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Advanced Oracle Monitoring on Microsoft SCOM within Minutes

Monitor your Oracle databases, instances, tablespaces, pluggable databases, processes, system global area (SGA), clusters, automatic storage management (ASM), listeners, disk groups, and more within minutes. Discover Oracle objects automatically and track the overall health of your Oracle environment easily. Spot and act on Oracle latency issues as they appear. Generate detailed Oracle performance reports with a mouse-click. Use build-in Oracle tasks to speed up operations.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Pingdom dashboard

Join Adam Kinniburgh and Ashley Thompson in this latest Dashboard Fridays episode on Pingdom. This dashboard gives an overview of Pingdom checks using PowerShell scripts against the Pingdom API. In this short video, we'll demonstrate how this dashboard was built using SquaredUp dashboards, the challenges it solves, and how you can easily replicate it in your own environment.

Hybrid Monitoring for Azure and Microsoft 365

Business analytics and business continuity go hand in hand. Microsoft 365 as well as Azure services are used by companies around the globe to achieve better business outcomes. Learn why a hybrid approach to Azure and Microsoft 365 monitoring can be beneficial and what steps to take to get clear insights into SLA fulfillment.

Disk performance collection on virtual appliances in VMware

A virtual appliance is a pre-integrated, self-contained system that combines a software program (e.g., server software) with just enough operating system to run correctly on industry-standard hardware or a virtual machine, such as VMware. Virtual appliances offer many advantages for enterprise IT, including the ability to package a solution as a single product to quickly create ready-to-use systems in the cloud or on-premises, with little to no setup.

Track down high PVS device rates with release MetrixInsight for CVAD - v1.4.22004.x

Track down high Citrix Provisioning Services device retry rates with our new MetrixInsight for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) SCOM Management Pack release. MetrixInsight for CVAD is a CITRIX® Ready SCOM Management Pack for monitoring Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix License Server, Citrix Provisioning Services, Citrix StoreFront and Application Delivery Controller, formerly known as NetScaler.

SquaredUp 5.4: New ODBC data source

We just released the new SquaredUp 5.4 with some brilliant new features. Taking center stage was the new ODBC data source. (If you missed the release announcement you can catch up by reading the quick overview blog post where you can also watch the full release webinar.) With SquaredUp 5.4, you can now instantly visualize any data from almost any database with the addition of ODBC.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample SQL Page Timeframe dashboard

When writing a SQL query, getting the date and time to format correctly can be a real pain. What is the current date and time, and how is it formatted? What happens if I want the date and time from 30 days ago? This SQL Page Timeframe dashboard demonstrates how the current date is picked up from the server hosting SquaredUp and how the Page Timeframe button impacts the date and time in a SQL query. Several different examples are demonstrated.

SCOM 2022 coming soon: the most exciting updates

Great news for the SCOM community – SCOM 2022 is going to be released in the spring! SCOM isn’t going anywhere and it’s only getting better. We saw this proven in the Big SCOM Survey Results 2021 where more than half of respondents said they were going to increase their SCOM deployment to monitor more of their existing and new infrastructure.

Limit the risk of ransomware with OpsLogix VMware MP

Ransomware is not a new concept within IT security. However, much focus is now being brought to it as the scale, number, and cost of these attacks are increasing worldwide. Though these attacks are aimed at organizations, the outcome can significantly impact consumers and individuals as well. The impact these attacks have on healthcare systems, schools, and power providers is significant and can have devastating consequences.