May 10, 2022

Coffee Break: The Ultimate Guide to Implementing the Manifesto for SCOM Success

Bruce Cullen / Jan Pettersson / Nathan Foreman

At SCOMathon 2020, SquaredUp Founder & CEO Richard Benwell shared his top 5 tips for SCOM success in the APAC Keynote: A Manifesto for SCOM Success.

In this month’s Coffee Break webinar, Cookdown Director of Advanced Products Bruce Cullen is joined by Nathan Foreman, Solution Architect of Advanced Products at Cookdown, and Jan Pettersson, System Specialist at Umeå University, for a look into how to succeed at implementing each element of the Manifesto, discussing the challenges of SCOM, and how to overcome them.

They will cover a mix of free and paid for solutions you can use to get more from the investment you have already made in SCOM. Connect to ITSM tools, solve alert tuning, and get started with custom monitoring, app monitoring and more.

Meet the author

Author

Bruce Cullen

Director of Engineering @ SquaredUp, Founding Member @ Cookdown

Meet Bruce, Product Director at SquaredUp & Founding member of Cookdown. He product manages cloud integrations and on-prem products bringing the worlds tools together under smart dashboards that understand your data. With a decade-long stint at Citrix under his belt, Bruce's journey from software tester to project management maestro saw him spearhead the transition of XenApp and XenDesktop (aka CVAD) from on-premises to cloud. Passionate about observability and sustainable computing, Bruce is your go-to guru for navigating the complexities of both cloud and on-prem software. When he's not orchestrating innovation at the keyboard, you'll find him conquering miles on his bike, pounding the pavement running, or enjoying precious moments with his family.

Jan Pettersson

System Specialist @ Umeå University

Jan started with MOM 2000 in 2002 and has a wide knowledge of the whole Microsoft platform. His team at the university takes care of everything but network infrastructure like AD, ADFS, Skype, SCOM, Exchange, EPiServer, VMWARE, Biztalk, IIS and SQL. The most crucial infrastructure though is the campus restaurant’s menus scraped via PowerShell and displayed on a SquaredUp Dashboard.

Nathan Foreman

Solutions Architect of Advanced Products @ Cookdown

Nathan is the Solutions Architect of Advanced Products at Cookdown, with over ten years of experience in enterprise IT and Infrastructure monitoring and management. He designs and develops both on-prem SCOM management packs as well as cloud solutions, with a focus on bring disconnected platforms closer together. Nathan enjoys speaking in the community, you may have seen him at the Midwest Management Summit, ServiceNow’s Knowledge conference or local user groups.