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21/09/201507/01/2025
by Martin Ehrnst

SquaredUp just released a new version which includes some great new features.

Page Scope – to speed up the creation of custom dashboards when displaying information for a single dataset (eg. SQL Computers, or a specific Distributed Application), you’re now able to set the scope for dashboards at the level of the entire page, rather than having to scope sections individually.

Clone Dashboards – to make it even easier for you to build custom dashboards, we’ve introduced the ability to clone an existing dashboard. In conjunction with Page Level Scope, this now means it’s easier than ever for you to create a template dashboard and then quickly replicate that for multiple different applications or infrastructure components.

Group Maintenance Mode – under the hood of 2.2, we’ve made some significant changes to the way that Squared Up works and that’s allowed us to introduce a cool new feature, Group Maintenance Mode, which allows you to place an entire Group into Maintenance Mode with a single click.

Revamped Status Plugin – we’ve updated the Status plugin to provide much better options for sorting and grouping objects, as well as significantly enhanced labelling options

Along with version 2.2 of SquaredUp, they released their new community dashboard site where you can download already configured dashboards and contribute to the rest of our community.

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First look at SquaredUp’s new Visio plugin

30/04/201507/01/2025
by Martin Ehrnst

A short while ago i implemented SquaredUp – a dashboard solution for OpsMgr in the company i work for. A few days ago, they released a new version (2.1) which includes a new Visio plugin. In short, this plugin allows you to add Monitored Objects to your Visio diagram, and show it’s health state the way you like it.

In this short write up i will show you how i created one of our wall monitors. But the first thing you need is SquaredUp installed (download and test :).

In MS Visio, start out with a basic diagram, or one of your existing ones. This is my start.

Next, you will have to add data to your shapes. SquaredUp relies on Object ID from OpsMgr. You can find this, either through Powershell or maybe it is easier to navigate to the object in Squared Up, since thats where you already are. Label: ScomID, value: <yourscomid>
Repeat this for all your objects you want to display.
(PS: if you have all your objects in a group, you can export group members from SquaredUp, and import to visio)

After all this is done. Export your Visio drawing in to .SVG. Now you create a new dashboard in SU with a Visio section. You can choose to color replace, or add an icon (which you also could with image plugin)

After all is done. This is how our dashboard look like. Exchange all green

The possibilities are “endless” this is how our wall monitor look like. The green shade represent the overall group state.

SquaredUp v2.2 and community dashboards

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First look at SquaredUp’s new Visio plugin

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