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SCOM 2022: What to expect and what you need to know

Microsoft System Center Operations Management team has been busy with new features and updates for SCOM. The most recent version, SCOM 2019, came out on March 14th, 2019. The release date for the upcoming SCOM 2022 has been announced to be globally available in Q1 2022. This blog post will provide an overview of some of the features you can expect to see in SCOM 2022 and how those changes may affect your experience of SCOM monitoring as a user or customer.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample JIRA Health dashboard

Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and Tim Wheeler as they showcase this example Jira Health Status dashboard. Offering a quick view of the state of your next release, alongside the health of the Jira project as a whole, this dashboard uses SquaredUp’s Web API and PowerShell tiles to improve on Jira’s native dashboarding capabilities. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.

Get control back into the Control Room

This article explains how SquaredUp for SCOM leverages the true power of the SCOM platform: the SCOM object model. I believe in dashboarding you need simplicity and granularity all in one. Simplicity for your Control Room, which gives clear and quick insight. Granularity and detail for your system management engineers to be able to drill-down into details and find that Root-Cause quickly.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Azure DevOps Dashboard

Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and Azure expert Shaswot Subedi as they showcase this example Azure DevOps Dashboard. This dashboard uses SquaredUp’s WebAPI tile and data from Azure DevOps to give our DevOps Team the performance overview of our build and release pipelines that they always wanted. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our experts top tips for building it yourself.

Release Webinar: Connection Center for Webhooks Inbound

The release of our Connection Center for Webhooks Inbound means SCOM can now become a Webhook listener, enabling it to automatically receive data, and raise what it receives as SCOM alerts and events. This webinar takes you through all the new features of our latest integration for Inbound Webhooks and showcases how you can use it to make SCOM your central monitoring resource.

NiCE DB2 Management Pack 5.00 released

The NiCE DB2 Management Pack 5.0 is an enterprise-ready Microsoft SCOM add-on for advanced IBM Db2 monitoring. It supports the Db2 system, application, and database administrator in centralized IBM Db2 health and performance monitoring to improve user experience and business results. The Management Pack provides clear and precise performance indicators and timely alerts enriched by pinpointing problem identification and troubleshooting information.

VMworld 2021: "We're Proud To Announce..."

I've never seen so much news during VMworld! It began to seem comical that every speaker at the opening "General Session" and subsequent keynotes used the line "We are proud to announce." By the way, one of the most excellent General Sessions I've ever seen in terms of tempo, delivery, and rhetoric! From October 15, you will be able to find all content on-demand here.

Silect and OpsLogix extends partnership in North America

Last year, we announced that OpsLogix partnered up with the Canadian company Silect, a Microsoft GOLD Partner specializing in Microsoft's System Center; read more here. We are extending this Partnership with Silect that has a strong presence on the North American market, with an additional product - our Oracle Management Pack. This means that Silect will exclusively provide customers in Canada and the US with the OpsLogix Oracle MP.