This week I had the honour of speaking at Silect’s MP University and my hot topic was Cookdown’s free PowerShell Authoring MP. I was looking to make the session a little fun, in homage to the original “Fun SCOM Monitoring” video from CTGlobal on monitoring a coffee machine with SCOM 2007 R2. So, I thought what’s the next best thing after coffee? Beer!
As the year draws to a close, we’ve got exciting news. In the new year, we will be launching SquaredUp version 5.0! So, what exactly is in this big, bold update, you ask? Expect a gorgeous new look and feel plus major improvements to our two most popular features – Open Access and Dashboard Designer. We’re also bringing you even more visualizations for your Web API integrations, so you can display data in the best possible way in your single pane of glass. The best part?
As a SCOM admin, you’re probably heavily involved with alert analysis and performance monitoring. You probably also know then, that while SCOM is a great monitoring tool, it leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to reporting on performance monitoring. I’ve got good news for you. SquaredUp sits on top of SCOM and completely changes the game. How? Why? Read on for a comparison and break down of all the reasons you should do it with SquaredUp.
We who use SCOM know about its extensive monitoring capabilities, but the static nature of the SCOM console is not one of its strong points. You can’t drill down to see the data, or correlate data with other data types or alerts for the same object. To the delight of our customers, SquaredUp allows you to do all that and much more – so that you can get all the detail and insight you need, from the metrics you are already collecting.
ServiceNow is one of the most widely deployed ITSM tools within enterprise IT environments, and for good reason – they provide a highly customisable platform that allows organisations build the tools they need to their exact requirements. But you’ve got more than ServiceNow to manage and monitor – there’s SCOM, Splunk, and Solarwinds monitoring your infrastructure, also your APM and CI/CD tools too.
The NiCE DB2 Management Pack enables advanced health and performance diagnostics for DB2 databases using the Microsoft System Center console. Leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time, and build efficiencies that will last beyond your expectations.
A company’s data warehouse is usually the largest database a company uses when dealing with SCOM data, this means it is often the most expensive to manage and maintain. They can also be a drain on your infrastructure, taking a long time to backup, slowing down reporting, consuming more hardware space and can be very time consuming to recover, if they go down.
SCOM is a great solution to monitor your infrastructure. Everything you need for in-depth monitoring is provided out-of-box or with a dedicated management pack. If your organization is genuinely invested with SCOM, you probably also know that you can get in-depth monitoring with SCOM’s Application Performance Monitoring (APM) functionality, and collect events across your servers with SCOM’s Audit Collection Services (ACS).
Get above and beyond Oracle monitoring on SCOM by creating actionable ServiceNow incidents from your SCOM alerts with real-time, two-way synchronization. Cookdown and NiCE have joined forces to help you leverage your SCOM and Oracle monitoring investment while increasing your IT Service Management quality, in the best possible way.
