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New release: SquaredUp 5.4 - Bring your answers to the surface

Feb 7, 2022 By Squared Up In Squared Up

SquaredUp 5.4 is here and it’s got some brilliant new features and upgrades to help you troubleshoot and find answers faster than ever. You’ll find the upgrades across all three SquaredUp editions – for SCOM, Azure, and the free Community Edition. Here are the highlights in the new release: Check out our release webinar for a detailed walkthrough and demo.

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Dashboard Fridays: Sample au2mator Services Dashboard

Feb 4, 2022 By Squared Up In Squared Up
Our au2mator customers heavily use the au2mator Self Service Portal to present automation as a delegated task to the Service Desk, Users, and Admins. This dashboard shows how au2mator were able to visualize all their services within a single SquaredUp dashboard. Using SQL, PowerShell, Azure Log Analytics, and Web Content, au2mator made a dashboard that looks simple but visualizes a lot. Join Adam Kinniburgh and special guest Michael Seidl from au2mator as they demonstrate how this dashboard was built, the challenges it solves and how you can get the dashboard pack!
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Defining your naming conventions: The key to a structured SCOM environment

Feb 3, 2022 By Jonas Lenntun In OpsLogix
When it comes to sophisticated software like System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), where a structure is vital to maintain your environment, your naming conventions are the key to long-term success. Many different people are involved in the process of monitoring. To maintain documentation and procedures, you must define how you should name parts used in SCOM. Everything from the management group name to groups, management packs, override management packs, views, and folders.
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Containerization and Kubernetes Monitoring

Feb 1, 2022 By OpsLogix In OpsLogix
As cloud-native solutions are gaining recognition and becoming a common approach to developing applications, more attention has been directed towards container orchestration and Kubernetes. Both concepts within the realm of IT have been around for a while. Thanks to the technologies' maturing and cloud adoption, they've recently gained significant attention. We all know that software containers are far from traditional shipping containers, yet they function similarly: they standardize and combine.
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Dashboard Fridays: Sample Excel Business KPIs Dashboard

Jan 28, 2022 By Squared Up In Squared Up
The Management Team at SquaredUp needed a dashboard to visualise key metrics related to the different sectors of business to keep an eye on the KPIs and track targets. This dashboard keeps track of the different key targets set for the business over three time periods and highlights variations. The dashboard also plots the trend on different values hit over the time and helps identify fluctuations.
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GripMatix Citrix MP most used SCOM 3rd-party Management Pack for Citrix

Jan 27, 2022 By GripMatix In GripMatix

The Big SCOM Survey 2021 results are available and we are happy to see that at organizations the use of SCOM is still expected to grow according to more than half of the respondents. It is a survey executed by SCOMathon. But above all, our Citrix Ready Management Pack solution for monitoring Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops scored as second-most used 3rd-party Management Pack of all 3rd-party Management Packs out there.

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Press Release: Kubernetes Management Pack Announcement

Jan 24, 2022 By Jonas Lenntun In OpsLogix
Today OpsLogix announces the upcoming release of their new Kubernetes Management Pack. This product is designed to help organizations monitor their Kubernetes clusters using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The management pack provides comprehensive monitoring of all aspects of your Kubernetes environment, from individual nodes and pods to entire clusters.
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Dashboard Fridays: Sample Microsoft Teams Dashboard

Jan 21, 2022 By Squared Up In Squared Up
Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and Purdue University's Daniel Parrott as they showcase this sample Microsoft Teams dashboard used by Purdue to visualize key Microsoft Teams usage metrics for their online classrooms. Built using SquaredUp, this dashboard keeps track of the total number of Teams and which are empty, allowing them to pinpoint issues with the data load to create the teams or update issues. The dashboard also monitors for empty class sections to help identify issues with the class selection process.
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Cloverleaf and Customized Management Packs

Jan 20, 2022 By OpsLogix In OpsLogix
Every business is different, and every IT environment has its own set of challenges. Customized SCOM Management Packs are created to meet the monitoring and automation requirements of your company's critical applications. OpsLogix offers a wide range of off-the-shelf monitoring products, but for companies working with niche applications, these are not always applicable.
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