OpenText SiteScope Reviews

We are using OpenText SiteScope for custom monitoring related to end-user requirements, such as keyword monitoring on logs. We utilize OpenText SiteScope for ICMP-based monitoring, including ping monitoring, application availability performance, SSL monitoring, and URL monitoring.

There are multiple features related to OpenText SiteScope monitoring that I have found to be very useful, such as SSL monitoring. If SSL is present as a file in a server, then OpenText SiteScope is a very effective tool to monitor when that certificate expires. It provides comprehensive information related to SSL certificates and log monitoring.

If any kind of required keyword monitoring is present in the log file, OpenText SiteScope has excellent functionality for monitoring. It is very easy to configure and obtain the correct information related to end-user requirements.

The agentless monitoring feature of OpenText SiteScope is particularly impressive and easy to configure and gather information from. According to the operations team perspective, there is no impact related to resource management from the agentless monitoring. It demonstrates very low resource consumption related to its functionality.

I work in technology, and my primary use case involves using tools like OpenShift, OpenText, and other microfocus tools to manage processes across different systems.

It allows me to configure and schedule tasks efficiently across multiple servers and in sequence.

Our customers use Micro Focus SiteScope mainly for infrastructure monitoring, but it is also capable of application and database monitoring.

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.

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.

In terms of issues with Micro Focus SiteScope, some that we've run into were unintended, for example, extra executions of monitors and some false alerts when there were problems connecting to endpoints or there were issues with the application that sometimes resulted in false positives. We had a few issues with the way time zones were configured when the system time differed from the time indicated during the monitoring, but those were just little things that weren't too bad.

As far as the limitations of Micro Focus SiteScope, the types of scripting files that can be executed are rather limited unless you go to some third-party plugins. These are the areas for improvement in the solution.

It's used for monitoring all of our internal URLs, certificate expiration dates, as well as database connectivity, database queries, and internal URL availability.

Being able to do your queries from a single location and being able to nest all your monitors within folders is valuable. It makes it easy to reference or store your monitors in a library, and then you can use that for having a single dashboard that shows you your URLs for a specific product. We have hundreds of products. So, it makes it much easier to track them.

The primary use case is for monitoring the infrastructure and Applications performance and availability.

Basically we're  monitoring the   Servers Resources (CPU , Memory , Network , Disks) and we're Monitoring the Availability of our Servers through Ping.

the most valuable feature we're using is  Monitoring the Urls and APis Web Services and we can configure a Business transaction for monitoring a group of Web Services or specific Workflow

Also We're  monitoring the important Services for proactively tracking the services status  and getting alerts if any application service Down.

also we're using the  SiteScope For monitoring the  company's logs, script files,so we will get Alerts if a specific Keywords  or Errors are existing on this Logs.

 also we're using the SiteScope For monitoring the  Network Services and network Bandwidth utilization through SNMP  

the Sitescoep has a predefined solutions templates which contains the best practices that can be easy applied for monitoring Databases , Active Directory , VM Ware Environment , Microsoft Exchange, iis , tomcat and a lot.

it helps us track the Overall infrastructure healthy status , and can guides us proactively identify issues.

Minimize the MTTR Services and Applications by Pinpointing the issue or the failure on the infrastructure , Database , Network  or in the Web Services so we just  start troubleshooting the part which include the Alert and save troubleshooting the other Sides. 

The solution is primarily used for monitoring the servers, log files, and network devices.

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.