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Revisiting Nagios to monitor IBM i

It’s been a while since I played with Nagios but my son had recently shown me the Cacti plugin that works with Nagios and it was cool enough that I decided to get Nagios up and running again. I have … Continue reading

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A little Linux success

After ranting about how difficult it was to install Linux on the blade (vs IBM i), I was hoping I’d get some quick resolution.  However, the scenario ended up like this: The VIOS folks tossed it over the wall to … Continue reading

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The easiest partition on a JS12 blade (is NOT Linux)

A few months back I participated in the IBM i 7.1 beta program and I absolutely marveled at how ridiculously simple it was to install i5/OS on a new partition.  Create the partition, activate it, use Operations Console to connect, … Continue reading

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Out of the woods

The blade has now been running 5 days without a hitch so I am thinking that I have finally gotten a stable JS12.  The i partition has been running successfully and I just installed SLES 11 last night.  I am … Continue reading

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