Module 1: Course Overview
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Welcome and administrative tasks
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Course introduction agenda and storyline
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Introducing the lab environment
Module 2: Introduction to SiteScope
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Identify the concepts and purpose of SiteScope
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Identify the key features of SiteScope
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Explore the SiteScope architecture
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Work with the SiteScope monitoring model
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Identify SiteScope monitoring methods
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Identify SiteScope integration
Module 3: Installing SiteScope
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Identify key input requirements for installing SiteScope
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Identify the supported platforms and target systems
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Install an evaluation copy of SiteScope
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Work with the SiteScope Configuration Tool
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Describe the SiteScope licensing model
Module 4: Overview of the SiteScope GUI
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Navigate through the SiteScope interface
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Identify the various menus and tabs in the SiteScope interface
Module 5: Monitoring Basics
Identify the overall workflow in SiteScope including:
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Creating a group
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Adding a monitor
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Configuring an alert and taking a corrective action
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Viewing the Dashboard
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Generating a report
Module 6: Planning and Designing a Monitoring Strategy
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Identify the best practices in SiteScope monitoring methodology
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Use a best practice-based approach for planning a SiteScope deployment and monitoring
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Identify heartbeats and dependencies
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Work with the top-level grouping model
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Use a best practice-based approach for developing a grouping model
Module 7: Configuring Groups and Monitors
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Create and configure groups
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Identify the SiteScope monitors
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Identify the search filter and tags
Work with monitors to:
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Configure remote servers
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Configure monitor settings
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Configure thresholds
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Use baselines
Module 8: Configuring Remote Servers
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Define remote servers
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Work with the remote servers user interface
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Work with SiteScope UNIX adapters
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Identify troubleshooting and limitations
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Use Internet Protocol (IP) v6 support in Sitescope
Module 9: Configuring and Using Templates
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Identify the role of templates
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Create and modify user-defined templates
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Deploy templates
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Use the Publish Template Changes wizard
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Identify the need for importing and exporting templates
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Work with Solution templates
Module 10: Using Regular Expressions
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Define regular expressions
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Identify regular expressions and their syntax in SiteScope
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Create basic regular expressions with the help of content matching
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Use the regular expression tool to build expressions incrementally
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Use regular expression substitution
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Identify the considerations while using regular expressions
Module 11: Configuring Alerts
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Define alerts
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Use alert classes and associations
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Create alerts
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Use email alerts
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Work with script alerts
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Define trigger frequency of alerts
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Identify the purpose of alert filters
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Work with alert templates
Module 12: Using Reports
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List the business purposes of different reports in an SiteScope deployment
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Identify the different types of reports in SiteScope
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Generate reports based on business requirements
Module 13: Working with the SiteScope Dashboard
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Describe the Sitescope Dashboard
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Define Dashboard filters
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Customize the Dashboard
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List data in the SiteScope Dashboard
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Use the Global Search and Replace feature
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Use Quick Search
Module 14: SiteScope Configuration Tools
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Work with SiteScope tools
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Work with diagnostic tools in SiteScope
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Use the Link Check monitor
Use tools including:
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WebSphere Configuration Helper tool
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Log Grabber tool
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Link Check tool
Module 15: SiteScope Monitor Types I
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Identify monitor categories
Identify the functionality of key monitors within each category:
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Generic monitors
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Server monitors
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Network monitors
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Web transaction monitors
Module 16: SiteScope Monitor Types II
Identify and work with monitors and solution templates including:
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Dynamic Disk Space monitor
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VMware Datastore monitor
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KVM Virtualization monitor
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Generic Hypervisor monitor
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Syslog monitor
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Memcached Statistics monitor
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HAProxy monitor
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License Health monitor
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Oracle Database Solution template
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UNIX Resources monitor
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WebSphere Application Server monitor Work with Custom monitors
Module 17: SiteScope Integrations
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Plan the integration strategy
Configure the following outbound integrations:
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Business Service Management (BSM)
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Operations Manager (OM)
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Network Node Manager (NNMi)
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Perform Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration
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Integrate SiteScope for load testing
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Perform Amazon CloudWatch integration
Module 18: Administration and Maintenance of SiteScope
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Describe critical SiteScope directories and files
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Back up SiteScope
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Set SiteScope preferences
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Work with the SiteScope API
Module 19: Performance Tuning
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Identify the factors that affect the performance of the SiteScope server
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Distinguish between connection and data collection mechanisms
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Apply tuning techniques
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Performing post-installation troubleshooting
Module 20: Running SiteScope Securely
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Harden the SiteScope platform
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Configuring SiteScope to use SSL
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Working with SSH clients
Module 21: SiteScope Server Health and Statistics
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Explore SiteScope health and health groups
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Analyze SiteScope health monitor data
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Work with the SiteScope health user interface
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Use server statistics
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Interpret SiteScope server load statistics
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Use log files