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<!DOCTYPE FL_Course SYSTEM "https://www.flane.de/dtd/fl_course095.dtd"><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://portal.flane.de/css/xml-course.xsl"?><course productid="33543" language="en" source="https://portal.flane.de/ibb/en/xml-course/opentext-ss120-202105" lastchanged="2025-07-29T12:18:23+02:00" parent="https://portal.flane.de/ibb/en/xml-courses"><title>SS120 - SiteScope 2021.05 Essentials</title><productcode>SS120-202105</productcode><vendorcode>MF</vendorcode><vendorname>OpenText</vendorname><fullproductcode>MF-SS120-202105</fullproductcode><version>1.0</version><objective>&lt;p&gt;Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
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&lt;li&gt;Provide an overview of SiteScope installation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Design a scalable and easy-to-manage monitoring strategy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Design an efficient alerting mechanism&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Efficiently configure individual monitoring entities&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Implement a monitoring system leveraging best practices for grouping and alerting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Design enterprise-level reports&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Apply best practices to SiteScope deployment and management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Demonstrate mastery of advanced techniques for monitor configuration, grouping, design, and report and alert generation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use templates and repeatable patterns in the creation of groups, monitors, reports, and alerts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Demonstrate architectural knowledge of SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</objective><essentials>&lt;p&gt;To be successful in this course, you should have the following prerequisites or knowledge:
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&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Administrative and network experience&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enterprise applications, such as a database server&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</essentials><audience>&lt;p&gt;This course is recommended for both new and experienced SiteScope users, system administrators,
operations team members, and anyone responsible for the installation and maintenance of critical
systems using SiteScope.&lt;/p&gt;</audience><contents>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Module 1: Course Overview&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 2: Introduction to SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 3: Installing SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 4: Monitoring Basics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 5: Planning and Designing a Monitoring Strategy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 6: Configuring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 7: Configuring Remote Servers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 8: Configuring and Using Templates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 9: Using Regular Expressions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 10: Configuring Alerts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 11: Using Reports&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 12: Working with SiteScope Dashboard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 13: SiteScope Unified Console&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 14: SiteScope Tools&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 15: Monitoring with SiteScope-I&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 16: Monitoring with SiteScope-II&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 17: Monitoring with SiteScope-III&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 18: SiteScope Integrations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 19: Administration and Maintenance of SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 20: SiteScope Server Health and Statistics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 21: Running SiteScop eSecurely&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Module 22: Using SiteScope APIs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</contents><outline>&lt;h5&gt;Module 1: Course Overview&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Install SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Design a scalable and easy-to-manage monitoring strategy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configure individual monitoring entities&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Evaluate business requirements, engage in capacity planning, estimate resource usages, and size the SiteScope architecture accordingly&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Implement a monitoring system, leveraging best practices for grouping andalerting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Design enterprise-level reports&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Apply best practices to SiteScope deployment and management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use techniques for monitor configuration&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use templates to create groups, monitors, reports, and alerts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Perform on-going maintenance and troubleshooting of the monitoring solution&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Perform maintenance and administrative techniques&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Develop practical skills in SiteScope monitor administration and diagnostics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Perform common SiteScope integrations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Communicate with SSL clients&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use the health mechanism of SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 2: Introduction to SiteScope&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify the key features of SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Explore the SiteScope architecture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with the SiteScope monitoring model&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the SiteScope monitoring methods&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 3: Installing SiteScope&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify key input requirements for installing SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the supported platforms and target systems&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Install an evaluation copy of SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with the SiteScope Configuration tool&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe the SiteScope licensing model&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Navigating through the SiteScope interface&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Module 4: Monitoring Basics &lt;/h4&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify the overall workflow in SiteScope including&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Creating groups&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adding monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configuring an alert and taking a corrective action&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Viewing the dashboard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Generating a report&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 5: Planning and Designing a Monitoring Strategy&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify the best practices in SiteScope monitoring methodology&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use a best practice-based approach for planning a SiteScope deployment and monitoring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify heartbeats and dependencies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with the top-level grouping model&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use a best practice-based approach for developing a grouping model&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 6: Configuring &lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Create and configure groups&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create and configure monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 7: Configuring Remote Servers&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Define remote servers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with remote server&amp;rsquo;s user interface&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with SiteScope UNIX adapters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify troubleshooting and limitations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use Internet Protocol (IP) v6 support in SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 8: Configuring and Using Templates&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify the role of templates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create and modify user-defined templates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deploy templates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use Publish Template Changes Wizard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the need for importing and exporting templates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with Solution templates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 9: Using Regular Expressions&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Define regular expressions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify regular expressions and their syntax in SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create basic regular expressions with the help of content matching&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use the regular expression tool to build expressions incrementally&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use regular expression substitution&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the considerations while using regular expressions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 10: Configuring Alerts&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Define alerts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use alert classes and associations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create alerts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use email alerts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with script alerts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Define trigger frequency of alerts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the purpose of alert filters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with alert templates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 11: Using Reports&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;List the business purposes of different reports in a SiteScope deployment&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the different types of reports in SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Generate reports based on business requirements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 12: Working with SiteScope Dashboard&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Describe SiteScope Dashboard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Define Dashboard filters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Customize the Dashboard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;List data in the SiteScope Dashboard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use the Global Search and Replace feature&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use Quick Search&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 13: SiteScope Unified Console&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Describe Unified console&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Multi-view, Event console and Ops View Overview&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Define filters in Event console&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Customize Multi-View&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create monitors, group using Manage View&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Monitor using Self-Service Use Case&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 14: SiteScope Tools&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Describe SiteScope Tools&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use SiteScope Tools&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Access Tools from the Dashboard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use monitor-specific tools when creating monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 15: Monitoring with SiteScope-I&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify monitor categories&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the functionality of key monitors within the following categories:&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Network monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Server monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Virtualization and Cloud monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 16: Monitoring with SiteScope-II&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify the functionality of key monitors within the following categories:&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Application monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;BIG Data monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Database monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Media monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Web Transaction monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 17: Monitoring with SiteScope-III&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify the functionality of key monitors within the following categories:&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Generic monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Integration monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Custom monitors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 18: SiteScope Integrations&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Describe integration features of SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Describe SiteScope and OBM integration&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Integrate SiteScope with OBM&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Other Integrations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 19: Administration and Maintenance of SiteScope&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Describe critical SiteScope directories and files&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Back up SiteScope&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Set SiteScope preferences&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 20: SiteScope Server Health and Statistics&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Explore SiteScope health and health groups&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Analyze SiteScope health monitor data&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with the SiteScope health user interface&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use server statistics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Interpret SiteScope server load statistics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use log files&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 21: Running SiteScop eSecurely&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Harden the SiteScope platform using various configuration and setup options&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Configure SiteScope to use Transport Layer Security (TLS)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Work with SSH clients&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use Hardening Tool&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;CyberArk Integration&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5&gt;Module 22: Using SiteScope APIs&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Describe the capabilities of the SiteScope Public APIs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use SiteScope SOAP APIs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use SiteScope REST APIs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</outline><objective_plain>Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:



- Provide an overview of SiteScope installation
- Design a scalable and easy-to-manage monitoring strategy
- Design an efficient alerting mechanism
- Efficiently configure individual monitoring entities
- Implement a monitoring system leveraging best practices for grouping and alerting
- Design enterprise-level reports
- Apply best practices to SiteScope deployment and management
- Demonstrate mastery of advanced techniques for monitor configuration, grouping, design, and report and alert generation
- Use templates and repeatable patterns in the creation of groups, monitors, reports, and alerts
- Demonstrate architectural knowledge of SiteScope</objective_plain><essentials_plain>To be successful in this course, you should have the following prerequisites or knowledge:



- Administrative and network experience
- Enterprise applications, such as a database server</essentials_plain><audience_plain>This course is recommended for both new and experienced SiteScope users, system administrators,
operations team members, and anyone responsible for the installation and maintenance of critical
systems using SiteScope.</audience_plain><contents_plain>- Module 1: Course Overview
- Module 2: Introduction to SiteScope
- Module 3: Installing SiteScope
- Module 4: Monitoring Basics
- Module 5: Planning and Designing a Monitoring Strategy
- Module 6: Configuring
- Module 7: Configuring Remote Servers
- Module 8: Configuring and Using Templates
- Module 9: Using Regular Expressions
- Module 10: Configuring Alerts
- Module 11: Using Reports
- Module 12: Working with SiteScope Dashboard
- Module 13: SiteScope Unified Console
- Module 14: SiteScope Tools
- Module 15: Monitoring with SiteScope-I
- Module 16: Monitoring with SiteScope-II
- Module 17: Monitoring with SiteScope-III
- Module 18: SiteScope Integrations
- Module 19: Administration and Maintenance of SiteScope
- Module 20: SiteScope Server Health and Statistics
- Module 21: Running SiteScop eSecurely
- Module 22: Using SiteScope APIs</contents_plain><outline_plain>Module 1: Course Overview


- Install SiteScope
- Design a scalable and easy-to-manage monitoring strategy
- Configure individual monitoring entities
- Evaluate business requirements, engage in capacity planning, estimate resource usages, and size the SiteScope architecture accordingly
- Implement a monitoring system, leveraging best practices for grouping andalerting
- Design enterprise-level reports
- Apply best practices to SiteScope deployment and management
- Use techniques for monitor configuration
- Use templates to create groups, monitors, reports, and alerts
- Perform on-going maintenance and troubleshooting of the monitoring solution
- Perform maintenance and administrative techniques
- Develop practical skills in SiteScope monitor administration and diagnostics
- Perform common SiteScope integrations
- Communicate with SSL clients
- Use the health mechanism of SiteScope

