Hyperic Newsletter - March, 2008

April 3rd, 2008 John Mark

Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 Now Available!

Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 and Hyperic HQ 3.2.2 Enterprise are now available! This version features the hot new HQU Plugin framework and the first stages of OpenNMS integration. Also new is an MSI installer for Windows and RPM’s for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora.

Get this release now:

• Download HQ 3.2.2
• Read the Release Notes
• Read about HQU Plugins
  

Introducing HQU Plugins

HQU gives operations the ability to automate tasks and create new UI views for HQ. Written in Groovy, HQU plugins can be easily shared and hot-deployed in live Hyperic HQ environments. HQU applications include:

-> Custom UI views
-> Web Services integration
-> A Groovy script console

• Read the HQU Plugins press release.
• Visit the HQU Forge

Contegix Announces Case Study

Managed hosting provider Contegix (www.contegix.com) has deployed Hyperic HQ Enterprise across its entire infrastructure. In the eight months since deployment, Hyperic HQ has become a strategic advantage for the company, helping its customers go beyond keeping their systems up and running to actually improving application performance.

• Read the press release
• Read the case study

Hyperic Partners with OpenNMS

Hyperic and OpenNMS announced a partnership and product integration plans designed to provide the industry’s most complete open source management solution. Hyperic’s first integration milestone was released today with Hyperic HQ 3.2.2. The companies discussed the integration and outline the roadmap in a HyperCAST on March 11, 2008. To see this archived HyperCAST, visit www.hyperic.com/demo/hypercasts.html

• Read the press release
• View the HyperCAST
• Download Hyperic HQ 3.2.2

Upcoming and Archived HyperCASTs

April is plugin month for upcoming HyperCASTs. First up is a session on custom JMX plugins. Next is a tutorial on creating SNMP plugins. Register for both below:

• Writing SNMP Plugins - Hyperic Support, April 8, 11am PDT / 18:00 UTC
• Writing JMX Plugins - Gerardo Viedma, April 22, 11am PDT / 18:00 UTC

If you’ve never seen any of our HyperCASTs, we have built a nice library of archives. Some of the recent ones include:

• Integration with OpenNMS
  
• Extending Hyperic HQ with HQU Plugins
  

Hyperic in the News

Take a look at what they’re saying about Hyperic:

• Megan Santosus at Tech Target reports on the Hyperic - OpenNMS news.
• Glyn Moody blogs for ComputerWorld UK about all of Hyperic’s recent news
• Jason Snyder of InfoWorld published an extensive interview with Javier Soltero as part of Snyder’s Roundtable: the State of Open Source.
  
• SYS-CON reports that Hyperic HQ was nominated for the Virtualization Journal Readers’ Choice Awards.
  

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