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Standard Monitor Types
The standard monitor types are divided into categories based on the type of system or component that they can monitor. The categories are as follows:
The monitor types in each category are listed in tabular for below. Each table includes the name of the monitor, a description of its use, an overview note of activation requirements, and which SiteScope operating system platforms support the monitor type. Click the hyperlinks in the tables to view more detailed information about each monitor type.
Network Services Monitors
Network Services monitors test networked applications and services by simulating end user actions. These include the following:
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Monitor Type |
Description |
Requirements Overview |
SiteScope Platform |
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Compares or combine readings from two SNMP, Script, or Database monitors and perform an arithmetic operation on the results. |
SiteScope License, two Script, SNMP, or Database monitors configured. |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Used to test connectivity to databases and performs queries to verify that data can be retrieved. |
SiteScope License, applicable database driver (may require download), connection information |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Checks a Domain Name Server and verifies that the DNS server is accepting requests, and also verifies that the address for a specific domain name can be found. |
SiteScope License |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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A container monitor that verifies an online transaction by checking the complete chain of processes and actions, including retrieval of Web pages, e-mail notifications, back-end databases, and extranet applications. |
SiteScope License, other applicable monitors configured individually |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Connects to an FTP server, verifies that a file can be retrieved. Reports download times and can be used to compare file contents. |
SiteScope License, FTP server |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Verifies that a mail server is accepting requests, and that messages can be sent and retrieved. |
SiteScope License, e-mail account access |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Verify that applications can send e-mail and attachments using the Messaging Application Program Interface on Microsoft Exchange Servers. |
SiteScope License, Exchange account permissions |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Query network appliances such as routers and switches to monitor and report network traffic levels. |
SiteScope License |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Checks that specified hosts are available via the network to verify critical connections. |
SiteScope License |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Checks if a specified port used by a particular service is open and is accepting connections. |
SiteScope License |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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The Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) Monitor is used to monitor a variety of streaming media files including: .wav, .au, .rm, .mov, .mpg media files and sources. Other media monitors are included for other media types. |
SiteScope License, URL of target media content |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Use this monitor to browse, select, and read up to ten OID values from an SNMP-enabled device. Can browse agent OID's based on a vendor-supplied or custom MIB file. |
SiteScope License, enabled SNMP agent, host address, and applicable MIB. |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Reads a value from an SNMP-enabled device. Many network devices support the SNMP protocol as a way of monitoring the performance and system status. |
SiteScope License, enabled SNMP agent, host address and applicable OID. |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Reads SNMP traps sent to the SiteScope application by SNMP devices. |
SiteScope License, available SNMP port, SNMP agents configured to sent to SiteScope host. |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Verifies availability, content, and access time for specified URLs. SiteScope takes advantage of Java's integrated SSL support to monitor secure HTTPS URLs in addition to HTTP URLs |
SiteScope License, extra set up steps may be required for HTTPS monitoring. |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Simulates a user's session across several Web pages. Javascript and other embedded program objects are not directly supported. |
SiteScope License, account access may be needed depending on intended use. |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Queries a Web Service by sending a SOAP Request to applicable servers. |
SiteScope License, WSDL/SOAP URL |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
Server Monitors
Server monitors measure server resource and operating system attributes. These include the following:
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Monitor Type |
Description |
Requirements Overview |
SiteScope Platform |
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The CPU Utilization Monitor reports the percentage of CPU currently in use to ensure that you know if the CPU is being overloaded. |
SiteScope License, remote connection profile. |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Verifies that an IP address can be obtained from a DHCP server. |
SiteScope License, Java-based DHCP libraries (download required) |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors the percentage and amount of disk space currently in use. |
SiteScope License, remote connection, diskperf setting required on remote Windows 2000/2003 servers. |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Measures virtual memory usage on servers. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Measures network's saturation on the SiteScope server based on packet errors, throughput (bits/second), and open connections. |
SiteScope License |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Verifies that specified processes and services are running on servers. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Reads Web server logs and reports data on hits, bytes, errors, hits per minute, and bytes per minute. It supports Netscape Enterprise, Netscape FastTrack, Microsoft IIS, O'Reilly WebSite, and any Web server that uses the common log format. |
SiteScope License, common log format files |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
Application Monitors
Application monitors are designed to query specific network applications and servers. Several of these monitors are specific to Microsoft Windows environments. These include the following:
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Monitor Type |
Description |
Requirements Overview |
SiteScope Platform |
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Monitors Apache server availability statistics like bytes per second, requests per second, and CPU load. |
SiteScope License, Apache Server statistics enabled |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors server statistics for Microsoft ASP Servers such as total bytes per seconds, requests queued, and errors per second. |
SiteScope License, remote connection, applicable account permissions |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Monitors a wide array of server statistics and data for BroadVision 5.5 servers |
SiteScope License, remote connection information |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors Check Point firewall parameters such as fwEvent, fwRejected, and fwLogged. |
SiteScope License, OID information |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors Cisco Works server parameters using SNMP. |
