Sitescope Monitoring Tool Features and Monitors

Why Sitescope is called Agentless Monitoring Tool?

    HP SiteScope monitors the application/infrastructure/server/operating system without installing any agent software on the system to be monitored. This feature makes the installation, usage and maintenance of Sitescope simpler when compared with the any performance monitoring tools like Diagnostics.

Sitescope Monitors:

    Sitescope has also upgraded and changed drastically to meet the rapidly changing technologies and environments like virtualization and cloud computing. Using Sitescope we can monitor different web servers, application servers and database servers. We can also monitor operating systems Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX. It has more than 100 monitors including Weblogic, Websphere, SAP, SIEBEL, SNMP, LDAP, Network Monitor etc. HP SiteScope can also monitor cpu utilization, response time, disk space, and resource availability of a variety of host types and application platforms.

Sitescope Features:

    SiteScope provides failover capabilities, simultaneous monitoring of large number of systems, and support for secure connections. Sitescope is a web-based application, we have the flexibility of accessing at anywhere. It consists of mainly broswer-based interface, scheduler, monitors, alerts and reports. Sitescope can be installed on a single server running as a service or a process. This results in quick installation and easy monitoring configuration.

    HP Sitescope monitors its own performance, availability, configuration problems and critical server load when it is configured to report to HP Business Availability Center(BAC). HP recently developed Sitescope Android Application where we can monitor the performance and availability of application through the Sitescope Android Application.

Browser-based Interface: Manages end user status information requests, configuration change requests, and access control.

Scheduler:  By using scheduler we can create different type of running of monitors for particular time period, alert creation and report generation.

Monitors: It collects different type of performance and availability information about the system being monitored.

Alerts: HP Sitescope alert is one of the best feature, based on the configuration the alerts will be triggered automatically to our e-mail.

Reports: We can create different type of reports of monitored data for analysis and reporting purposes. 

Sitescope Integration with Loadrunner:

    We can also integrate the sitescope to controller in the loadrunner. We can install sitescope in the same machine as the controller but it is not advisable. I prefer to install the sitescope on dedicated server and make sure we can access the sitescope from the controller machine. 

How to Access Sitescope:

    Sitescope can be accessed from the web browser. The default address is http://localhost:8080/SiteScope. On windows machine we can access by clicking Start > Programs > HP SiteScope > Open HP SiteScope.