SiteScope Reference Guide

Welcome to the SiteScope Reference Guide.

SiteScope is designed as a versatile solution for monitoring the availability of systems and servers. An important part of SiteScope's versatility is that you can customize the behavior of SiteScope to meet the needs of specific environments and organizational requirements. This reference manual is intended to help you understand and use the many options for customizing SiteScope.

For a general description of SiteScope , as well as for details on administering SiteScope, refer to the SiteScope User's Guide

This guide describes how you can customize SiteScope behavior, capabilities, and display options by working with properties in a number of templates and configuration files used by SiteScope.

This guide contains the following chapters:

Chapter  1    Custom Alert Templates

Describes how to customize SiteScope alert templates to alter the content and format of alert messages.

Chapter  2    Template Properties

Describes the SiteScope monitor and system properties that can be used to customize the data sent using SiteScope alert templates.

Chapter  3    SiteScope Log File Columns

Describes the format and data recorded by SiteScope for each type of monitor.

Chapter  4    SiteScope Configuration Settings

Describes the key names and value settings used by default or that may be included in the SiteScope configuration files to customize and alter the appearance and behavior of SiteScope.

Chapter  5    Remote UNIX Monitoring Adapter Kit

Describes how to create and customize adapter files to enable SiteScope monitoring of different versions of the UNIX operating system.

The SiteScope application comes with the following documentation:

SiteScope User's Guide - describes how to work with SiteScope monitor groups, individual monitors, automated alerts, and reports. This guide also describes administration of SiteScope preferences and settings, user accounts, diagnostic tools, and other features of the SiteScope product.

SiteScope Installation Guide - describes system requirements and how to install SiteScope on UNIX and Windows systems. Also describes SiteScope licensing.

SiteScope Reference Guide - describes advanced topics for customizing SiteScope configuration options and alerts, how to adapt SiteScope to monitor UNIX platforms, and how to read SiteScope monitor logs.

This section is to explain about other docs for SiteScope

To download updated documentation

1. In the Customer Support Web site,

2. Select the product name

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   Note   If SiteScope does not appear, you must add it to your account profile. Click My Account to update your profile.

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3. Click Retrieve. The Documentation page opens and lists the documentation available for the current release and previous releases.

4. Click a document link to download the documentation.

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