OpenText SiteScope Valuable Features

Christopher M Cook - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Service Analyst at Exelon

Our experiences with Micro Focus SiteScope have been mostly positive as we can easily work with multiple monitors and different types of monitors pretty quickly. There are a lot of out-of-the-box solutions for us through Micro Focus SiteScope, so we don't have to do that much custom coding for the vast majority of requests that we get for monitoring. There are some limitations that we've run into and some problems every once in a while, but they've been relatively minor.

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John Boake - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior monitoring engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Being able to create your monitors for monitoring your internal URLs and databases and other things like that is valuable.

It's easy. It's simple to use and straightforward. I've played with some other tools that are not quite as straightforward, but it's straightforward for me. It's easy for me to be able to come in and add in a monitor. For everything I need, it's pretty straightforward.

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Nuno-Carvalho - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at Timestamp ITM

The most valuable feature of SiteScope is its infrastructure monitoring. A significant advantage is that it doesn't require agents to be installed on the target servers for monitoring, making it a non-intrusive monitoring solution.

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Ahmed  Sobhy - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Najtech

the most features that I used and was valuable to our customers is monitoring the APi Web Services and URls , also the Log files monitoring was useful

the integration with the OBM is very Good for providing a consolidation View and central management console.

As the Sitescope Solution is agentless  it does not require more configurations and no downtime on the Monitored Servers Side 

the Solution is easy to use and you can create any custom Monitors 

the Monitor Templates is good for saving the configuration Time , you can apply  the predefined templates on prepared text file contains the Server names.

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Rachit Raj - PeerSpot reviewer
Head -Consulting and Delivery at Avekshaa Technologies

Infrastructure monitoring is the most valuable feature. There may be other features but we are focused on the performance testing execution that happens.

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CB
Engineer at United Airlines

For host monitoring, agentless monitoring requires no installs or special permissions, just a regular user account on the host and firewall access to SSH, WMI, NetBIOS, etc.  

DBQuery, URL, and Web Service monitoring were also valuable until we started using another tool for real transaction monitoring. Now, we rarely need to setup synthetic monitoring for applications, because we have actual user performance data.

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it_user43743 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Technical Service - Monitoring Engineering at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is its ability to do what it’s supposed to do, which is to ensure that you have a wide array of tool-sets to properly monitor your infrastructure. Also, that it’s able to scale properly is valuable.

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DC
Co-Founder at Nobius IT

VM monitoring is pretty good showing good visualizations of how VMs are operating within the context of all the VMs running on the same hypervisor.

The ease of configuration is an advantage as Sitescope simply requires entering a host's credentials and a connection protocol (e.g. SSH, FTP, script, WMI, etc) in order to begin collecting and graphing raw data.

Alerting is basic but functional as a standalone product but provides an additional dimension when used alongside Operations Bridge (which is expensive).

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RK
Senior Technical Pre-Sales Consultant / Project Manager (BSM) at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

SiteScope supports several virtualization technologies (private and public), like AWS, Hyper-V, VMware, etc., without the installation of any extra modules. The dashboard is tablet friendly and supported anywhere on iOS and Android.

It can monitor over a 100 technologies with built-in solution templates (policies). Most importantly, one can even use SiteScope for monitoring application transactions recorded using Vugen.

Finally, SiteScope is available as a container for Docker, which is parts away from the installation & length upgrade procedure.

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TY
Consultant at FB

It's a very good tool. It's user-friendly and it's very good at monitoring the infrastructure and the applications. It's very reliable in our environment and is helping the customers a lot in their monitoring of the application and the infrastructure.

The URL monitoring is excellent.

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HK
Service Assurance, Senior Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product's readymade templates are perfect. It supports us a lot when we don't have much experience with the product. The templates offers us direction to proceed. 

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FG
Unit Manager | Management Systems and Automation at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature of OpenText SiteScope is that it is easy to manage and user-friendly.

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it_user74751 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator with 501-1,000 employees

We use this product for monitoring client user experience. It's easy to template standard monitoring configurations, and automate monitoring configuration. (NOTE: there is some missing functionality in API's). SiteScope has a lot of common API's out of the box, and this saves coding and maintaining these interfaces.

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it_user486648 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Engineer Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's lightweight, and its ability to address numerous gaps in our other monitoring tools. It's a very flexible product so you can run a script out of it, even straight out of the box. Unlike other tools, you can write a script, run it, and integrate it. It's another monitoring tool and also gives the customers, on demand, the ability to pull or have the monitors go out and interrogate the system and validate the health of the system on demand.

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HK
Service Assurance, Senior Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There's no agent you need installed on the servers. In our environment, we have some servers out of our control so we cannot manage them. We use SiteScope to monitor the availability, the resources on the servers, etc. This allows us to do this job without installing agents so there's no need to take care of anything on the server.

The interface is good. It's great for our technical team.

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TK
Managed Services Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I can say for the system environment, SiteScope can be useful.It is easy to monitor using WMI protocol to get CPU,Ram and disk status. Also, you can monitor URL. Managing site scope is not as difficult as its reveal. 

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PS
Sr. Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Simplest tool for monitoring servers, web content, databases and other hardware. Its dashboard is really good.

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it_user364155 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Infrastructure Specialist at Nordea

It's integrated with different monitoring tools, such as AppDynamics. When we perform testing, it gives us a single client for selecting which monitoring data we want for later analysis of the performance of our systems.

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DC
Chief Innovation Officer at SAGGA

Simple deployment: The deployment uses protocols such as NetBios, SSH, WMI, SNMP, which means that any device with any of these protocols will be monitored.

Great monitoring capabilities:  The monitoring capabilities have no limit; whatever you can imagine, you can monitor, even using URL monitors, database query monitors, and formula composite monitors, which are not common in other tools.

Reporting:  You have a lot of reports using different criteria - for example, dates, filters, events, and status - which let you analyze the monitored data, convert it into information and take actions.

Event-based actions: You can simply send an e-mail or take actions like restart the server, restart the service, etc.

Agentless Monitoring

Dynamic Monitoring

Dockers Monitoring

Dependency Configuration

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SS
Senior Support Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I think that the product's ability to monitor the systems and applications are the most valuable features. We get alerts over email if there is an issue. We can also use it for our customer support incident and problem management. SiteScope can be integrated to have tickets created automatically when the alert thresholds are breached.  

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WL
Enterprise System Management at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has multiple monitors that can be deployed OOTB, which includes basic system monitors for CPU, Disk, Memory, NIC's, etc. It does not use an agent, which might tax system resources.

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RS
Performance and Fault-tolerance Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Agentless monitoring
  • Different types of health checks
  • Web-based UI for easy interaction
  • End-to-end monitoring
  • E-mail alert messages along with SMS features
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it_user139164 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Agentless data collection Supporting a big number of monitor metrics View full review »
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OpenText SiteScope
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