May 22, 2022

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 was released on this years' Red Hat Summit. Our team of developers have worked quickly to test our software on this newest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as on CentOS Stream 9. Also, Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8.6 was released, and similar versions for Oracle Linux, Alma Linux and Rocky Linux. we're happy to announce that UNIX Health Check now supports all these new versions.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9


November 17, 2021

Red Hat 8.5 released

Version 8.5 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been released. Along with that, similar releases of CentOS, CentOS Stream, Oracle Linux, Alma Linux and Rocky Linux have been made available. The UNIX Health Check team has thoroughly tested its software with all available new OS releases, and updated the software, where necessary. As such, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 is now supported by UNIX Health Check.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 released


August 18, 2021

Rocky Linux 8.4

Rocky Linux 8.4, from the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation is now available (GA). Since this is the first Rocky Linux GA release, it's a significant milestone.

When Red Hat announced that it would be shifting its focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS stream, it stunned developers all over the world. Rocky Linux (and AlmaLinux) were born as a result of this decision.

Rocky Linux intends to act as a downstream build, similar to CentOS, creating updates after they have been added by the upstream distributor, rather than before. It is an open enterprise community operating system. Gregory Kurtzer, one of CentOS's founders, is one of the main developers.

Rocky Linux 8.4 is now fully supported by UNIX Health Check. We have tested this new operating system thoroughly and we've updated our software to function correctly on it.

Do you work with CentOS 8? If you want, you can opt to convert to Rocky Linux 8.4. Simply follow these instructions on Github to migrate correctly. Please make sure to create a snapshot (or a backup) first, before migrating.

Rocky Linux


May 5, 2021

CentOS Stream 8 support

CentOS Stream 8 has been added to the list of supported operating systems for UNIX Health Check.

The support for CentOS Linux 8, as a rebuild of RHEL 8, will end at the end of 2021. CentOS Stream continues after that date, serving as the upstream (development) branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. To learn more about CentOS Stream, please visit: https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/.

CentOS Stream


April 1, 2021

AlmaLinux support

For those who can't wait, we have good news: AlmaLinux OS has officially been released on March 30th, 2021. To celebrate the launch, AlmaLinux has been added to the list of supported Linux versions for UNIX Health Check!

In December 2020, Red Hat announced that they will shift focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. The focus on Stream should help the diverse group of large business users to quickly integrate the software into production environments. It also means that CentOS8 as we know it, will be End-of-Life by the end of this year.

After the announcement, CloudLinux developers decided to build AlmaLinux. It was created as a replacement for CentOS. AlmaLinux is a 1:1 compatible fork of RHEL and CloudLinux is committed to provide support until at least 2029.

Tell us about your AlmaLinux experience! We are curious about your findings and professional opinion about AlmaLinux. Please let us know and send us an email at hello@unixhealthcheck.com.

If you have any questions for UNIX Health Check about AlmaLinux, or if you need additional information, you can always open a support ticket at support@unixhealthcheck.com.

AlmaLinux


May 2, 2020

Support for RHEL 7.8 and 8.2 added

After careful testing, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version of UNIX Health Check now includes support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8, and also for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, which were recently released by Red Hat.



March 25, 2020

Using files to include & exclude check scripts

The latest version of UNIX Health Check (both for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and for AIX), now support specifying text files with lists of scripts to either include or exclude.

If you're familiar with UNIX Health Check's command line options (See: Using options with the checkall master script), then you probably know that you may use the "-s" option to specify the check scripts to be included, and you can use the "-E" option to exclude specific check scripts.

However, specifying a lot of check scripts on the command line can become time-consuming and messy, as reported by some of our clients. As such, from now on you may also specify text files that contain lists of check scripts to be included and/or excluded. You may also mix check scripts and text files containing lists of check scripts.

For example, the following is now possible:

Create a text file that contains all the scripts you wish to exclude, specifying each script on a separate line, for example in file /tmp/excludelist:
# cat /tmp/excludelist
checkzip.ksh
checkzombies.ksh
Next, specify this filename using the "-E" option to exclude the scripts:
# ./checkall.ksh -v -E /tmp/excludelist
As mentioned before, you may also mix check scripts and text files listing check scripts. For example, the following will work:
# ./checkall.ksh -v -E /tmp/excludelist,/tmp/excludelist2,checkcpuspeed.ksh
To use this new feature, please make sure to download the latest version of UNIX Health Check.

