What’s Sitescope?
Posted: April 21st, 2008 | Author: TnT Admin | Filed under: Products | Tags: Products, SiteScope | No Comments »HP SiteScope is an agentless monitoring solution which is designed to ensure and performance distributed IT infrastructures, such as servers, OS, network services, applications, and application components. This web-based infrastructure monitoring solution is lightweight, highly customizable, and does not require that data collection agents be installed on the production systems. (Source: Business Technology Optimization)
With SiteScope, you are able to receive the real-time information from the components in your infrastructure and stay abreast of any performance issues or bottlenecks with alerts and reports. For more information with regards to the sales talk (as usual), you can refer to the official vendor. What’s beneficial about SiteScope? SiteScope utilizies agentless monitoring technology that is similar to LoadRunner (refer to “How does the monitoring work in LoadRunner?” for information on LoadRunner monitoring mechanism) which eliminates the need for installation of (intrusive) agents on the system being monitored. What it does is to query native monitors on the infrastructure components for performance data and consolidate the information on the central SiteScope server.
One other key feature that SiteScope has to offer is the used of group templates. It allows standardization of monitoring the organization and speeding the monitoring deployment through groups and alerts. Also, not to mentioned that SiteScope is fully integrated with other HP solutions such as, HP Business Availability Center (BAC), HP Managed Software Solutions, and HP LoadRunner which allows added capabilities in monitoring for different product range. SiteScope is licensed based on point system instead of the number of servers you are installed SiteScope. A given point is been deducted based on the number of metric (monitors) you deployed. E.g. If you are monitoring CPU Utilization and Database which cost 1 point each. And you have purchased a 100 points license, the remainder of the available points will be 98 points which you can deploy for other monitorings. When you do not wish to use the monitor the CPU Utilization and Database anymore, the points are being released and you will have the initial 100 points. For more information on the licensing, we highly recommend you to go through the article, “Document ID 50972 – Licensing features of SiteScope” from the support site. Note: A metric is a system resource value, performance parameter, URL, or similar system response.
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