SiteScope User's Guide


Introducing Solution Templates

The range of monitor types available with SiteScope give you flexibility in monitoring a variety of systems and services. With the increasing complexity of current network applications, it is difficult to know what is the most effective way of monitor key systems and services. SiteScope Solution Templates are designed to provide rapid deployment of performance and availability monitoring optimized for specific applications and services.

This section describes:

About Solution Templates

Solution templates are special monitor sets

The following table lists Solution Templates available in SiteScope. The following sections contain more information about each solution template and the solution specific monitor types.

Solution Name

Description

Active Directory

Monitors performance and efficiency of Microsoft domain controllers

Exchange Server 2000

Monitors application health, message flow, and usage statistics for Exchange Server 2000

Exchange Server 2003

Monitors application health, message flow, and usage statistics for Exchange Server 2003

Exchange Server 5.5

Monitors application health, message flow, and usage statistics for Exchange Server 5.5

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.

  1. Request the applicable Solution license from Mercury Interactive sales.
  2. Enter the license into the SiteScope product using the General Preferences page.
  3. Open or create a monitor group into which you want to add the solution monitors
  4. Select the applicable Solution Template
  5. Complete the Solution Template form as indicated
  6. Configure alerts for newly created monitors
  7. Configure reports for the newly created monitors