What's New in SquaredUp DS for SCOM
See also: Release Notes for SquaredUp DS for SCOM
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What's new in v7.1
SquaredUp DS for SCOM v7.1 includes the following new features:
- Drilldowns using dashboard variables
- New Ribbon visualization
- Navigation improvements
- Alerts tile improvements
- Mobile mode
- Floating title buttons
Drilldowns using dashboard variables
You can now create your own custom drilldown pages using our new feature: Dashboard variables. We have expanded the ability to add item links to many more tiles and visualizations, so you can create dynamic URLs. This enables you to use the URL to pass a variable from a top-level dashboard to a drilldown dashboard so the tiles can show more detailed data.
Dashboard variables are available for the following tiles:
See Drilldowns using dashboard variables
New Ribbon visualization
Responding to customer requests for a more compact donut style visualization we have created the Ribbon visualization, which acts like an unfurled donut. You can change the ribbon height, labels, color palette etc.
The ribbon visualization is available for:
- SCOM Alerts and Status tiles
- Web API, PowerShell, SQL, Azure Log Analytics, Elasticsearch, VMware, Splunk, Prometheus, and SolarWinds (all EAM-X tiles except ServiceNow and App Insights).
Navigation improvements
Drag and drop dashboards
Moving dashboards is now even more intuitive, using drag and drop functionality directly on the navigation bar. Dashboards can be moved between folders, including Team Folders, as long as the folder is open and already contains at least one dashboard. This functionality is available to administrators and authors with rights to the Team Folders. All previous methods of editing the nav bar and Team Folders still work and remain the method for more complex scenarios.
Resizeable navigation bar
The nav bar can now be made narrower or wider. By moving the mouse in from left to right the nav bar divider is highlighted and a resizing cursor is shown, so you can drag to change the width of the nav bar.
Open folders
Open folders now remain expanded as you browse around dashboards.
Floating title buttons
The page timeframe and edit mode buttons now remain visible, 'floating' at the top of the page, as you scroll down longer dashboards.
Alerts tile improvements
The SCOM Alerts tile now includes the ability to customize columns, which is functionality you've seen on the other tiles like the Web API and PowerShell Grid visualizations. You can set the data type, configure coloring based on conditions, and use mustache formatting.
Mobile mode
To allow DS for SCOM to be viewed on a mobile device, it defaults to a limited version of the navigation bar, and collapses the action buttons. The editing of dashboards and the System page are also disabled.
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To get started see How to install SquaredUp DS for SCOM.
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Read the Release Notes for SquaredUp DS for SCOM for details on other improvements in this release.
If you have an earlier version of DS for SCOM already installed, then the installer will upgrade your installation, see How to upgrade SquaredUp DS for SCOM
What's new in v7.0
SquaredUp DS for SCOM v7.0 includes the following new features:
New UI and navigation
The new left-hand navigation bar maximizes the available space, allowing you to focus on what matters, your data and visualizations. The nav bar can also be collapsed, while still giving easy access to the home button, search and favorites menu.
Folders now open within the nav bar, so they no longer obscure your data. Inline actions allow you to add dashboards and folders at the folder level from the nav bar, and folder details are easily accessible.
The System menu, available from the bottom of the left-hand nav bar System > Administration, has been structured with menus and sub-menus, so you can more easily find the settings you need.
VMware Integration
The new VMware Integration, available with the EAM-X edition license, connects over HTTPS to your vSphere environment using the VMware SDK.
The VMware tile includes 10 visualizations to allow you to show health, performance and object property data from common VMware object types like host system, virtual machines, datastores, clusters, network and more.
VMware Donut tiles default to showing Health State, but can be configured as a general purpose donut using VMware object properties. For example, it’s possible to show VM health status in one donut and a count of VMs by OS type in another. This is achieved via the Data Mapping panel in this donut, along with some default custom colors for health states.
The VMware Grid tile shows rows of data such as Name, Status, Connection State, Uptime etc. Users can search the grid, and temporarily change the column size and sorting of the grid (by clicking on the column headers) without having to access the settings.
The VMware Alarms tile shows details of the alarms in a grid format, showing information such as State, Target Type, time and date raised etc.
See How to use the VMware tile and How to add a VMware vSphere provider
Other improvements
Filtering on 'Instance'
Checking Exclude matching instances will show all instances other than those you've specified, so for example you can choose NOT to show C: drives.
Sort Performance line and column graph legends
The new sort legend option allows you to sort the legend entries in ascending or descending order.
Format the values shown on graph axes and when hovering
You can now format the values shown using the mustache picker, and the modified values will also be shown on any axis and hover values. For example, you can round the value up or down or convert it.
Search for SCOM tasks in lists
Often there are many tasks in the SCOM task list, either when configuring a SCOM Task tile, or adding a Task button to a dashboard. You can now search for the task you want to run:
Or choose from the dropdown menu: