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Tag: IBM i
AS/400 Shield In From The Start!
As IBM i – AS/400 approaches it’s 35-year celebration the Shield team have nurtured the story from the start. 1994 London England, Midrange EXPO. Chris Hird presenting: Disaster Recovery versus High Availability – Common Europe. […]
Product Announcement : AAG – Nagios Monitoring for IBM i
Press Release : Issued May 2023 (Toronto) In September 2022 Shield Advanced Solutions celebrated the significant milestone, 25 years of providing Availability for the IBM i (and predecessors). At that time, a new product roll-out […]
Getting the source IP address using inet_ntop()
We had a problem with a client system where some HA4i jobs would end abnormally due to a request to the TCP/IP port being incorrectly formed. We need to be able to find out what […]
JOBSCDE check in AAG
We have been busy adding all of our internal systems to the AAG monitoring solution when we noticed that the job we run through the job scheduler for taking the backups had not run for […]
Seiden Groups PHP Community Plus and Easycom
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 […]
Returning Pushover acknowledgements to Nagios
One of the original user or our AAG product wanted to know if we could add a new feature to AAG based on his experiences with the notifications sent via Pushover. He was seeing a […]
Monitoring the IBM i with Nagios.

Using AAG to monitor your HA4i solution will ensure your replication is operating smoothly. With the ability to view the status and history across all replication elements, an informed admin will be able to see […]
Moving backups from NFS to FTP
We previously mentioned how we had moved from a tape backup to using the free IBM backup application (GO BACKUP) to using the NFS capability to move IMGCLG entries to our remote NAS. Initially everything […]
Yet more from AAG
The initial release of AAG has only just made the rounds and yet we already have some new features that we are adding. With the first couple of installs underway we are finding new features […]