We mentioned in a recent post that we had built an automated process to find any PTF’s associated with a security bulletin issued for the IBM i/OS that were missing from your system and download […]
Category: Security
Security Bulletin PTF’s – Automated download
As part of our AAG product we have been looking at how we can make the security bulletin checks easy so that users can get their systems status with respect to security exposures announced by […]
Problem with SNDPTFORD on hosted LPAR’s
We are running and IBM i hosting IBM i LPAR’s environment that we use for all of our development. The setup works perfectly for our purposes and even though we have since created a VIOS […]
Nagios is monitoring the IBM i.
In a recent Post we mentioned that we were working away on a new Nagios build that would form the base for our Nagios monitoring for the IBM i, well we are now very close […]
SMS from IBM i for Monitoring
We have been looking at the Nagios monitoring solution for the last few weeks and wanted to add some way of sending SMS alerts out to phones for critical events that require immediate notification. Nagios […]
Connecting to External Mail Server
The HA4i product has the ability to send emails through port 25 which is the standard non secured SMTP port. The problem with this is some servers do not allow connection via this port unless […]
HA4i gains new features using Let’s ‘C’ technology
We have previously posted about how to connect to a remote web server from your IBM i using both secure and non-secure sockets as part of a series of open source snippets (Let’s ‘C’) we […]
Let’s ‘C’ using TLS to the web.
Its been a long few weeks since the last real techie post. We had a number of issues with the Secure Sockets program talking to our externally hosted website which took a lot of debugging […]
Let’s ‘C’ integration with security
The previous post started a Server process which could receive ASCII based input, although it was pretty limited in terms of what it did it did show some of the basics required to build a […]
System and Software for journaling system objects patent EP 1559019 A1
To view the above patent please click here. Why the interest My interest was peaked by a recent LinkedIn comment about how using the Audit Journal to capture replication requests was a poor design choice. […]