Hi, As I posted earlier SquaredUp can be integrated with all kinds of APIs, however if you know about management pack authoring an API can also be used as datasource in a management pack. In this post I’ll show some information about an Uptime Robot Management pack I created to create classes and instances of… Read More »
Hi, Today I want to talk about the integration of SquaredUp with external APIs. As an example I want to integrate date coming from Uptimerobot (https://uptimerobot.com/) in SquaredUp. Uptimerobot enables you to aadd 50 websites to check for free. First of all create an account for Uptimerobot To be able to access data we need… Read More »
Hi, Today I was at a customer who had a really specific question regarding monitoring of Windows Services with Operations Manager (SCOM). We had already set up some basic recovery actions which restart the service automatically after it was stopped. For some other services the customer wanted to add extra functionality: The recovery action should… Read More »
Hi, I come at a lot of customers to implement or support SCOM. Sometimes the same questions or troubles come up. One of that questions is: “Is it possible to monitor the count of files (with a specific extension) in a share?” The answer to this question is yes and no. There is a possibility… Read More »
Hi, Today I want to show you guys a nice example of how we can use custom scripts to visualise data coming from SCCM in Squared Up dashboards on top of a SCOM platform. And provide a strong integration between SCCM, SCOM & Squared Up. Squared Up is my favorite tool to create dashboards, check… Read More »
Hi, I’m currently busy at several customers setting up SCOM infrastructures. At one of those customers there were complaints by users that email messages were queued. When looking at the queues on the exchange servers they were actually HUGE. Due to the fact Exchange was already monitored in SCOM I thought we would have seen… Read More »
Hi, Today I want to give an answer to the question I often get at customers: “We want an overview of all certificates in our environment (on Windows Servers) that are expiring within X amount of days”. This approach is based on this management pack: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/pack-catalog/pki-certificate-verification-mp/ The management pack discovers certificates on all servers (in specific… Read More »