SiteScope License, remote connection information, applicable MIB file, OID information |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitor Citrix server parameters using performance counters. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Monitors ColdFusion server statistics like page hits per second, Queued Requests, or Avg Req Time. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Reads server data for IBM DB2 database servers such as rem_cons_in, local_cons, agents_waiting_on_token. |
SiteScope License, applicable account permissions, DB2 client and libraries installed and configured on SiteScope server |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Reads data for an ATG Dynamo platform using SNMP such as dbFreeResources, sysNumErrorMsgs, and sysFreeMem. |
SiteScope License, remote connection information, OID information |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Reads performance statistics of a F5 Big-IP load balancing server. |
SiteScope License, host name, applicable MIB file |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors performance statistics for Microsoft Internet Information Servers (IIS) including post requests per second, bytes sent per second, and total not found errors. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Monitors server performance summaries on SunONE/iPlanet 4.1, 6.0 and Netscape 3.x servers. |
SiteScope License, remote connection information |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors server performance statistics on Oracle9i Application Servers such as request.maxTime, request.active, connection.maxTime, and Decline.count. |
SiteScope License, connection URL, Web-caching enabled on Oracle server. |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors server performance statistics on Oracle database servers (versions 8i and 9i plus some earlier versions) using a JDBC connection. |
SiteScope License, database driver, connection information |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors a Real Media Stream or RealSystem media files. |
SiteScope License, Real Media Player client libraries |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Monitors server statistics on RealNetworks streaming media servers. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Checks performance statistics of a SAP server. |
SiteScope License, SAP client software |
Windows NT/2000 |
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Monitors SilverStream server statistics such as current load, total sessions, and average request process time |
SiteScope License |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors statistics from Microsoft SQL Servers for key database server performance parameters. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Monitors server performance summaries on SunONE/iPlanet 6.0 Web servers via content on the XML status pages. |
SiteScope License, SunONE XML server statistics option enabled |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors server performance statistics of Sybase database servers including data from the Memory, Locks, Cache, Transactions, and SqlSvr objects. |
SiteScope License, Sybase ASE server, Sybase Central client |
Windows NT/2000 |
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Use this monitor to check performance parameters for BEA Tuxedo Application Servers. |
SiteScope License, Tuxedo Workstation component, applicable account permissions |
Windows NT/2000 |
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Checks BEA WebLogic 5.x server statistics parameters using SNMP. |
SiteScope License, WebLogic Server SNMP Agent enabled, OID information |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors performance counters for BEA WebLogic 6.x and 7.0 Servers. |
SiteScope License, remote connection information, applicable WebLogic server account permissions |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors a wide range of performance counters for IBM WebSphere Application Servers such as MemoryUse, BeanPoolSize, ActiveThreads, ConnectionWaitTime, Timeouts, and ConnectionTime. |
SiteScope License, WebSphere Administrator's Console or applicable libraries, connection information, applicable account permissions |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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WebSphere Performance Servlet uses a special performance servlet for monitoring the performance statistics of IBM WebSphere Application Servers . |
SiteScope License, WebSphere Performance Servlet, connection information |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Verifies availability of media streams or files in the Microsoft Windows Media format. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Monitors Microsoft Windows Media Server statistics like active streams, stream errors per second, or late reads per second. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
Advanced Monitors
Advanced Monitors are special purpose monitors to provide specific functionality. These include the following:
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Monitor Type |
Description |
Requirements Overview |
SiteScope Platform |
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A container monitor useful for checking the status of a set of monitors or monitor groups. |
SiteScope License, two or more other monitors |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Checks the file count and directory size on remote servers. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Checks the size, age, and, optionally, the content of a file. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Checks an LDAP server by sending a password authentication request and reports the result. |
SiteScope License, applicable account information |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Checks the internal and external hyperlinks on a Web site to ensure that links return content and they can be reached. |
SiteScope License |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors a log file to generate warnings and errors based upon content found in the file. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors one or more log files in a single directory to generate warnings and errors based upon content found in the file. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Connects to a news (NNTP) server and verifies that groups can be retrieved. |
SiteScope License, applicable account information |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Verifies that a dial-up connection can be made to an ISP or Remote Access server and measures performance over the dial-up connection. |
SiteScope License |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Watches one of the available Windows NT Event Logs (System, Application, or Security). |
SiteScope License, remote connection, event log information |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Monitors the values of Windows NT performance statistics. These are the same statistics used by the Performance Monitor application under Windows NT. |
SiteScope License, remote connection |
Windows NT/2000 ONLY |
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Verifies operation of a Radius server by sending an authentication request. |
SiteScope License, connection and account information |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Verifies that a operating system shell script or batch file executes correctly. Can be used to execute script tasks at regular intervals. |
SiteScope License, remote connection, applicable script file and account permissions, |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Retrieves a Web page and reports one or more values from the content based on user defined match criteria. |
SiteScope License, applicable regular expression |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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Monitors the availability of an entire list of URLs, rather than defining several separate URL monitors. |
SiteScope License, URL list as text file |
Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Solaris |
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