We are happy to announce that our widely popular free Ping Management Pack just got a community dashboard for SquaredUp. The dashboard is now available for download at SquaredUp Community site. The Ping Management Pack Dashboard includes one dashboard and one perspective. We would love to hear your feedback and listen to improvements to get this even better in the future.

After weeks of testing the latest release from VMware, VMware vSphere 7 is now supported by OpsLogix VMware Management Pack - starting from version 1.3.1724.0. VMware vSphere 7 introduced some new exciting features, such as native Kubernetes support and vSAN 7, as well as many other improvements.

It finally happened. Many of us thought that vSphere 7 would be announced during VMworld last fall, instead it became a series of “teasers” and strategy changes we had to read about ‘in between the lines’ for what was coming in vSphere 7. Now it’s been determined. Public release happens May 1, with a pre-release event on April 2. So what do we have to look forward to?

VMware vSAN is a core component for the delivery of your Software Defined Data Center. The newly added monitoring capabilities will support your IT-Operations with even better App-To-Cloud Visibility of your business-critical applications running in the VMware platform. When the new version of our Management Pack is available, a complete release note will be added with all the new exciting features. But for now, we can reveal some of the key components we monitor.

We are proud to announce that our SCOM ServiceNow Incident Connector has now been published in the Azure Marketplace. The OpsLogix SCOM ServiceNow Incident Connector enables you to bring service desk and monitoring data together. It provides a bi-directional connection between SCOM alerts and ServiceNow incidents.

During our Management Pack Development training sessions, our senior developer Michel Kamp talked about the topic how to debug SCOM workflows using PowerShell. The Knowledge Base article listed below explains in-depth how you can debug your own workflows in SCOM using, Eventlog, WFAnalyzer, Trace by PowerShell and TraceConfig ETW Tracer. So a big thanks to Michel for sharing his knowledge and expertise.

The day has finally come and it's time to upgrade your Operations Manager deployment. You ask yourself, should I upgrade my existing installation or should I start from scratch and build a new environment, side-by-side? This is a common question asked by organizations that we work with. To answer this question, we usually begin by asking some simple questions: To aid your decision-making process, we have listed some of the pros and cons.

This year was the first time that we, together with the team from Approved in Sweden, hosted the yearly SCOM-Day event in Gothenburg. This year's event was a great success for which we thank our sponsors and attendee's. As always, the day was packed with exciting sessions and numerous networking opportunities. We have gathered pictures and presentations from the event that you can find in the link below.

OpsLogix has acquired Approved Consulting, a recognized expert of professional and managed services in monitoring, automation and analytics for IT-operations. Providing edge competence for the Microsoft stack, both on-premises as well as in the cloud, OpsLogix and Approved will jointly expand their capabilities to support customers with a combined product and service portfolio to secure mission critical IT.

On May 15 & 16 we hosted the first SCOM Management Pack Development training in Amsterdam. It was an interesting and exciting course as for a first timer in our region, all slots were sold out in the first three weeks after the announcement.