Before we go into how we added Easycom for PHP on the IBM i to the Seiden Groups Community Plus edition, I would like to say thanks to Alan and his group for the effort […]
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Nagios Monitoring for IBM i Update
We are almost ready to start shipments of our new AAG (At A Glance) solution for monitoring the IBM i via Nagios. The product is composed of 2 elements, a Nagios Core configuration running on […]
Working away in the background
Thought I would add a quick post as we have not done any for some time. We have been working away on our next product that will interface with Nagios, the original idea of using […]
Calling an IBM i Service Program using Java.
Recently, we have been working on a project to pull information from the IBM i using java. In order to do most of the heavy lifting we decided to use the JTOpen package. Using their […]
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 […]
Nagios monitoring
We have been asked by a customer to help integrate monitoring of our HA4i software into the Nagios XI monitoring solution. Nagios XI is a paid offering that allows lots of your IT infrastructure to […]
Continuous Integration using Jenkins and More…
I recently attended an online meeting with the MAGIC user group which showed how to install and set up Jenkins on the IBM i for Continuous Integration purposes. The installation and configuration all seemed very […]
Long-standing Expertise!
As 2019 begins, we reflect on another accomplished year of Shield Advanced Solutions providing High Availability solutions for customers using IBM i! Known by the original release name as “AS/400”, the platform and its operating […]
PowerUp18 thoughts
We have finally caught up with things after the PowerUp18 conference in San Antonio, what a great conference we had. I was pleased to see that even though a lot of ISV’s have been merged […]
Let’s ‘C’ changed source
Found a problem with the exports in the Service Program QSRVSRC so updated to reflect the correct order. Not a major problem as most will be rebuilding all objects from scratch each time but if […]