Hyperic HQ: web monitoring tool

Hyperic HQ manages a broad range of products including web servers, application servers, databases, operating systems, messaging servers, directory servers, virtualization and much more. For all these products, HQ's management integration follows these guidelines:

Management Via Vendor-Provided Interfaces

Hyperic HQ plugins are designed to interact with the APIs and monitoring mechanisms used by the vendor's own management and administration tools. This guarantees that the impact of managing through HQ is as unobtrusive as that of the management tools your vendor provides.

Accurate Inventory Models

Hyperic HQ's auto-discovery technology populates the inventory of hardware, software, and services based on the same terminology IT operators use to describe their environment. Each plugin defines its own inventory hierarchy that is specific to the technology it manages. For example, J2EE application servers, such as JBoss, Weblogic, and WebSphere, define a vast array of services such as JCA connection pools, Webapps, EJBs, JMS Topics, etc. Auto-discovery also enables management of clustered technology by supporting full inventory of all clustered resources across different machines.

Plugin Defined Default Metrics

Each Hyperic HQ plugin defines a set of default metrics that are enabled as soon as the product is discovered. To facilitate quick deployment of HQ management, every product has its default metric set enabled at a reasonable interval that immediately provides the appropriate level of visibility for that product. These levels are based on best practices we've received from our customers.

Hyperic HQ manages every major web server, application server and database including all leading open source products.