This is an example of how our organization listens to possible improvements to our software!

January 27, 2020

Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog listing

UNIX Health Check completed the Red Hat certification process of its product, UNIX Health Check for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and is now listed in the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog.

Red Hat launched the new Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog in October 2019 to better feature and promote Red Hat certified products. The Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog is the official source for discovering and learning more about the Red Hat Ecosystem of Red Hat and certified third-party products and services. Through the newly enhanced catalog, customers are able to easily explore and learn about Red Hat certified product(s) in order to build solutions and run their businesses.

Look us up at https://catalog.redhat.com/software/applications/detail/3404681

November 11, 2019

Support for RHEL 8.1 added

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux version of UNIX Health Check now includes support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1, which was recently released by Red Hat.

September 4, 2019

Support for RHEL 7.7 added

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux version of UNIX Health Check now includes support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7. RHEL 7.7 was released by Red Hat in August. UNIX Health Check for Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been thoroughly tested on RHEL 7.7 and passed all tests. The same applies to Oracle Linux version 7.7 and Scientific Linux 7.7.

CentOS 7.7 is not yet available. The same is true for version 8.0 updates of Scientific Linux and CentOS. Version 8.0 of Oracle Linux has been released by Oracle in July this year and is also currently supported by UNIX Health Check. We will watch out for upcoming releases and update the UNIX Health Check software when these updates become available.

May 16, 2019

IBM Marketplace

UNIX Health Check has been listed on the IBM Marketplace website.

Come and visit us at: https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/unix-health-check


May 13, 2019

RHEL 8.0 support included

UNIX Health Check has completed testing of its software for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0, which was released by Red Hat on May 7th, 2019. As such, UNIX Health Check now supports running its software on RHEL 8 systems.

Even though version 8.0 is now supported by UNIX Health Check, we do recommend that upgrades of production RHEL systems be postponed until Red Hat releases at least version 8.1 or 8.2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We generally recommend using the N-1 latest version, meaning: do not use the very latest version of a piece of software, but the version before that, unless there is a very specific reason for doing so. Any dot-zero release, or any software just recently released for that matter, might still contain some serious bugs, which are most likely to be resolved in the next major update (version 8.1). By keeping your systems at level N-1, you guard your Linux systems against any undiscovered bugs.


March 27, 2019

Software available as RPM package

As of today, UNIX Health Check software is also available in the format of a RPM package. You can now use regular "rpm" commands to install, upgrade, remove and query UNIX Health Check software installations, making it easier to manage the software installations on your systems. The RPM packaged software is available both for Red Hat Enterprise Linux based systems, as well as AIX. The RPM packages are digitally signed, and you can verify the integrity of the downloaded RPM packages using a GPG key.

Besides in the format of RPM packages, our software is also still available as TAR file images, allowing you to choose the software distribution format of your preference. For detailed instructions, please refer to our UNIX Health Check documentation page on this website.

Installing UNIX Health Check software using a RPM package.


December 4, 2018

Support for RHEL 7.6 added

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux version of UNIX Health Check now includes support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6, Scientific Linux 7.6, Oracle Linux 7.6 and CentOS 7.6.1810. Our software has been updated for these new releases and has been thoroughly tested as well.

October 26, 2018

New demo versions available


We have updated our demo versions for the UNIX Health Check software, for both the Red Hat and AIX versions. From now on you can download demo versions that include the first 100 checks of the full versions of our software. This will provide you a very good idea of what our software can do for you.

June 10, 2018

GDPR compliance

Due to the new data protection regulation that is applicable in the European Union as of 25 May 2018, we have updated our Privacy Policy in order to provide you with clearer and more specific information as to the processing of your personal data and your rights in that respect.

May 2, 2018

Support for Power9 hardware added

IBM has released new Power hardware in the POWER9 range, and UNIX Health Check for AIX version has been updated to support these latest additions to the IBM hardware portfolio.

April 12, 2018

Support for RHEL 7.5 added

Support and appropriate updates for the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 7.5, has been added for UNIX Health Check, so you may now also use UNIX Health Check on your RHEL 7.5 systems.

April 9, 2018

Two Thousand Check Scripts

As we continue our effort to improve our software on a daily basis, we've now surpassed the mark of 2,000 check scripts that can be run from our combined UNIX Health Check products for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AIX. That means over 2,000 checks can be run by our software, ensuring your Linux and UNIX systems are stable, secure, following best practices, and are simply configured to the best of their abilities.

