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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).

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.

This week, we are glad to have with us IT Consultant and knowledge-sharing enthusiast Bert Pinoy. Here, Bert shows us how to integrate SquaredUp with external APIs, using the example of the MP he created, Uptimerobot Management Pack.

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!

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.

Now that we’ve talked a lot about how to monitor your Azure resources, let’s talk about how to monitor Azure itself. As the classic statement goes, “there is no cloud – it’s just someone else’s computer” – and all computers can go down. Even Microsoft’s. So how do you know when poor availability or performance of your resources is actually a result of Azure itself being sick?

NiCE IT Management Solutions is proud to serve global key-players in advanced Oracle database performance and health monitoring. Read the latest customer reference on how the NiCE Oracle Management Pack is helping a global Oil & Gas company in standardized, IT Governance compliant Oracle operations.