Module 2: Introduction to SiteScope


- Identify the key features of SiteScope
- Explore the SiteScope architecture
- Work with the SiteScope monitoring model
- Identify the SiteScope monitoring methods

Module 3: Installing SiteScope


- Identify key input requirements for installing SiteScope
- Identify the supported platforms and target systems
- Install an evaluation copy of SiteScope
- Work with the SiteScope Configuration tool
- Describe the SiteScope licensing model
- Navigating through the SiteScope interface
Module 4: Monitoring Basics 


- Identify the overall workflow in SiteScope including
- Creating groups
- Adding monitors
- Configuring an alert and taking a corrective action
- Viewing the dashboard
- Generating a report

Module 5: Planning and Designing a Monitoring Strategy


- Identify the best practices in SiteScope monitoring methodology
- Use a best practice-based approach for planning a SiteScope deployment and monitoring
- Identify heartbeats and dependencies
- Work with the top-level grouping model
- Use a best practice-based approach for developing a grouping model

Module 6: Configuring 


- Create and configure groups
- Create and configure monitors

Module 7: Configuring Remote Servers


- Define remote servers
- Work with remote server’s user interface
- Work with SiteScope UNIX adapters
- Identify troubleshooting and limitations
- Use Internet Protocol (IP) v6 support in SiteScope

Module 8: Configuring and Using Templates


- Identify the role of templates
- Create and modify user-defined templates
- Deploy templates
- Use Publish Template Changes Wizard
- Identify the need for importing and exporting templates
- Work with Solution templates

Module 9: Using Regular Expressions


- Define regular expressions
- Identify regular expressions and their syntax in SiteScope
- Create basic regular expressions with the help of content matching
- Use the regular expression tool to build expressions incrementally
- Use regular expression substitution
- Identify the considerations while using regular expressions

Module 10: Configuring Alerts


- Define alerts
- Use alert classes and associations
- Create alerts
- Use email alerts
- Work with script alerts
- Define trigger frequency of alerts
- Identify the purpose of alert filters
- Work with alert templates

Module 11: Using Reports


- List the business purposes of different reports in a SiteScope deployment
- Identify the different types of reports in SiteScope
- Generate reports based on business requirements

Module 12: Working with SiteScope Dashboard


- Describe SiteScope Dashboard
- Define Dashboard filters
- Customize the Dashboard
- List data in the SiteScope Dashboard
- Use the Global Search and Replace feature
- Use Quick Search

Module 13: SiteScope Unified Console


- Describe Unified console
- Multi-view, Event console and Ops View Overview
- Define filters in Event console
- Customize Multi-View
- Create monitors, group using Manage View
- Monitor using Self-Service Use Case

Module 14: SiteScope Tools


- Describe SiteScope Tools
- Use SiteScope Tools
- Access Tools from the Dashboard
- Use monitor-specific tools when creating monitors

Module 15: Monitoring with SiteScope-I


- Identify monitor categories
- Identify the functionality of key monitors within the following categories:
- Network monitors
- Server monitors
- Virtualization and Cloud monitors

Module 16: Monitoring with SiteScope-II


- Identify the functionality of key monitors within the following categories:
- Application monitors
- BIG Data monitors
- Database monitors
- Media monitors
- Web Transaction monitors

Module 17: Monitoring with SiteScope-III


- Identify the functionality of key monitors within the following categories:
- Generic monitors
- Integration monitors
- Custom monitors

Module 18: SiteScope Integrations


- Describe integration features of SiteScope
- Describe SiteScope and OBM integration
- Integrate SiteScope with OBM
- Other Integrations

Module 19: Administration and Maintenance of SiteScope


- Describe critical SiteScope directories and files
- Back up SiteScope
- Set SiteScope preferences

Module 20: SiteScope Server Health and Statistics


- Explore SiteScope health and health groups
- Analyze SiteScope health monitor data
- Work with the SiteScope health user interface
- Use server statistics
- Interpret SiteScope server load statistics
- Use log files

Module 21: Running SiteScop eSecurely


- Harden the SiteScope platform using various configuration and setup options
- Configure SiteScope to use Transport Layer Security (TLS)
- Work with SSH clients
- Use Hardening Tool
- CyberArk Integration

Module 22: Using SiteScope APIs


- Describe the capabilities of the SiteScope Public APIs
- Use SiteScope SOAP APIs
- Use SiteScope REST APIs</outline_plain><duration unit="d" days="5">5 days</duration><pricelist><price country="DE" currency="EUR">4000.00</price></pricelist><miles/></course>