Introducing AAG’s New ChatGPT-Powered Monitoring Insights Modern monitoring systems are excellent at collecting data such as metrics, status checks, thresholds, etc… But when something “looks” wrong, the real work begins… digging through graphs, correlating signals, […]
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AAG Version 3.0 is here!
Press Release: issued January 2026 Toronto, Ontario – Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd is excited to announce the release of AAG 3.0, delivering 2–3x faster response times and dramatically reducing overhead on Nagios Servers. This release […]
Enhancing AAG with Passive Check Support: Smarter, Lighter, Cooperative Monitoring for IBM i and Nagios
IBM i systems don’t natively support passive checks because NRDP requires ASCII‑formatted Web API requests, while IBM i uses EBCDIC internally. That mismatch has historically prevented IBM i from participating fully in Nagios’ passive check […]
Unlocking Security Insights with IBM i Audit Journal Monitoring
The IBM i Audit Journal is a treasure trove of security data. It records thousands of events that reveal what’s happening on your system — from failed logins to changes in user authorities. The challenge […]
Shield Advanced Solutions Partners with Nagios Enterprises
We’re excited to announce our official partnership with Nagios Enterprises, the global leader in IT infrastructure monitoring! This collaboration strengthens Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd.’s ability to deliver comprehensive, scalable, and reliable monitoring solutions — all […]
Shield Advanced Solutions Announces AAG Version 3.0
We are pleased to announce that AAG Version 3.0 is now available to customers. This release delivers significant performance improvements, reducing overhead on the Nagios Server and helping organizations running tens of thousands of checks […]
Strengthening IBM i Security with Automated Authority Monitoring
Insider threats remain one of the most overlooked risks in enterprise security. According to the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 35% of breaches originate from within organizations. On IBM i systems, this risk is […]
Shield is now a Registered Nagios Partner:
We are excited to announce our partnership with Nagios, bringing the power of the Nagios XI platform to our At‑A‑Glance (AAG) Monitoring solution. This collaboration delivers seamless integration for the IBM i checks we provide, […]
Connecting NagiosXI to Grafana
We have implemented Grafana along with our Nagios plugin AAG, for quite some time. However, this was done using pnp4Nagios to capture the performance data from our checks and push them through to a PNP […]
EM4i gets a new feature
We have been aware of a limitation with the IBM provided monitors which can cause a number of issues when set up in a specific manner that can result in a noticeable increase in CPU […]