TFH Volume: 32 Issue: 61 Archives

A Smorgasbord Of Power Systems Stuff

September 19, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is usually pretty quiet on the IT front in the wake of the American Labor Day holiday, especially with a lot of European countries also having bank holidays around that time and many schools just starting back up again. Here in 2022, it is no different, although IBM did uncharacteristically launch the full subscription entry Power S1014 server aimed at IBM i customers on September 6.

In any event, in the weeks surrounding the holiday, Big Blue did a bunch of stuff relating to the Power Systems platform and we want to tell you about it so you stay …
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The Security Awareness Of People Is The Important Firewall In IT

September 19, 2022 John Fehr

Your company can have the best firewalls, the best intrusion detection and protection systems, and the best sensors and filters all wrapped around the IT organization. Your company can have the IBM i platform, legendary for its rock-solid security, locked down with the tightest security, and everyone can change their strong passwords frequently. Your company can have administrators using tools to monitor exit points and the Integrated File System that can be a breeding ground for viruses. Your company can have firewalls and antivirus software installed on every desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone that comes in contact with your infrastructure. …
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Pandora FMS Log Monitoring Solution Gets IBM i Hooks

September 19, 2022 Alex Woodie

Pandora FMS, an open source log monitoring solution that has been in use for decades, is being integrated with IBM i, the software’s commercial backer announced last week. Thanks to a partnership between Pandora FMS and the French company M81, organizations that use the software can add IBM i into the monitoring mix.

Pandora FMS, short for Flexible Monitoring System, is an open source tool for consuming and analyzing server and network logs. The utility, which was written in PHP and runs on Linux, uses agents (developed in Perl) to keep an eye on servers running Linux, Windows, and Unix …
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As I See It: Different Yet the Same

September 19, 2022 Victor Rozek

For all of you who must discover,
for all who seek to understand
In having left the path of others,
you find a very special hand

— Christy Moore, Bright Blue Rose

It is among the most common of human yearnings: the desire to see oneself as special and distinct from the herd. Individualism, coupled with exceptionalism has long been ingrained in American mythology. The model endures, even as it evolves over time, as each generation rebels against the prior in an attempt to create its own unique identity.

But it’s becoming increasingly difficult to claim uniqueness when we live …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 38

September 19, 2022 Doug Bidwell

It is a quiet week for PTFs, with two security vulnerabilities for the IBM i platform and not much else.

We will start with Security Bulletin: Samba for IBM i is vulnerable to attacker obtaining sensitive information due to a memory leak with SMB1 requests (CVE-2022-32742), which you can find out more about at this link. Here are the fixes:
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IBM i Release	5770-SS1	PTF Number	
                7.4		SI80816	
                7.3		SI80815
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And then there is Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty for IBM i is vulnerable to identity spoofing with authenticated user and ability to bypass security restrictions due …
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A Smorgasbord Of Power Systems Stuff

The Security Awareness Of People Is The Important Firewall In IT

Pandora FMS Log Monitoring Solution Gets IBM i Hooks

As I See It: Different Yet the Same

IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 38

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