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SpringSource Hyperic HQ
Overview
SpringSource Hyperic HQ is the award-winning web application
performance monitoring software for the datacenter and the cloud.
Its unique ability to automatically discover, integrate and manage
software services, regardless of type or location, enables users to
create a unified view of the performance and health of their ap-
plications. SpringSource Hyperic HQ is the standard for web op-
erations teams of all sizes, with fast deployment, a fully extensible
framework and user interface, and support for both virtualized and
non-virtualized infrastructure at scale.
Hyperic HQ Open Source
• Auto-discover software resources across physical, virtual and cloud-based infrastructure
• Monitor performance, configuration and security changes
• Alert key personnel to performance problems, errors or inventory changes
• Diagnose errors, correct problems, and report performance centrally
• Customize resource views by logical groups or applications to best manage their unique
environment
Hyperic HQ Enterprise Edition
Hyperic HQ Enterprise provides the automation and built-in intelligence necessary for web
operations teams to manage applications at scale, including virtualized and cloud-based
resources. Designed to monitor scalable, secure web applications, HQ Enterprise saves time
and ensures comprehensive management of business-critical services. The enterprise-only
features include:
• Complete deployment automation, including the ability to copy and reuse monitoring
configurations and global alert templates
• Enterprise alerting includes multi-conditional and recovery alerts, role-based
notifications, group-based alerting, and escalations
• Automatic control actions enable administrators to schedule maintenance activities and
create conditional responses to alerts
• Extended security options including support for role-based access control and alerts,
external authentication for LDAP and Kerberos directories and uni-directional agent
communication to track resources beyond the firewall
• Extended analysis tools include advanced dashboard charting, capacity planning, and
built-in reporting
• Enterprise-level scalability and high availability deployment options.
BETTER OPERATIONAL CONTROL
SpringSource Hyperic HQ Open Source
provides community users complete web
application performance monitoring and
management to help pinpoint, correct,
and prevent problems at every major layer,
including hardware, networks,
virtualization, and applications. Designed
for developers and smaller scale
production deployments, features of
SpringSource Hyperic HQ 4.0 include:
• Install, set up and start
managing web infrastructure
with one click.
• Auto-discovery capability
delivers continuously accurate
inventory of all infrastructure
hardware, software, and
services.
• Organize the Operations
Dashboard, metrics, charts and
alerts to customize
infrastructure views.
• Understand the real
performance of virtualized
environments, from the both
the host and the guest
perspectives.
• Compare performance data
with configuration changes,
log data and security events
for fast problem ID and
resolution.
• Define intelligent alerts,
acknowledgements and
response actions to help
anticipate problems before
they cause outages.
• Run cross-platform diagnostics
and execute control operations
across the entire infrastructure
centrally.
• Accurately model and display
the relationships between
hardware, software, and
services.
• Analyze real-time and
historical metrics across
hardware, network and
application layers.
