Today with business continuity and customer focus as primary goals, the
need to identify and fix problems before a service interruption occurs has
increased. Manual checks are tedious, as most of your time goes with
identifying the issue, then concentrating on fixing. We have several
monitoring tools in place which help us identify where a problem has
exactly occurred. They warn about data overflows, slowness, high
utilization etc in advance so that the engineers can fix it, lest there is
a business impact.
Sitescope has client-server architecture with a web-browser allowing
multi-user access. Users can set thresholds for specific characteristics
and can be alerted for critical, error or warning conditions. Sitescope
monitoring capacity is measured in points.
Setting up Sitescope for your project:
Firstly you need to understand your environment, below are some of
questions that will help you gather the requirements.
How would be the network connectivity between Sitescope servers and the applications? Proxies, Firewalls and routers can block communication.
Define the communication mechanism (HTTP, HTTPS, NetBios, Telnet)
I’ll be back with few other monitoring tools in my later posts.
need to identify and fix problems before a service interruption occurs has
increased. Manual checks are tedious, as most of your time goes with
identifying the issue, then concentrating on fixing. We have several
monitoring tools in place which help us identify where a problem has
exactly occurred. They warn about data overflows, slowness, high
utilization etc in advance so that the engineers can fix it, lest there is
a business impact.
Sitescope is an agentless monitoring software used to monitor the
availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures, including
servers, operating systems, network and Internet services, applications and
application components.
availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures, including
servers, operating systems, network and Internet services, applications and
application components.
Sitescope collects data using an agentless data collection and can send
email alerts and generate reports which include tabular and graphical
performance comparisons at different timings. We have different types of
monitors which help identify and report issues not just the web links but
also any problems with databases, Application server, Hardware Problems,
Network issues, Errors within application logs, web transactions, files,
scripts, utilization of servers and resources, response times and
directories data size.
email alerts and generate reports which include tabular and graphical
performance comparisons at different timings. We have different types of
monitors which help identify and report issues not just the web links but
also any problems with databases, Application server, Hardware Problems,
Network issues, Errors within application logs, web transactions, files,
scripts, utilization of servers and resources, response times and
directories data size.
Sitescope has client-server architecture with a web-browser allowing
multi-user access. Users can set thresholds for specific characteristics
and can be alerted for critical, error or warning conditions. Sitescope
monitoring capacity is measured in points.
Setting up Sitescope for your project:
Firstly you need to understand your environment, below are some of
questions that will help you gather the requirements.
How would be the network connectivity between Sitescope servers and the applications? Proxies, Firewalls and routers can block communication.
Define the communication mechanism (HTTP, HTTPS, NetBios, Telnet)
Identify level of security for Sitescope to access information (administrator privileges, proxies, SSL, SSH)
Install the specific drivers or clients.
A remote server profile can be created defining permission's between the remote server and Sitescope server
Install the specific drivers or clients.
A remote server profile can be created defining permission's between the remote server and Sitescope server
Identify, what is that you want Sitescope to alert?
Once you have all answers in place you may proceed with the set-up and configure the alerts accordingly. Select the category (eg error if, warning if). The category will trigger the alerts. Apply further customization to get appropriate errors/warnings/reports.
Once you have all answers in place you may proceed with the set-up and configure the alerts accordingly. Select the category (eg error if, warning if). The category will trigger the alerts. Apply further customization to get appropriate errors/warnings/reports.
I’ll be back with few other monitoring tools in my later posts.
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