Many SiteScope customers have been asking about the value of adding Operations Manager to their existing SiteScope implementation. Many Operations Manager customers have been asking about how the new SAM Admin helps them manage their SiteScope. The bottom line is that combining agent-based and agentless monitoring gives customers the ability to expand their monitoring coverage in a cost effective way.

I have listed a few excerpts from a new solution brief called “HP Operations Manager for HP SiteScope Customers”

Adding Operations Manager along with its agents extends SiteScope’s depth and breadth of coverage.

• • Present an Operations Bridge or manager of managers that consolidates events from disparate consoles including multiple SiteScope servers, giving greater visibility into system health across the enterprise.
  • Operate autonomously on managed nodes, ensuring continuous operation, even if the network connection between the management server and managed node fails.
  • Allow monitoring of systems where administrators will not allow security credentials to be placed on the network but will allow an agent to be installed on the server.
  • Collect data at very granular time intervals, allowing you to fine-tune the performance of mission-critical systems.
  • Enrich events by providing context in the form of a service dependency map.

Operations Manager integrates out-of-the-box with SiteScope. It centralizes management of all SiteScope and other event consoles.

• • Operations Manager automatically adds SiteScope targets to the Operations Manager Service Map.
  • SiteScope alerts go directly to Operations Manager with full details.
  • Operations Manager launches SiteScope tools directly from the Operations Manager console.
  • Operations Manager manages multiple SiteScope servers and can transfer configuration information from one SiteScope instance to another and synchronize settings between multiple SiteScope servers.

For HP Operations Center, Peter Spielvogel.

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