SiteScope User's Guide

Monitor Summary Report

The Monitor Summary report provides you with detailed information about the monitors defined in one or more monitor groups. Use this report to view setup information on particular monitors as well as the organization and makeup of groups of monitors. For example, you can check and compare monitor run frequencies (Update Every setting) if you are having problems with monitor skips. You can also use the report to check for monitor dependencies that can impact alerting. You can use the file export option to export the monitor configuration data to a third-party application such as a spreadsheet or text editor.

Completing the Monitor Summary Report Form

To display the SiteScope Monitor Summary Form, click the Summary link in the SiteScope navigation menu at the top of the SiteScope screen. Alternatively, you can click the Reports button on the navigation bar and click the Monitor Description report link, located at the bottom of the Reports list page. This brings up the SiteScope Monitor Summary Report Form.

Complete the items on the SiteScope Monitor Summary Form as follows:

Report Subject(s)
Choose the monitors or groups of monitors that you want to include in the report. Hold down the shift key to select a set of adjacent groups. Use the CTRL key to select non-adjacent items.

Display Columns
Choose the monitor information to display in the report columns. Hold down the shift key to select a set of adjacent groups. Use the CTRL key to select non-adjacent items. Data is shown in the report for the selected parameters only if the particular option has been selected, such as Disabled and Frequency, or if a value has been supplied, such as Monitor Descriptions. If the option or value has not been defined in the particular monitor setup, the column is blank for that parameter for that monitor.

Show Parameters
Check this box if you want the report to contain the parameters defined for each monitor. This option includes a list of the active options defined for each selected monitor in a single table cell rather than individual columns as with the option above.

Sort By
Choose the monitor parameter to use as a sort key for the report. For example, to have report sorted alphabetically by monitor type, select Monitor Type. Select the radio button below the list box to have the report sorted in Ascending or Descending order using the selected sort key.
Export to File
Check this box to have SiteScope export the Monitor Summary report data to an text file. See the section Exporting Monitor Summary Report Data for more details about this option.

After making your selections, click the Show Report button to generate and display the report. If you have selected the Export to File option, the path and filename to the report file is displayed instead.

Reading the SiteScope Monitor Summary Report

Monitor Summary Report is presented in a table format. The columns that are displayed are determined by the Display Columns selected in the Monitor Summary Report Form. Data in the report include information about the configuration and current settings of monitors in the groups you have selected to include in the report.

Below is an example of a Monitor Summary Report for the Server group running on Windows NT. The report example shown includes the following:

  1. The group name to which the monitor belongs
  2. The display name or text description for each monitor
  3. The frequency at which the monitor is set to run
  4. Whether or not the monitor is disabled
  5. The schedule, if any, used to enable or disable the running of this monitor
  6. A description of the other parameters defined for the monitor, such as disk drive, content match expression, and so forth.
Group Monitor Frequency Disabled Schedule Parameters
Server CPU 1 hour      
Server Disk space on C 1 hour     Disk: C
Server Disk space on D 2 hours     Disk: D
Server Memory 1 hour      
Server Microsoft IIS 1 hour     Web Server: Microsoft|
Server World Wide Web Publishing Service 30 minutes     Service: World Wide Web Publishing Service

Exporting Monitor Summary Report Data

As noted above, you use the Export to File option to have the monitor summary data exported for use by other applications such as spreadsheets. When the Export to File option is enabled, SiteScope writes the data to the filename specified in the File Name box using the selected text format. The file is written into the <SiteScope install path>/SiteScope/htdocs directory. If you do not specify a filename, the default file name is "monSummary.csv" and the default file format is comma-separated text.

To export Monitor Summary Report data to a text file:

  1. Click the Summary link from the navigation links at the top of the SiteScope screen. The Monitor Summary Report form is displayed.
  2. Complete the items on the SiteScope Monitor Summary Form as described above.
  3. Click the Export to File check box near the bottom of the form to enable export of the report data to a delimited text file.
  4. Enter a file name and file extension in the File Name box and select a text file format using the drop-down list for the File Format.
  5. Click the Show Report button to generate the report.

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