SS120 – SiteScope 2021.05 Essentials

Module 1: Course Overview

• Install SiteScope
• Design a scalable and easy-to-manage monitoring strategy
• Configure individual monitoring entities
• Evaluate business requirements, engage in capacity planning, estimate resource usages, and size the SiteScope architecture accordingly
• Implement a monitoring system, leveraging best practices for grouping andalerting
• Design enterprise-level reports
• Apply best practices to SiteScope deployment and management
• Use techniques for monitor configuration
• Use templates to create groups, monitors, reports, and alerts
• Perform on-going maintenance and troubleshooting of the monitoring solution
• Perform maintenance and administrative techniques
• Develop practical skills in SiteScope monitor administration and diagnostics
• Perform common SiteScope integrations
• Communicate with SSL clients
• Use the health mechanism of SiteScope

Module 2: Introduction to SiteScope

• Identify the key features of SiteScope
• Explore the SiteScope architecture
• Work with the SiteScope monitoring model
• Identify the SiteScope monitoring methods

Module 3: Installing SiteScope

• Identify key input requirements for installing SiteScope
• Identify the supported platforms and target systems
• Install an evaluation copy of SiteScope
• Work with the SiteScope Configuration tool
• Describe the SiteScope licensing model
• Navigating through the SiteScope interface

Module 4: Monitoring Basics

• Identify the overall workflow in SiteScope including
• Creating groups
• Adding monitors
• Configuring an alert and taking a corrective action
• Viewing the dashboard
• Generating a report

Module 5: Planning and Designing a Monitoring Strategy

• Identify the best practices in SiteScope monitoring methodology
• Use a best practice-based approach for planning a SiteScope deployment and monitoring
• Identify heartbeats and dependencies
• Work with the top-level grouping model
• Use a best practice-based approach for developing a grouping model

Module 6: Configuring

• Create and configure groups
• Create and configure monitors

Module 7: Configuring Remote Servers

• Define remote servers
• Work with remote server’s user interface
• Work with SiteScope UNIX adapters
• Identify troubleshooting and limitations
• Use Internet Protocol (IP) v6 support in SiteScope

Module 8: Configuring and Using Templates

• Identify the role of templates
• Create and modify user-defined templates
• Deploy templates
• Use Publish Template Changes Wizard
• Identify the need for importing and exporting templates
• Work with Solution templates

Module 9: Using Regular Expressions

• Define regular expressions
• Identify regular expressions and their syntax in SiteScope
• Create basic regular expressions with the help of content matching
• Use the regular expression tool to build expressions incrementally
• Use regular expression substitution
• Identify the considerations while using regular expressions

Module 10: Configuring Alerts

• Define alerts
• Use alert classes and associations
• Create alerts
• Use email alerts
• Work with script alerts
• Define trigger frequency of alerts
• Identify the purpose of alert filters
• Work with alert templates

Module 11: Using Reports

• List the business purposes of different reports in a SiteScope deployment
• Identify the different types of reports in SiteScope
• Generate reports based on business requirements

Module 12: Working with SiteScope Dashboard

• Describe SiteScope Dashboard
• Define Dashboard filters
• Customize the Dashboard
• List data in the SiteScope Dashboard
• Use the Global Search and Replace feature
• Use Quick Search

Module 13: SiteScope Unified Console

• Describe Unified console
• Multi-view, Event console and Ops View Overview
• Define filters in Event console
• Customize Multi-View
• Create monitors, group using Manage View
• Monitor using Self-Service Use Case

Module 14: SiteScope Tools

• Describe SiteScope Tools
• Use SiteScope Tools
• Access Tools from the Dashboard
• Use monitor-specific tools when creating monitors

Module 15: Monitoring with SiteScope-I

• Identify monitor categories
• Identify the functionality of key monitors within the following categories:
• Network monitors
• Server monitors
• Virtualization and Cloud monitors

Module 16: Monitoring with SiteScope-II

• Identify the functionality of key monitors within the following categories:
• Application monitors
• BIG Data monitors
• Database monitors
• Media monitors
• Web Transaction monitors

Module 17: Monitoring with SiteScope-III

• Identify the functionality of key monitors within the following categories:
• Generic monitors
• Integration monitors
• Custom monitors

Module 18: SiteScope Integrations

• Describe integration features of SiteScope
• Describe SiteScope and OBM integration
• Integrate SiteScope with OBM
• Other Integrations

Module 19: Administration and Maintenance of SiteScope

• Describe critical SiteScope directories and files
• Back up SiteScope
• Set SiteScope preferences

Module 20: SiteScope Server Health and Statistics

• Explore SiteScope health and health groups
• Analyze SiteScope health monitor data
• Work with the SiteScope health user interface
• Use server statistics
• Interpret SiteScope server load statistics
• Use log files

Module 21: Running SiteScop eSecurely

• Harden the SiteScope platform using various configuration and setup options
• Configure SiteScope to use Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• Work with SSH clients
• Use Hardening Tool
• CyberArk Integration

Module 22: Using SiteScope APIs

• Describe the capabilities of the SiteScope Public APIs
• Use SiteScope SOAP APIs
• Use SiteScope REST APIs