Hi Guys,
I have been thinking, if there is someone out there, that have built a management pack for monitoring the Squared Up installation ?
i am primary thinking of :
Please give some feedback 
Hi,
I have had a busy couple of months, but lately we have build a performance rule, that checks the number of used licenses.
The check for the website server etc is not that hard.
But finding out a way, to check the expiration of the license, that is tricky
Great idea Skovsen, keen to see how you get on with that!
Bump! How did you get on with this?
Hey, a couple of updates for you on this. We have another client interested in doing this, so would suggest we connect the two of you if you’re up for that. Secondly, we’ll be surfacing license expiry warnings in the product shortly (v3.3) so that may then be less of a concern for you.
Hi, Sounds great
We haven’t been looking at it so much the last couple of months, very very busy.
But it could be interesting to hook up with another client to do this.
Please give them my contact info, and we can set up a meeting .
Hello, just joined the Community and saw this topic and wanted to find out if someone had created a Management Pack to monitor SquaredUp?
Hi
I know this is an old thread but I’ve just started at SquaredUp as the Technical Product Manager for Dashboard Server and this is towards the top of my hit list.
I’m looking for feedback on what should be included in the Management Pack. I have my own ideas but now is your chance to help shape this MP. It will be a community MP and I’d like to release it alongside our v7 release so please take this opportunity to share your requirements either on this thread or DM me.
Thanks
Graham
Hi Graham,
Some things that I think would be nice to be able to track are:
Years ago I had set up a log file monitor to get an informational alert when a user logged in. That was nice to have. It stopped working after an update (I forget which) and I never bothered to fix it.
-Steve
Hi Steve
Thanks for the feedback. From easiest to most difficult.
One of the team has suggested looking at the auditing feature to see if we capture enough data here - Auditing | SquaredUp SCOM Support - I’ll schedule some time over the next few weeks to take a look in more detail.
This may be a challenge. As there is no authentication, it is unlikely to be captured by auditing. There may be something to work with in the logs but I’d need to check. I’ll add it to the requirements and investigate some more.
License expiration - this is definitely on the list.
If you have any other ideas then please let me know.
Regards
Graham
Hi Guys,
Completely forgot about this post.
We ended up building something for our self back then, but we could not get the initially discovery of a SquaredUp server working, so we did it hardcoded (not proper for releasing it publicly.
The Monitors we ended up with was:
A connection tester (validate that the website responds as intented)
Licenses in use %
License validity
Days left on license
Collection Rules:
Licenses in use
Days left on license
Alert rules:
User limit reached
I hope you can use this, and if you want, I can sent over our MP, hopefully you can use it as a base/inspiration for our Management Pack 
Hi
That sounds great. We did something similar where I worked before and it worked in a belts and braces sort of way. If you are able to send the unsealed MP across then I’d happily take a look and incorporate your existing monitoring into a future MP.
Thanks
Graham
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Hi,
@GramhamDS, You should have received a mail from me now
Thanks - safely received.
The auditing feature looks like it has some interesting information around the use of dashboards by authenticated users - it might need some tweaking to get what you want in terms of the first requirement but hopefully this will help to get started.
I’ve installed the auditing morning and just had a quick play - see attachments. At the moment I’m just doing a full listing rather than scoping by “yesterday” and “last 7 days” but that is straight forward to update. You can even plug a query into the SQL tile (final screenshot).
Table:
Listing Users and Dashboards
Count by number of visits
SQL Plugin
That looks like it could be promising.
For the Open Access page views I was thinking something like the old page hit counters that were popular back in the GeoCities/Angelfire days. Totally understandable if it’s not feasible though.
I thought of something else. It might be useful to have a way to track user license usage. Maybe a performance collection rule that can track how many are available or assigned and a monitor that can alert when less than some number are available. That could be especially helpful for environments where automatic assignment is enabled and there are, potentially, more users than licenses.
-Steve
Thanks Steve for the ideas. Licensing will definitely be included for days to expiry and we can investigate bringing in tracking of license usage. My preference if we do would be an alert rule rather than a monitor otherwise we risk turning the SquaredUp server unhealthy for a licensing “issue”.
Thanks for the suggestions and please keep them coming. If you have feedback on other improvements or functionality you’d like in SquaredUp DS then please drop me a line as we are solidifying the roadmap for v7.
Regards
Graham
