Infrared360® At A Glance…Middleware Management Portal


Avada Software’s flagship product, Infrared360®, is an IT management portal providing total administration, monitoring, testing, auditing, analytics dashboards, and self-service for cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environments. Get secure, collaborative management of elements across your IT stack like Kafka®, IBM® MQ, IBM® ACE/IIB, ActiveMQ®, WebSphere®, JBoss®, and Tomcat® Application Servers, URLs, SOAP & REST-based web services, IBM® DataPower® and MQ Appliance.
Scott Treggiari2026-03-05T14:38:25-05:00March 5th, 2026|
IBM MQ RDQM Patching Guide: The hidden kernel-module dependency that can stop HA queue managers Why this IBM MQ RDQM Patching Guide exists RDQM makes IBM MQ highly available by using DRBD disk replication and a cluster stack (Pacemaker/Corosync). That’s great – until a routine RHEL patch window updates the Linux kernel.
Here’s the hidden dependency: RDQM relies on a DRBD kernel module that must be compatible with the running kernel. […]
Scott Treggiari2026-03-04T13:13:04-05:00March 3rd, 2026|
Security bulletin recap and upgrade checklist for IBM MQ Appliance 9.4 LTS and 9.4 CD
Key takeaways
Scott Treggiari2026-03-03T11:32:19-05:00March 3rd, 2026|
IBM MQ Console/REST API XSS vulnerability fixed: CVE-2025-12635 (DT457904)
IBM published a security bulletin describing how IBM MQ can be affected by a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty—the Liberty runtime IBM MQ uses to provide the IBM MQ Console and the IBM MQ REST API.1
The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-12635 and is described as improper validation of user-supplied input leading to an XSS […]
Scott Treggiari2026-03-04T13:14:08-05:00February 26th, 2026|
AI Agents vs. Monitoring Agents: Why the Difference Matters for IT Operations
If you’ve been following the AI headlines lately, you’ve probably seen “AI agents” everywhere—pitched as autonomous systems that perceive context, reason, plan, and take actions with minimal human intervention. The hype is real, but it’s also creating a very specific kind of confusion:
Enterprises already have strong opinions about “agents.” In IT operations, an “agent” has long meant installed […]
Infrared3602026-02-25T14:53:44-05:00February 25th, 2026|
Understanding the Recent IBM Tivoli Monitoring Java SDK Vulnerabilities
Recently, IBM published a security bulletin addressing multiple vulnerabilities within the IBM SDK Java Technology Edition that is bundled with various IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) components. Because these components are heavily relied upon for enterprise environment monitoring, understanding the scope of these vulnerabilities and applying the necessary patches is crucial for maintaining system integrity.
The core issue stems from five newly disclosed […]
Scott Treggiari2026-02-12T15:48:31-05:00February 11th, 2026|
IBM MQ 9.4.5: A practical upgrade for teams modernizing MQ (without breaking what already works) IBM MQ has a reputation for doing the unglamorous job extremely well: moving important data, exactly once, across messy enterprise realities. The IBM MQ 9.4.5 announcement (published February 3, 2026) signals something important about where MQ is headed next: more “Kubernetes-native by default,” more self-service operations, and tighter security/observability across hybrid estates.[1]
Rather […]
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