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Visualized Microsoft 365, Oracle, DB2, and VMware Monitoring

Aug 14, 2024 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt

NiCE IT Management Solutions has unveiled a new suite of dashboards designed to enhance the monitoring and visualization of critical enterprise applications, including Microsoft 365, Oracle, DB2, and VMware, within the SquaredUp platform. These dashboards are built on top of NiCE’s SCOM Management Packs, offering a seamless integration that provides IT teams with deeper insights and greater control over their monitoring environments.

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IBM Power System, HMC, and VIOS Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM

Aug 7, 2024 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt

We are excited to announce the release of the NiCE HMC VIOS Management Pack, designed to provide comprehensive monitoring and management for IBM’s Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) environments. This highly efficient tool empowers IT administrators to maintain optimal health and performance within their IBM Power infrastructure, ensuring seamless operations and minimizing downtime.

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NetApp Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM

Aug 1, 2024 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt

Keeping your storage systems performing at their best is essential for smooth business operations. That’s why it’s crucial to integrate NetApp into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) for a comprehensive monitoring solution. Many clients already use tools like Active IQ and System Manager, but the real magic happens when these tools work together seamlessly.

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SQUPCAST Ep. 9: A Fix of Fancy Features

Jul 25, 2024 By Squared Up In Squared Up

In this episode we're having a pow-wow with Dave and Vincent from our product team, who have a bumper update on recent fancy features. We're talking dashboard variables, markdown support, and lots more.

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Deep dive into any tile - introducing our Data Explorer

Jul 25, 2024 By Dave Clarke In Squared Up

With the release of the Data Explorer, users can now dig into the data behind any tile and slice, dice and explore as needed. This is perfect for those ad-hoc ‘scratchpad’ style scenarios where you want to get some answers without creating yet another dashboard. A couple of weeks ago, we released an awesome new feature that we haven’t had a chance to showcase yet. It’s called The Data Explorer, and I think it’s pretty cool. Let’s dive in!

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Introducing Workspace Icons

Jul 25, 2024 By Vincent Babin In Squared Up

In this blog, I’d like to announce a new feature that brings an extra touch of personalization to your SquaredUp experience: Workspace Icons.

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Self-Built vs Third-Party Management Packs for Microsoft SCOM

Jul 23, 2024 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt

This whitepaper explores the comparative advantages and disadvantages of self-built versus third-party SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) management packs. It delves into the essential aspects of these solutions, including cost analysis, performance and efficiency, customization, and support. Additionally, it provides a decision-making framework to guide organizations in selecting the most suitable option for their specific needs. Real-world case studies illustrate the practical implications and benefits of each approach, offering a comprehensive understanding of how these solutions can be effectively implemented.

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How to visualize Azure Resource Graph data with KQL

Jul 17, 2024 By Bruce Cullen In Squared Up

Using SquaredUp, you can query Azure Resource Graph with KQL to pull Change history, Azure Service Health and maintenance schedules. For the uninitiated, Azure Resource Graph is a series of tables holding information on Azure resources and how they are related. Its data is used many places within Azure itself (such as the Azure Portal’s native search) and it’s data can help us with many use cases as it is designed to help with queries at scale.

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SQUPCAST Ep. 8: Relayed from behind enemy lines

Jul 16, 2024 By Squared Up In Squared Up

In this episode we're chatting with Matthew Long from our engineering team about how our Relay Agent get's behind enemy lines to surface all your juicy on-prem enterprise data into our fancy cloud dashboards. We'll cover the classic server deployment and chat about some container-based options too.

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Introducing dashboard variables

Jul 11, 2024 By Dave Clarke In Squared Up

We’re excited to announce the general availability of dashboard variables in SquaredUp. With this new feature, dashboards you create are flexible and reusable. Instead of hardcoding specific objects within the tiles on a dashboard, you can use variables to create just one dashboard to be reused across all your objects of the same type – be it your pipelines, apps, or microservices. Viewers of the dashboard can then select which objects they are interested in on the fly.

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