The first product to let you build live, interactive 360° dashboards that give you complete visibility of your cloud-hosted applications. Today is the start of an exciting new chapter at SquaredUp. The biggest release in the history of our company – SquaredUp for Azure – is now live!

We are excited to announce that we have a new dashboard pack on offer – this time for Tao Yang’s SCOM Self-Maintenance Management Pack! Earlier this year, our sister company Cookdown acquired Tao Yang’s MP, which (as its name suggests) basically ensures that SCOM is always running smoothly. It has a bunch of monitors, rules, views and tasks that help you monitor and maintain your SCOM Management Group.

If you've used SCOM you know that it is a true monitoring powerhouse, but one that needs a helping hand surfacing data that matters and getting users engaged. The replacement of Silverlight with HTML5 in the SCOM 2019 web console is a welcome enhancement, but the SCOM web console still shares its design with the administration console, which users find slow, complex and hard to get the visibility they need. Enter SquaredUp.

Earlier this year, our partner GripMatix released a feature-packed Citrix management pack (MP) that helps improve the monitoring of Citrix environments using SCOM. This was warmly received by our customers who preferred not to shell out for the premium ‘Citrix Platinum’ license, and so don’t have access to SCOM MPs directly from Citrix.

Google “SCOM and Azure” and the top hits will tell you all about “Moving from SCOM to Azure Monitor”, “Changing of the guard…”, and “Microsoft explains why it replaced SCOM with Azure Monitor” etc. If you only read the marketing, you’d be forgiven for thinking SCOM is being replaced. Microsoft’s marketing push on Azure Monitor has no doubt caused some uncertainty about the position of SCOM.

Self Maintenance MP? isnt that Tao Yang’s management pack? you are along the right lines.. As Tao moves onto Azure he has handed the Self Maintenance MP to us to ensure it gets the love and attention deserves, and what better way to do that than with a new release! – its an awesome pack Good news for SCOM admins everywhere.

In this blog we are going to discuss how you can use Cookdown’s PowerShell MP to create SCOM tasks written in PowerShell and how you can visualise the output of your tasks in a much more efficient and user-readable format – using SquaredUp.

We are delighted to welcome guest blogger Brian Wren of Microsoft. Brian is something of a superstar in the SCOM world – and you will see why when you check out his technical guides on TechNet or Microsoft Learn. His series on Management Pack Authoring for SCOM is a definitive guide that has helped many of us get started with a difficult topic. It is fair to say that when Brian works his magic, he makes the complicated perfectly understandable.