Now Playing - HQ 3.1 Beta 1

July 11th, 2007 John Mark

Hyperic is happy to announce the first beta of HQ 3.1. Be sure to download the beta and give it a spin. This release will include the following new features:

• Expanded Alert Features
  Introduces the Alert Center for central management of alerts in a flat hierarchy, Alert Resolutions descriptions track how to resolve problems, expanded alert email detail to include indicator metric data and previous alert resolution.
• Performance and Scalability Enhancements
  Dramatically improves out-of-the-box scalability for large deployments.
• MySQL
  MySQL 5.0 and above is now a supported database backend for the Hyperic HQ environment, and the HQ plugin for MySQL has been further enhanced for greater management detail.
• Embedded Contextual Help
  Improved context-sensitive help detail, configurable option to display up-to-date help remotely from support.hyperic.com or locally, and local web pages can be customized and expanded for unique deployment environments.
• Localizable UI
  The entire Hyperic HQ UI and help pages are now customizable for users to alter or translate UI elements. Sharing of translations is encouraged through a new area on HyperFORGE.
• Extended Product Coverage
  The new Hyperic HQ distribution bundles support over 13 new products, including notables such as Zimbra, Informix, and OpenLDAP, now deployed in the HQ Agent by default.

3.1 Beta Resources on Hyperic.com

• New feature descriptions
• Beta product page
• Download page

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