And no, we're not stopping here. We'll continue on our path to ensure UNIX Health Check is and remains the best health check software for Linux and Unix available.

February 13, 2018

Spectre and Meltdown updates

As you are probably well aware, 2018 ha started with two major vulnerabilities impacting almost all the processors made int he last 20 years. Perhaps you already read a lot about it in detail on various websites. They are called the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilites, and are similar, but not entirely the same.


Meltdown vulnerability allows a program to access the kernel’s private memory areas. This memory can contain the secrets (including passwords) of other programs and the operating system. Spectre also deals with kernel memory but it is slightly different. This vulnerability actually allows a malicious program to trick another process running on the same system to leak their private information.

The way to resolve these vulnerabilities is by updating both the firmware of the computer system, as well as loading Operating System updates. The vendors we work closely with, IBM and Red Hat, have both released various firmware and Operating System updates. The UNIX Health Check software was recently updated to include various checks to ensure your UNIX computer systems do indeed have these updates installed.

Most operating system updates to address the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities have been released by their respective Operating System vendors, but please be aware that many hardware vendors are still working to patch their firmware, as they rely on third-party CPU vendors (such as Intel) to provide updated code to mitigate these vulnerabilities completely. As such, here at UNIX Health Check we'll continue to monitor the situation, and update our software accordingly, as new Operating System and firmware levels become available.

September 26, 2017

Support for CentOS 7.4 and more

UNIX Health Check's version for Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been validated as well to function correctly on the latest release of CentOS, Oracle Linux and Scientific Linux, version 7.4.

September 6, 2017

PowerHA 7.2 support update

UNIX Health Check for AIX is now also supported for PowerHA SystemMirror 7.2! The UNIX Health Check for AIX software has been successfully tested and updated for use with PowerHA 7.2.

It is our goal to always keep our software up-to-date with any new AIX related software releasees, and updating the support of UNIX Health Check for AIX for PowerHA SystemMirror 7.2 showcases that we indeed do this. UNIX Health Check for AIX also recently received many updates regarding other AIX related software and firmware/microcode.

August 16, 2017

UNIX Health Check supports RHEL 7.4

UNIX Health Check extends support for it's UNIX Health Check for Red Hat Enterprise Linux product to the latest version of RHEL, version 7.4.

As always, you can expect from us to stay up-to-date to the latest changes on AIX and Red Hat. We'll make sure to incorporate any new releases within our health check software. Red Hat has released version 7.4 of its popular operating system on August 1st, 2017.

June 6, 2017

UNIX Health Check website launched

As of today, the new website for UNIX Health Check is available. Both websites aixhealthcheck.com and redhathealthcheck.com will now redirect to the new website called unixhealthcheck.com.

The new website represents more accurately what our organization stands for: Creating the best health check software for different UNIX versions and brands.

June 1, 2017

Red Hat version available

The entire UNIX Health Check team is very proud to announce the release of their latest product:

Unix Health Check for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Now the same functionality of UNIX Health Check for AIX becomes available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux and Scientific Linux systems, something that many of our customers have asked us to provide.

UNIX Health Check for Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers the exact same options and features as UNIX Health Check for AIX.

If you're familiar with the AIX version, you'll find that it will be very easy for you to also use it on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

UNIX Health Check for Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 through 7.3, and similar versions of CentOS, Oracle Linux and Scientific Linux. The Fedora Linux distribution, even though being closely related to Red Hat, however, is not supported.

Considerable time and effort went in to developing, programming, designing and regression testing UNIX Health Check for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to ensure our software is reliable, fast and creates valuable output for our customers, and works on various Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions. And just like UNIX Health Check for AIX, a demo version is available for customers. This demo version includes the first 50 checks of the full version of UNIX Health Check for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

For a limited time, we are offering a discounted rate for licensing UNIX Health Check for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as an introductory rate. A discount of 20% is also available if you license both AIX and Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions of UNIX Health Check at the same time. And if you are an existing customer using the AIX version, and you also wish to start using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version, then please contact us and we'll make sure you can benefit from the same discounted rate.

