Detailed Course Outline
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