SiteScope Monitoring Features

SiteScope provides a set of features which help us to monitor key functionalities of server or web application. SiteScope also has integrated alarming system which can used in server monitoring.

Please refer the features available in SiteScope Tool:

Feature	Description
Agentless architecture	SiteScope application design speeds deployment by eliminating the need to install agent software on the servers and systems you want to monitor
Alert schedules	Gives you the option of enabling alerts during certain times of the day or week
Alert template customization	Lets you customize the data sent in e-mail, pager, and other alert types
Browser interface	View, configure, test, and manage your monitoring environment locally or remotely through a web browser interface
Common file formats	Monitoring data and templates are stored in text file formats allowing you to export a wide range of third party applications
Composite Monitor	Acts as a monitor container allowing you to filter and customize alerting on redundant or parallel systems
Content matching on results	Extend the versatility of monitoring by checking for specific content on web pages, in system logs, in databases, and other systems using the flexibility of regular expressions
Custom monitor API	Develop your own monitor types to adapt and integrate SiteScope with custom applications and environments
Database interoperability	Log monitoring data to a JDBC compliant database for efficient storage and extended reporting with third party analysis tools. SiteScope's Dynamic Update feature can regularly query a database table and automatically create sets of monitors whenever new IP addresses are detected in the database.
Database monitoring	Simulate client interactions with JDBC compliant databases and also monitor database server performance parameters
Diagnostic tools	Use a built-in array of diagnostic tools mirroring monitor functionality to quickly troubleshoot connectivity and monitor issues through the product interface
E-mail monitoring	Verify that business-critical e-mail communications are operating by sending and receiving e-mail messages
End-to-end web based sequence monitoring	Confirm that a complete sequence of web-based, back-end, and e-mail actions are executed correctly and in the proper order using the eBusiness Chain Monitor.
Flexible monitor error thresholds	Select from different parameters and values to set the Error, Warning, and Good status of each monitor.
Fault recovery automation	Automate failure recovery actions by combining system monitoring with versatile Script alerts
Monitor-to-monitor dependency relationships	Build enable-disable relationships between monitors and groups to suppress redundant alerts from sets of monitors that are dependent on the same systems.
Monitor Browser	Quickly view all monitors in your set up and filter according to status, name, type, or other criteria
Multiple SiteScope installations	Link and view multiple SiteScope installations in your environment in a a single interface using the Multi-view feature.
Monitor templates	Speed deployment of your monitoring by creating monitor templates that can rapidly configure common monitors over multiple servers
Remote server monitoring	Monitor systems running on Windows, UNIX, and Linux using SiteScope running on Windows NT/2000 or monitor other Unix systems with SiteScope running on Solaris or Linux
Scheduled maintenance task automation	Automate routine system management tasks by combining system scripts with the flexible Script Monitor
Server performance monitoring	Monitor performance metrics for many popularly used application servers
SiteScope - Topaz Managed Services integration	Integrate SiteScope availability monitoring with Mercury Interactive's remote Topaz Managed Services (TMS) by configuring SiteScope to be an TMS agent
SiteScope - SiteSeer integration	Integrate remote monitoring data from SiteSeer accounts directly to the SiteScope Main Panel
SiteScope - Topaz integration	Integrate SiteScope availability monitoring with Mercury Interactive's Topaz Console by configuring SiteScope to be a Topaz agent
SNMP integration and support	Configure SiteScope to be an SNMP agent reporting to other SNMP management consoles. Conversely, use SiteScope's built in SNMP support to monitor other SNMP enabled devices
System level monitoring	Increase the depth of your monitoring and speed troubleshooting with system resource and log monitoring
URL monitoring	Monitor URL availability and content with versatile URL monitoring options