SCOM has incredible powers, but it’s not always easy to find the root cause of issues fast. And you definitely don’t get one-click SCOM root cause analysis. We’ve all been there. A business-critical server goes down and you don’t know why. Let’s imagine you had a dashboard showing the health statuses of all your server groups and you notice that the United States is showing as critical.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve just released SquaredUp Dashboard Server 5.6! This Dashboard Server release covers multiple features that have been highly requested by the community. Prioritizing this user feedback, we’ve added some exciting new visualizations, features and enhancements. Read on to learn about the latest updates, or catch the full webinar recording at the bottom of the blog for a detailed demo by Senior Solutions Engineer Ashley Thompson.
Looking to keep an eye on logs and metrics from AWS or CloudWatch? There are several reasons you might want to build a CloudWatch dashboard somewhere outside of the CloudWatch console: Whatever the reason, we’ve put together a write-up to help you plug into CloudWatch to surface any logs or metrics in one place, for easy alerting and sharing, using the SquaredUp observability portal. You can get your own SquaredUp account, just head over to squaredup.io/get-started to sign-up for a free account.
We frequently get asked questions about how to maintain and optimize SCOM. So here are the top SCOM questions we get asked and answers from the experts.
Citrix ADC plays a central role in Citrix environments and its performance impacts the user experience. Therefore, the availability and performance of the Citrix ADC appliance are crucial. The new Citrix ADC Management Pack is a complete monitoring solution providing deep visibility into ADC performance. It extends the end-to-end service monitoring capabilities of Microsoft SCOM to include the Citrix ADC infrastructure.
SCOMathon 2022, hosted by SquaredUp and Cookdown on May 10, delivered massive SCOM content packed into 21 sessions, 3 keynotes, and 3 panel discussions. The Microsoft SCOM team, MVPs, experts, and customers discussed all things SCOM, including the latest updates, best practice tips, specific use case scenarios, and lessons learned during their SCOM migrations. 245 attendees joined the sessions to learn and chat with their peers. As every year, a donation is made based on participants per session.
We’ve just released SquaredUp 5.5! As always, you’ll find some great new additional features as well as enhancements in the SquaredUp Community, Azure, and SCOM Editions. Plus, the new 5.5 release works with SCOM 2022. Here’s a quick overview of what’s new: Check out the release webinar here or keep reading for all the juicy details.
SCOM 2022 has been recently made GA and I, coming from a SCOM background, was pretty interested in checking out the latest SCOM product. Luckily, Azure Stack HCI management packs were recently released too, so it was as if the stars had lined up for me to drop everything else and check out this new management pack with SCOM 2022. And that is exactly what I did!
It is going to excite your fellow Citrix engineers for sure!
