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Azure dashboards: SquaredUp vs. Azure portal (Part 2 - Application Insights)

In Part 1 of this series, we compared the Azure portal vs. SquaredUp in terms of how easy it is to make a VM-level dashboard and how good that dashboard is in terms of features and functionality. In this one, we will compare the two portals in terms of application-level dashboards.

Citrix MP -30% EOL Deal

Citrix announced EOL for their SBC/ VDI SCOM MPs. We understand that a transition to an alternative solution takes some effort. Especially during these extraordinary times. To support a smooth transition we offer 30% discount for a 1-year subscription on MetrixInsight for CVAD SCOM MP during June, July and August 2020 for all Citrix CVA(D) Premium license customers.

Azure dashboards: Azure Portal vs. SquaredUp (Part 1 - VMInsights)

Be it be on-premise or in Azure, monitoring your resources is extremely important. While the popular monitoring tool to use on premise remains to be SCOM, many organizations with a presence in the cloud have started to explore Azure Monitor to fulfil their monitoring needs in Azure. Recently, we discussed Azure Monitor and its capabilities extensively in our Azure Monitor Learning Path blog series.

Coffee Break: Citrix Monitoring with GripMatix

You may have heard that Citrix announced EOL for multiple SCOM MPs as of June 2020. This month we are joined by Adam Kinniburgh, Lead Evangelist at SquaredUp along with Merijn Overgaauw and Marc van der Veer, Citrix specialists and Product Architects at GripMatix, for a Q&A style discussion on Citrix Monitoring.

Coffee Break: Citrix Monitoring with GripMatix

You may have heard that Citrix announced EOL for multiple SCOM MPs as of June 2020. What are the alternatives? This month we are joined by Adam Kinniburgh, Lead Evangelist at SquaredUp along with Merijn Overgaauw and Marc van der Veer, Citrix specialists and Product Architects at GripMatix, for a Q&A style discussion on Citrix Monitoring.

Migrating Management Packs When Upgrading SCOM

Management Packs contain the actual monitoring (the workflows themselves) as well as extend the SCOM platforms functionality and are critical to getting your new SCOM Management Group up and running. The good news is most of SCOM Management Packs that worked with SCOM 2012 R2 work right through to SCOM 2019, so you are safe to import them into your new Management Group.

Alert Tuning for Your Upgraded SCOM Environment

If you know which MPs your overrides are stored in, then migrating your current effective tuning is as easy as exporting all of your override MPs, and then importing them into your new SCOM Management Group, assuming you have already imported the MPs containing the monitoring itself. As you also know, in most SCOM deployments, this is never reality across the board.