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Press Release
Announcing Support for Windows®

ACO PAGER™ centralizes Windows® system, application, and security events on your System i® and performs automation and notification functions.
For Immediate Release

NORTHWEST INDIANA/CHICAGOLAND, June 1999--DDL Systems, Inc. announces support for Windows®. Now, our System i® Systems Management software can monitor Windows® event logs that allows automation of performance, network, system, application, security events and more. With the industry focus on client server and e-business, the Windows® operating system has quickly become another mission-critical component of your datacenter. Managing the complexities of these heterogeneous computer systems are becoming increasingly important to the success of your business.

Windows® event logs are very similar to the system operator message queue on the System i®. They contain important information regarding the health and status of your servers. Specifically, Windows® categorizes the events into three different log files:
• Application logs.
• System logs.
• Security logs.

Each log file contains information similar to that contained within a typical message on the System i (e.g. system name, user, message id, message type, date/time stamp, and message text). You create a new server message queue on the System i® to contain the Windows® event messages and start an ACOPAGER™ Message Monitor for this new message queue. Windows® event log messages are routed to the server message queue and the ACOPAGER™ Message Monitors perform automation activities just like any other monitored message.You can specify action sets for each Windows® server message queue to send pager, e-mail, break messages, and run commands (or action scripts) based on the specific (or generic) characteristics of each event.

Click here (existing customers only) to view online the simple instructions for setting up ACO PAGER™ and Windows® to use the above features. This page requires a user id and password.
System Requirements
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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.

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IBM i 6.1 required PTF's (not included in cumulative package)
 SI38393  See APAR SE41176
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IBM i5/OS 5.4 required PTF's (not included in cumulative package)
 None
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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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All DDL Systems enterprise systems management products earn IBM's "Ready for Power Systems" validation. Learn more about this IBM validation and what it means to your business.
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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®).
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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).

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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.
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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.
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1ptrans.gif (44 bytes) 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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