April 2, 2017

Products renamed

With the introduction of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version of our software, we will be renaming our software. AIX Health Check will be renamed to UNIX Health Check for AIX. And the new version for Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be called UNIX Health Check for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

January 7, 2017

PowerHA/XD and GLVM support

AIX Health Check now supports systems that run PowerHA/XD and use GLVM. PowerHA/XD is for clusters that span long distances (XD = Extended Distance), and GLVM is short for Geographic Logical Volume Management, and is used for clusters that need to have shared storage, and where synchronizing data over storage fiber is not an option due to long distances between cluster nodes. GLVM uses network connectivity to synchronize shared logical volumes and shared file systems instead.

New check scripts have been added to AIX Health Check in the cluster category. An easy way to run the check scripts in the cluster category, is by using the -C option:
# checkall.ksh -C cluster

Customers with a valid license for AIX Health Check may download the latest version of AIX Health Check to benefit from this newly added functionality.

September 19, 2016

IBM Edge discount

Representatives of UNIX Health Check will be present at the IBM Edge conference in Las Vegas in September 2016.

You can now benefit from a special conference discount: Order by November 1, 2016 for a $450 conference savings on the regular price, when you mention "Outthink Status Quo" while ordering.

January 20, 2016

Support for AIX 7.2 announcement

Starting today, the UNIX Health Check team is happy to report that AIX 7.2 is supported as well within AIX Health Check. AIX 7.2 was released in December 2015 by IBM and includes many new exciting features. AIX Health Check has been successfully tested on AIX 7.2.


If you have licensed AIX Health Check, please make sure to visit our download page to get the latest version that includes new updates for AIX 7.2.

April 1, 2015

1,200 checks and increased security

Although it's April fool's day today, we're not joking when we announce that we've reached the 1,200th check script included in AIX Health Check.

If you have licensed AIX Health Check, please make sure to visit our download page to get the latest version.

Amongst the improvements are many security checks that will assist you in improving your AIX systems' security.

January 13, 2015

Categories of scripts

In our effort to continuously improve our UNIX Health Check products, a new feature was recently included, that provides the possibility to run categories or groups of scripts through both AIX Health Check and Red Hat Health Check. There may often be times that you do not wish to run all the check scripts included in our products (simply because there so many of them!), but wish to focus on a certain aspect of the server instead, such as security.

Now you can do so by using the new -C option that has been added to both Red Hat Health Check and AIX Health Check. It allows you to specify a category of scripts to be run. Several available categories of scripts exist. For example, you can run all security check scripts, or all storage check scripts, or all check scripts in the backup category. You can review a full list of the available categories in our online documentation.

August 13, 2014

POWER8 support

The validation of AIX Health Check for POWER8 systems has been completed successfully, and starting today AIX Health Check will also support the new line of scale-out POWER8 systems, that have recently been released by IBM, such as the S814, S822 and S824.

New in the latest version of AIX Health Check is support for SMT8, as well as support for the latest technology levels of AIX 7.1, such as Technology Level 3, including the latest Service Packs.

August 11, 2014

1,100 checks

And just 4 months later, the UNIX Health Check team announces the 1,100th check script to be included in AIX Health Check. Although we're continuously improving our products by including more and more check scripts, the cost of our products remains unchanged, creating more value to our customers.

May 14, 2014

PowerHA 7.1 support

AIX Health Check is now also supported for PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1. We have completed all our validation steps; performed all the necessary tests on countless of clustered systems in various configurations (even clusters halfway migration from PowerHA 6.1 to PowerHA 7.1); and we completed all required updates to our software, to allow AIX Health Check to properly scan and check PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 clusters.

Please note that PowerHA 6.1 is moving out of IBM support on April 30th, 2015. At that time, you'll either need extended support for PowerHA 6.1 (equals additional cost!) or have migrated all your clusters to PowerHA 7.1.

April 11, 2014

1,000 Checks

Today, we're celebrating the 1,000th check script to be included in AIX Health Check. You can now literally run 1,000 checks in a few minutes on any AIX system, and get a wonderful report on the performance, security, configuration, and any issues on your AIX system.

April 10, 2014

OpenSSL Heartbleed bug

You may have heard about the Heartbleed bug that occurred in OpenSSL. And you may be wondering if any of your UNIX systems are impacted by it?

UNIX Health Check makes it easy for you. Our latest version (version 14.04.10 and up) includes a check to make sure your UNIX systems are secure. Another good example of how UNIX Health Check stays up to date with the latest developments in UNIX security.

For more information, visit our blog at unixhealthcheck.com/blog.

