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NiCE Linux Power Management Pack 1.10 for Microsoft SCOM

IBM Power servers run business critical workloads, so response time and availability is key. With the new NiCE Linux Power Management Pack, you have a comprehensive monitoring solution for your key Linux server on IBM Power Systems. Leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies that will last beyond your expectations.

Coffee Break: SCOM Update Rollup 1

Heard about the SCOM Update Rollup 1 but unsure of exactly what it includes? Let Shawn Williams, SquaredUp Technical Evangelist and Leon Laude, SCOM Consultant and author of popular ‘The System Center Blog’ break it down for you. Among other topics, they will cover updates announced at Ignite 2019 vs what’s been included, new features and fixes, a step-by-step guide to updating and the most useful resources to get started.

Release Webinar: SquaredUp 4.6

Join our Senior Product Team for an in-depth tour of SquaredUp v4.6. John Shaw (Chief Product Officer) and John Knowles (Director of Products) will take you through the impressive product enhancements included in our latest release. Improvements spanning both our SCOM and Azure products include Dark Theme Open Access and Dashboard Pack upgrades. Azure-specific upgrades include deeper insights from Azure Cost Management, Azure Lighthouse support and an improved trial and install experience.

It's all about User Experience! New release available for MetrixInsight for CVAD

It’s all about User Experience! New release available for MetrixInsight for CVAD. A CITRIX® Ready SCOM Management Pack for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. We have included some new important metrics to measure User Experience for Citrix based SBC/VDI: Session Round Trip Time, also known as ICA Round Trip Time (ICA RTT).

Mastering Azure Monitor, with Richard Benwell

With more and more businesses moving into the cloud, many of us are increasingly faced with the need to monitor our Azure applications in Azure Monitor – but where to start? If you’re feeling lost or overwhelmed by the platform’s sheer range of functionality, you’re not alone, and we’ve got some useful resources for you.

How to visualize free disk space available in Azure via Microsoft and 3rd party technologies

We are delighted to have a guest blog from Cameron Fuller, System Center MVP for Cloud and Datacenter Management, Solution Director for Catapult Systems and automation evangelist. Today, Cameron shares how we can visualize free disk space in Azure using Microsoft tools and third party solutions. Scroll down to final section to see what he's got to say about SquaredUp!

Post SCOM Alerts to a REST endpoint

I wrote a quick script the other day to pull some SCOM Alert data for testing and thought I’d share a summarized version for anyone looking for easy options to extract their SCOM data. The below sample script pulls all of the SCOM Alerts from your Management Group and pushes them via REST to a specified endpoint. Using the Operations Manager module makes this pretty quick and painless. I’ve called out a couple of easy tweaks you can make below to the script itself.