Dell Client Management Pack Version 5.1 for SCOM 2012 R2

Dell Client Management Pack Version 5.1 for SCOM 2012 R2

The Client Management Pack enables the following operations to manage Dell client systems:

• Discover and monitor Dell Latitude, Dell Precision, and Dell OptipPlex computers running supported OMCI and client Windows operating systems.
• Group Dell Clients without instrumentation and client systems running without OMCI service under the Dell UnManaged Clients group.NOTE: Dell Vostro systems are displayed under the Dell UnManaged Clients group.
• Monitor the health status for client hardware components by polling at periodic intervals, and update the state of each component in the diagram view. A health status is a standardized description of the functional performance of a component, system, or service. For more information, see Tasks
• Perform client shutdown and reboot tasks.
• Launch remote desktop for Dell client systems.
• Generate reports on Dell Windows

RightFax Management Pack from Infront consulting

RightFax Management Pack from infront

• Infornt Consulting has released a deep dirve Management pack for RightFax.
• This helps Montior RightFax End to end and give great visibility of the problems that arises.
• You can see a detail video from Infornt Consulting on how it works below

Citrix Aquires Comtrade Managemet pack

Citrix Aquires Comtrade Managemet pack

• Citrix Product is one of the most important product that is monitored via SCOM
• Almost 50 % of desktops and app are Citrix Apps in any environment.
• Comtrade was the only reliable MP for Citrix across the world for SCOM.
• Citrix has now aquired Comtrade MP which means we will get it lke HP mp's free of cost .

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Audiocodes Management pack for Lync 2013

Audiocodes Management pack for Lync 2013

• Audio codes Management pack for Lync 2013 is SNMP based MP which is used to monitor the Audio codes devices.
• Audio codes are the back end device which acts like a epbax box for lync.
• Lync telephony is fast replacing the traditional cisco voip phones which we see in most organizations.
• The cost saving benefit is huge and lot of organizations are migrating to it.
• So it become vital to monitor these devices and Audicodes have replased a Management for all there devices be it M1K,M2K,M3K.
• The Configuration of this MP is straight forward..First you discover it as netowrk device in SCOM. Then you install the MP and the devices will start getting monitored.
• To download the MP go click here

What is a Management Pack an What does it contain

What is a Management Pack an What does it contain

Management packs contain monitoring settings for applications and services. Once you import the management pack in SCOM 2012 R2 management group, it immediately begins monitoring objects based on configurations and thresholds that are set by the management pack.

Each management pack can contain any or all of the following:

• Monitors:It tells an agent to track the state of various parts of a managed component.

• Rules: It tells an agent to collect performance and discovery data, send alerts and events etc.

• Tasks: The activities that can be executed by either the agent or the console.

• Views: It offer customized user interfaces for monitoring and managing this component.

• Reports: It define specialized ways to report on information about this managed component.

• Object discoveries: which identify objects to be monitored.

• Knowledge Base: It provides Knowledge to help operators diagnose and fix problems.

Squared UP Web Dashboard for SCOM 2012R2

Squared UP Web Dashboard for SCOM 2012 R2

• Dashboard is one of the places where SCOM failed very badly.
• We where not able to answer the management when they want to se the data.
• As SCOM web-console is very bad and we cant ask the management to open a dashboard from scom console.
• We use to manage them by sending reports monthly,but the current management wants it to see it in live.
• So recently we saw where reviewing some 3 rd party dasboards and we where very impressed by the "Squared UP" Dashboard.
• Its a Pure HTML5 dashboard which directly connects to SCOM and shows the data.
• Its so cool that everybody loved it and evn Microsoft got impressed and gave them time in the Microsoft Ignite meeting to demo the product.
• You can see the below by going to http://demo.squredup.com
• This dashboard is even compatible on your mobile which is cool.
• You can also get 30 days free trial aand use the product and see how it looks.
• Go to http://squaredup.com/ for more details