February 25, 2014

Global presence

UNIX Health Check currently has a global presence across all 6 continents. From Sydney to Reykjavik, and from Lima to Moscow, our software is in use with many of our customers across the globe to help them improve their UNIX systems' performance, security and stability.


UNIX Health Check customer locations

May 1, 2013

900 checks

Today we're happy to announce that AIX Health Check has reached its 900th check. You can now run 900 checks on an AIX system in just a matter of minutes, and get a full report on your AIX system's health.

If you'd like to review the latest updates to AIX Health Check, please visit the overview of most recent updates to AIX Health Check on our website. The same information can also be found in the CHANGES file that is included in the AIX Health Check distribution.

And always make sure to download the latest version of AIX Health Check.

April 28, 2013

POWER7+ certification

Today, we've completed the certification of AIX Health Check for the new POWER7+ hardware, recently released by IBM.

January 31, 2013

IBM Business Partner

UNIX Health Check is now an official IBM Business Partner as an ISV, an Independent Software Vendor.

December 6, 2012

WPAR support

AIX Health Check now includes WPAR (Workload Partition) support. You can use AIX Health Check either on systems running 1 or more WPARs, or you can use it inside a system WPAR itself. With the recent introduction of Virtual I/O Server support, this again extends the capability of doing health checks on different configurations of AIX.

October 23, 2012

XML output

Starting with version 12.10.23 of AIX Health Check, besides HTML, CSV and TEXT output formats, you can now also generate output files in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format using the -x flag. XML is a markup language that helps structure data, is both human and machine readable, and is often used to transfer data from one system to another. XML files generated by AIX Health Check can be used to load data into any other application or database, or it can be viewed in a tree-like form using a XML reader:


XML tree of AIX Health Check output displayed using Foxe XML viewer.
For a larger image, click here.

October 18, 2012

IBM Power Systems Technical University discount



Representatives of UNIX Health Check will be present at the Dublin and Las Vegas versions of the 2012 IBM Power Systems Technical University in October 2012. Because of that, you can now benefit from a special conference discount on AIX Health Check: Order by November 2, 2012 for a $300 conference savings on the regular price. For more information, download our flyer:

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September 10, 2012

Introducing VIOS support

As requested by many of our customers, we've now included support for Virtual I/O servers in AIX Health Check. Included are several checks for VIOS systems as well; but stay tuned for more updates to come as our creative team is developing and testing out many more checks for Virtual I/O servers.

Be sure to download the latest version of AIX Health Check.

August 15, 2012

750 checks

In less than 1 year time, AIX Health Check has grown from 450 checks to 750 checks. Seven hundred and fifty items that can, and most importantly, that should be checked on an AIX system on a regular basis. And, we won't stop here. Our development team is working consistently on adding new checks on a regular basis, and testing AIX Health Check to the fullest on different system configurations.

August 10, 2012

Performance Improvements realized using AIX Health Check

By using AIX Health Check, significant performance improvements can be achieved. Not only will AIX Health Check notify you where performance bottlenecks on your AIX system may exist, such as disk parameters that are incorrectly set, DNS configuration issues or storage adapter speed settings that may help improve disk throughput, but also the overall performance of an AIX system will improve, by applying the best practices suggested in the AIX Health Check report.

The following is the result of an AIX Health Check exercise with one of our clients, where we were asked to showcase AIX Health Check. The system involved is a Power7 795, with 1280 GB memory and 256 processors. The initial run of AIX Health Check yielded the following results:



As you can see, 736 checks were run in 364 seconds, and the score was almost 92%. After making several improvements, as suggested in the AIX Health Check report, AIX Health Check report was run again on the same system, and yielded the following results:



Now, when the score of the system had improved to 99%, the same 736 checks could be run in only 126 seconds, in 66% less time. Although this doesn't constitute a true performance test, it does show that AIX is capable of running AIX Health Check a lot less time, if all best practices are applied. And it does prove as well that by not configuring and tuning your AIX system properly, that you may be wasting a lot of system performance.

February 28, 2012

AIX Health Check featured in IBM Systems Magazine

AIX Health Check is featured in the Solutions section of the March 2012 issue of IBM Systems Magazine:



URL: http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/power/productnews/AIX-Health-Check/

January 31, 2012

Automating the download of AIX Health Check

AIX Health Check is updated frequently, to make sure it remains fully up-to-date to the latest and greatest best practices for AIX systems. You can review the most recent updates to AIX Health Check here.

