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Press Release

New TCP/IP Monitor

For Immediate Release

NORTHWEST INDIANA/CHICAGOLAND, December 1997--DDL Systems, Inc. announces TCP/IP monitoring from within the ACO PAGER™ Message Alert System. The TCP/IP Monitor is a new feature that will detect the up/down status of devices connected to your TCP/IP network. If your System i is connected to the Internet, you can detect the status of virtually any device in the world. You define the host names to PING, and the TCP/IP Monitor will check the devices at regular intervals. If a device fails to respond, the TCP/IP Monitor will forward a message to a monitored message queue. As a result, the Message Monitor will perform the specific user-defined action such as paging a Network Administrator or notifying an Enterprise Automation System.

The new TCP/IP monitor is also a great new way to monitor and perform heart-beat functions from your System i to Command/Post. Command/Post resides on a specific IP port and can be PING’ed by the ACO PAGER™ TCP/IP Monitor. The resulting responses are then sent to a monitored message queue, and once received, any user-defined action can be performed to communicate the event to datacenter professionals. Specific TCP system messages (e.g. "TCP3206 - No response from host COMMANDPOST" or TCP3210 "Response received from host COMMANDPOST") can be monitored and easily customized to meet your specific requirements.

The TCP/IP Monitor can be set up to regularly schedule the PING operations (e.g. every 10 minutes, each hour etc.), executed by Command/Post automation scripts periodically, or run as a result of receiving a specific message in the ACO PAGER™ Message Alert System. In fact, the ACOTCPPING command can be incorporated into any user command/program or set up in the System i job scheduling system to perform the TCP/IP status check.

System Requirements

Your system may require installation of IBM PTF’s to ensure proper operation of the ACO products. Several important IBM PTF’s are required to properly run certain SQL statements based on the installed version of IBM i 6.1 (and i5/OS). These PTF’s are included in the latest version of the database group PTF for each respective release.

IBM i 6.1 required PTF's (not included in cumulative package)
SI38393	See APAR SE41176

IBM i5/OS 5.4 required PTF's (not included in cumulative package)
None

We STRONGLY recommend that you put in place a process to regularly obtain (and apply) the latest cumulative PTF, HIPER group PTF, and database group PTF packages to your System i (and AS/400) system(s).

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Hardware Requirements
Requires one standard System i V.24 SDLC communications line and one ECS (or Hayes® compatible) modem (or a properly configured SMTP e-mail connection to the Internet). Works with all alphanumeric and two-way pagers, properly equipped cellular phones, and smartphones (like BlackBerry®).

Software Requirements
ACO PAGER™, ACO NET™, ACO ESI™, and ACO CLIENT™ execute on System i® systems (all models) running V5R4M0 (or higher). ACO Client™ requires WebSphere® Application Server 6.1 (or higher), WebSphere® Application Server - Express, or any Java 1.4 (or higher) compliant web application server like Apache. ACO ESI™ requires a separately licensed copy of ACO PAGER™ and a separately licensed copy of one of the following enterprise systems; IBM Tivoli Monitoring® 6.2 (or higher) or IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus® 7.3 (or higher).

Notice: The enterprise system software may also require the purchase of other hardware and licensed software. This hardware and software is available from IBM (or other business partners) at an additional fee and is not included in the purchase of the ACO ESI™ software product.

ACO ESI™ optionally monitors your network connected Windows® servers using a Windows compliant software agent. The Windows® agent software is available for purchase (at a nominal fee) from one of our business partners. Monitoring your Windows servers does not require the installation (or use) of an enterprise system software product (e.g. IBM Tivoli Monitoring®).

Contact a sales representative at 866-559-0800 option 1 or send e-mail to sales@ddlsystems.com for more information.

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