computer science

OpenText SiteScope

OpenText SiteScope is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand OpenText SiteScope rather than just read about it. In short: SiteScope is agentless monitoring software focused on monitoring the availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures, including Servers, Network devices and services, Applications and application components, operating systems and various IT enterprise components. SiteScope was originally written by Freshwater Software in 1996, a company acquired by Mercury Interactive in 2001.

Key takeaways

OpenText SiteScope belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect OpenText SiteScope to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of OpenText SiteScope from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

SiteScope is agentless monitoring software focused on monitoring the availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures, including Servers, Network devices and services, Applications and application components, operating systems and various IT enterprise components. SiteScope was originally written by Freshwater Software in 1996, a company acquired by Mercury Interactive in 2001. Mercury Interactive was subsequently acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2006. Version 10.10 was released in July 2009. The current version is 2018.08 (11.51). SiteScope is now marketed by OpenText after its acquisition of Micro Focus. SiteScope tests a web page or a series of web pages using synthetic monitoring. However, it is not limited to web applications and can be used to monitor database servers (Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, etc.), Unix servers, Microsoft Windows servers and many other types of hardware and software. It can export the collected data in real time to OpenText LoadRunner or it can be used in standalone mode.

SiteScope Monitor Types SiteScope supports more than 100 types of application in physical and virtual environments and can monitor servers, databases, applications, networks, web transactions, streaming technology and integration technology, as well as generic elements including files, scripts and directories. SiteScope monitoring supports mid-tier processes, URLs, utilization of servers and response time of the mid-tier processes. Users can set thresholds for specific characteristics and be alerted for critical or warning conditions.

Latest SiteScope Version Information HPE Software merged with Micro Focus in September 2017 and Micro Focus was later acquired by OpenText in January 2023. The latest release of SiteScope is version 11.92.

Prepackaged Monitors Prepackaged monitors include CPU Utilization Monitor, DNS Monitor, Directory Monitor, Disk Space Monitor, Log File Monitor, Memory Monitor, Network Monitor, Ping Monitor, Port Monitor, Script Monitor, Service Monitor, URL Monitor, URL List Monitor, URL Sequence Monitor, Web Server Monitor, WebLogic Application Server Monitor and threshold values.

Solution Templates SiteScope comes with solution templates for monitoring IT infrastructure elements, including Oracle, Microsoft Exchange Server, SAP, WebLogic, and Unix and Linux operating systems. Solution templates are for rapidly deploying specific monitoring based on best practice methodologies. Solution templates deploy a combination of standard SiteScope monitor types and solution-specific monitors with settings that are optimized for monitoring the availability, performance, and health of the target application or system. For example, the solutions for Microsoft Exchange monitoring include performance counter, event log, MAPI, and Exchange application specific monitor types.

Working with Solution Templates The following is an overview of the steps for using Solution Templates in SiteScope.

SiteScope templates are included free with purchase of Sitescope Enter the license into the SiteScope product using the General Preferences page. Open or create a monitor group into which you want to add the solution monitors Select the applicable Solution Template Complete the Solution Template form as indicated Configure alerts for newly created monitors Configure reports for the newly created monitors Manage View SiteScope 11.32 comes with Manage View component in HTML5 for monitoring IT infrastructure elements, The Manage view in the Unified Console provides Self-Service functionality (Monitoring as a Service) to non-admin users, and reduces the amount of monitoring support required from the SiteScope administrator or monitoring team. Manage UI provide mobility: support tablets, most commonly used browsers.

References

External links "Agentless Applications Performance Monitoring Software - SiteScope". Micro Focus. Retrieved 2018-04-25.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with OpenText SiteScope

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what OpenText SiteScope claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to OpenText SiteScope before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about OpenText SiteScope ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of OpenText SiteScope

In research: OpenText SiteScope appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses OpenText SiteScope in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: OpenText SiteScope is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Business software, Computer performance, HP software, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for OpenText SiteScope outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study OpenText SiteScope in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what OpenText SiteScope means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain OpenText SiteScope out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is OpenText SiteScope in simple terms?

Why does OpenText SiteScope matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study OpenText SiteScope?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on OpenText SiteScope.