There's no need to download AIX Health Check on a regular basis to your desktop system, and then to manually transfer the software to your AIX systems. We understand that doing so, involves a lot of manual labor, especially if you're managing many AIX instances.

Instead, it is possible to download AIX Health Check directly to your AIX systems. And it is also possible to automate downloading the latest version through the use of a simple script.

If you own a valid license of AIX Health Check and you want to automate the manual task of downloading updates of AIX Health Check to your AIX systems, please be sure to check out this page for instructions on automating the download of AIX Health Check.

January 31, 2012

Demo version available

Did you know that you can download a demo versions of AIX Health Check and Red Hat Health Check on our website?

The demo version includes the first 50 checks of AIX Health Check and Red Hat Health Check. The full version of AIX Health Check consists of over 600 checks, and comes with a full year of maintenance and support, including the possibility of downloading the most recent update of AIX Health Check.

November 17, 2011

Number 560

Just a little over 2 months ago, we were excited to announce that AIX Health Check had reached its 450th check. Development and improvements however, did not come to a standstill. We pushed on, and we're now up to the 560th check. Yes, we achieved that in just 2 months' time. Many improvements were made, especially in the area of security, making AIX Health Check also a strong and robust tool to provide security guidelines for your AIX systems.

The average runtime of a full AIX Health Check scan on your systems did not change much. On average, AIX Health Check will run within just a few minutes. Some of the latest Power7 systems clocked in at 89 seconds. Some larger systems (with thousands of users and thousands of devices) can take up to 25 minutes to run. But then again, are your systems administrators capable of checking 560 items within 25 minutes?

If you'd like to review the latest updates to AIX Health Check, please visit the Overview of most recent updates to AIX Health Check on our website. The same information can also be found in the CHANGES file that is included in the AIX Health Check distribution.

October 2, 2011

AIX Health Check sample reports

We've generated some sample reports, for you to review. It includes reports generated in different formats, such as CSV, HTML, XML and general TEXT. It also includes different options used to run AIX Health Check.

Please have a look at them at http://aixhealthcheck.com/samples.

September 4, 2011

Number 450

AIX Health Check is continuously being developed. This has resulted in the 450th check being added to the comprehensive collection of checks that make up AIX Health Check software.

Traditional monitoring has provided a solid starting point for identification of issues. But as environments become more compartmentalized and interdependent, monitoring must become more pro-active in nature.

Since as much as 80 percent of infrastructure problems are related to configuration changes, organizations cannot rely solely on static views of configuration. This is especially true if change-control processes are not well enforced or communicated across operational boundaries.

When we look at how organizations are attempting to reduce costs and build agility into operations, several initiatives are prevalent that must drive change in systems management thinking. AIX Health Check is such an initiative. Continuously checking the configuration of AIX systems ensures proper configuration and aids stability and reliability.

July 17, 2011

Let's talk about results

AIX Health Check was honored with the prestigious 2011 Transform IT Simplification Award by CES.

"AIX Health Check exhibits excellence in their solution such as efficiency, ease of use, increased system utilization, commitment to excellence, innovative business and web-based solutions. AIX Health Check was evaluated on how well their solution demonstrates business innovation, supports outstanding achievement and highlights value to their company, end users or others."



June 12, 2011

Health Checks in the Healthcare Industry

More and more of our customers are members of the healthcare industry. That's easy to understand. Healthcare organizations have a higher-than-normal need for their systems to perform optimally, especially important when AIX systems are used where lives could be at stake, and federal regulations are prevalent. AIX Health Check supports healthcare organizations by providing stability for their AIX systems.

AIX Health Check is software aimed at proactively detecting configuration abnormalities or other issues that may keep AIX and PowerHA clustered systems from performing optimally. Key benefits:
  • Based on best practices and years of experience supporting AIX systems.
  • Improves AIX system health by automatically scanning the system for any known issues, and providing suggestions to resolve any issue found.
  • Runs hundreds of checks in minutes.
  • Reduces manual checking and monitoring systems.
  • Avoids system outages by discovering misconfigurations pro-actively.
  • Can be automated to run at set intervals.
  • Verifies AIX systems audit and federal regulations compliancy.
  • Inventories the configuration of the AIX systems.
  • Creates reports in CSV, text or HTML format and is capable of sending email reports.
  • Helps to standardize AIX system configurations.
  • Educates AIX admins on AIX best practices.