Sitescope Tutorial - Best Place to Learn Sitescope Monitoring Tool

In this Sitescope Tutorial, you will learn how to install Sitescope installation requires right resource planning, system architecture design, and a well-planned deployment strategy. Hope this guide will help you install the Sitescope fast.

The following information needs to be gathered for the smooth and successful installation of Sitescope:

Business and technical requirements
What we need to monitor
What level of thresholds represents an error/event
How frequently the system needs to be checked
What actions need to be taken when errors or different events are detected
What automated things need to be done when errors or events are detected
Sitescope server sizing, network location, and environment.

Sitescope License:

Sitescope license is based on points. For example, when we need to monitor CPU resource, we need two points, and for memory two points, and so on and so forth.

This way, we can buy our license based on our requirements and the resources that we want to monitor. We will discuss more on licenses in the succeeding tutorials.

Windows Requirements:

Processor	800 MHz or higher
Operating Systems	Windows 2008 and Windows 2003
Memory	512 MB is sufficient, but the recommended size is 1GB of RAM according to HP
Free Hard Disk	2GB or more
Java	JRE 1.6 or higher to view applets

Linux Requirements:

Processor	800 MHz or higher
Operating Systems	Windows 7 and Windows8 and on any Windows Operating Systemope
Memory	512 MB is sufficient but the recommended size is 1GB of RAM according to HP
Free Hard Disk	2GB or more
Java	JRE 1.6 or higher to view applets

Sitescope Download:

You can download the latest version of Sitescope from this link.

HP has come up with two options:

Community Edition(free for lifetime use) but can be used only for basic monitoring.
Full Version Trial for sixty days where you can explore all the Sitescope features.