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March 2022

NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.5 Release | Cross-Datacenter HA Monitoring

Unlock business benefits by monitoring your VMware‘s High Availability infrastructure. Secure, protect, and manage your VMware environment and digital workspaces based on advanced analytics. The NiCE VMware Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager provides a complete and easy-to-set-up VMware monitoring suite. Auto-Discovery, out-of-the-box metrics, graphs, reports, and enriched alert content help you spot and solve issues before they affect the system.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Salesforce dashboard

In our latest Dashboard Fridays episode we showcase this sample Salesforce metrics dashboard built using SquaredUp. Pulling data from Salesforce, this dashboard provides visibility of new business performance for the entire company. Accessed individually or viewed on an office wallboard – all employees from Engineering, Marketing, Sales and Finance can stay up to date with latest sales performance data.

Troubleshooting SCOM 2022 Teams Integration

When we were setting SCOM 2022 Teams integration in our environment these are some of the issues and fixes we discovered. For the full setup guide for SCOM 2022, or if you are looking for integrations for older versions of SCOM (2012 R2+) or more functionality, such as bi-directional sync, check out our blog on ‘How does SCOM 2022’s native Microsoft Teams Integration Work?’

SCOM 2022 - New Delegated Admin Role Customisation Function

Possibly the most anticipated feature of SCOM 2022 is Delegated Administrators! It’s not the shiniest of features but it has long been a pain point of SCOM admins, which have only ever been able to use three pre-defined roles to grant to users (plus read only). In SCOM 2022 you now have the ability to create Delegated Administrators, which overcomes some of the pain points previously felt with rigid roles and permissions.

Dashboard Fridays: Log Analytics VM Updates

Join Adam Kinniburgh in this latest Dashboard Fridays episode, in which he showcases this VM Updates dashboard, built with the WebAPI tile for the CE and SCOM editions. Since there is a native connection to the Log Analytics workspace in the Azure edition, here it is created using the native Logs tile. This dashboard surfaces key metric data for Virtual Machines, regardless of where the servers are hosted.

Dashboard Fridays: Log Analytics VM Insights

Join Adam Kinniburgh in this latest Dashboard Fridays episode, in which he showcases a Log Analytics VM Insights dashboard. This dashboard, built with the WebAPI tile for the CE and SCOM editions of SquaredUp, surfaces key metric data for Virtual Machines, regardless of where the servers are hosted. In this short video, we'll demonstrate how this dashboard was built using SquaredUp dashboards, the challenges it solves, and how you can easily replicate it in your own environment.