December Newsletter – New Partners & HQ for Nagios Users
Download Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta 3
Thousands of Hyperic community members have kicked the tires on Hyperic HQ 3.2. With Beta 3 released recently, take a test drive and experience firsthand what’s new in 3.2:
- Read more about HQ 3.2 betas
- See Charles Lee’s HyperCAST on What’s New in 3.2
- Download the beta now!
Not interested in Beta software? Get the latest stable version with Hyperic 3.1.4.
New OEM Partners: Welcome Iona and SpringSource
And then there were 5. With the addition of Iona and SpringSource, 5 companies have decided to embed Hyperic software into their enterprise offerings. 5 companies that sell Open Source software to enterprises. 5 companies with active communities. 5 companies that have found a way to bridge the gap between downloads and dollars.
- Read the Iona press release
- Read the SpringSource press release
Virtual Strategy Magazine Podcast
We were pleased to learn that Brian Ducharme from Virtual Strategy Magazine has posted a podcast featuring Jonathan Bryce of Mosso and Javier Soltero of Hyperic. Click here for the podcast.
Doug MacEachern on Hyperic HQ Plugins
Doug MacEachern, Hyperic co-founder and CTO, took some time to demystify one of Hyperic HQ’s strongest assets: its extensibility via plugins. Doug covered the basics of HQ’s plugin architecture, the different plugin types, and how one would go about writing one.
Upcoming HyperCAST: HQ for Nagios Users
On January 8, John Mark Walker will lead a HyperCAST on the subject of Nagios integration and using Hyperic HQ 3.2’s newfangled Nagios plugin. If you’re familiar with Nagios and are interested in both importing your Nagios configuration into HQ as well as getting some Nagios-like functionality out of HQ, you should sign up for this must-see HyperCAST.
Upcoming HyperCAST: VMware Management
If you’re like many others in data center operations, you likely have VMware running somewhere. With the VMware management HyperCAST, scheduled for January 22, Alex Ma will demonstrate how to monitor and manage your VMware deployments. And as a special bonus, Jonathan Bryce, Co-founder of Mosso, will demonstrate how he uses Hyperic HQ to manage Mosso’s VMware infrastructure.
HyperFORGE Plugin of the Month
Hyperic community member ‘leander’ has created an HQ plugin to monitor the hardware status of Dell systems, using Dell’s OpenManage and SNMP. The plugin is located on the HyperFORGE.
The plugin is functional, and it seems that leander would like to add more features. If you’d like to help, please visit the plugin page and lend a hand. For his efforts, we’re awarding leander a $250 for this month’s Plugin of the Month! Congrats, Leander!
The Hyperic Blog
It’s been an interesting month for blogging, with the Hyperic bloggers chiming in on the topics of the day. Javier points out that, in spite of its popularity, Open Source remains a poorly understood phenomenon, with some still confusing it for public domain.
Later, Javier recognized Jesse Robbins of the O’Reilly RADAR, who listed Hyperic HQ as a tool that made his new job easier. Javier noted that making life easier for IT operations was our job.
And finally, John Mark embraces and extends Matthew Aslett’s (analyst with The 451 Group) idea of Total Innovation Opportunity (TIO) with a post on how to capitalize on it vis-a-vis community development.
Hyperic in the News
Lots of news about Hyperic to report, from a review in NetworkWorld to coverage of our OEM deals:
- Open source Hyperic offers an alternative for VM management – NetworkWorld, December 17, 2007
- Taming the Virtual Beast, Part II – NetworkWorld, December 17, 2007
- Hyperic Expands Open-Source SOA And Java Management – NetworkComputing, December 18, 2007
- Spring Integration boosts service-based apps – InfoWorld, December 13, 2007
- Federated ESBs come to fore as natural outcome of guerrilla SOA practices – ZDNet Blogs, December 10, 2007
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