New HyperCAST Archive: SNMP Plugins

In this HyperCAST, Marty Messer walks through the creation and deployment of SNMP-based plugins in Hyperic HQ. New users to Hyperic HQ often don’t know that an HQ agent can be used to connect to other SNMP-enabled devices on a network. This session shows you how to leverage that.

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Add comment April 8th, 2008 John Mark

HQU HyperCAST with Jon Travis

Jon Travis, Principal Engineer at Hyperic and the guru behind HQU, did a HyperCAST yesterday on our newly released HQU UI plugin framework. To read more about HQU, see hquplugins.org - basically, HQU lets you build custom UI views, integrate with web services, interact directly with the HQ engine, and script out automated tasks.

The highlight of the HyperCAST is a Jira integration piece that took about 5 minutes.

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Add comment March 27th, 2008 John Mark

The Ghost of HyperCASTs Past - Archives for You

As I listened to today’s OpenNMS and Hyperic HyperCAST, it occurred to me that I haven’t posted a couple of previous archives. Which is a shame, because there have been some great ones.

HyperCAST 8 was all about upgrading to Hyperic HQ 3.2.x. It includes some live demos of upgrades in action, and covers upgrades for bundles, separate databases, and separate JRE’s.

HyperCAST 9 was Hyperic en espanol - and it was conducted completely in Spanish.

Enjoy! And remember, you can always register for upcoming HyperCASTs and view archives at hyperic.com/demo/hypercasts.html

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Add comment March 11th, 2008 John Mark

Hyperic & OpenNMS HyperCAST Now Available

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Let the good times begin! The official HyperCAST on HOWTO integrate Hyperic and OpenNMS is now ready for your viewing pleasure!

David Hustace, OpenNMS President and Charles Lee, co-founder and VP of Engineering at Hyperic, teamed up together to discuss and show how Hyperic & OpenNMS work together. The HyperCAST was popular indeed, with for the first time ever in the history of HyperCASTs (ok, this is only #10) we had 2 analysts attend and several customers call in before the session to secure their place in line for implementing the anticipated integration. All the attention definitely got us excited, and I think it shows through in the session itself.

4 comments March 11th, 2008 Stacey Schneider

Today’s HyperCAST: OpenNMS Integration

If you still have not registered for today’s HyperCAST on OpenNMS and Hyperic HQ integration, you still have a couple of hours! You’ll get to hear David Hustace of OpenNMS and Charles Lee from Hyperic demo the new integration functionality they’re putting into both products. This should be a great one.Register for the HyperCAST.

Note: all of our HyperCASTs make use of the ReadyTalk collaboration platform.

Add comment March 11th, 2008 John Mark

Hyperic & OpenNMS - Better Together

I am very excited to have finally formalized our relationship with the Order of the Green Polo, the folks that run OpenNMS. This new partnership and product roadmap highlights the right answer to many questions mulling around our industry.

1. Systems Management Taxonomy - Systems Management is a BIG term. It has many disciplines within it. We have application management, systems management, provisioning, network management, configuration management, and the list goes on. The reality is most people think it encompasses application, system and network management. Hyperic does a great job up in the application and systems level - especially for custom-built, heterogeneous stack web-based infrastructure. We do some level of Network management, but it is small potatoes compared to OpenNMS. A public announcement and partnership (not to mention blog posts) will make more people understand quickly that we’re very different - and they need us both!

2 comments March 6th, 2008 Stacey Schneider

Managing VMware: Tips & Tricks

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I had the great pleasure of co-hosting one of Hyperic’s regular webinar series with Jonathan Bryce and Jason Bartels from Mosso. I have spent quite a bit of time with these guys over the past couple months, as Jonathan worked with me to build a case study. Through that experience, I became totally intrigued with how these guys set themselves up. Mosso is a division of Rackspace that helps folks build websites fast, and make sure everything is always running. They guarantee 100% uptime, which is cool. They get scale. When I first met Jonathan in late September, his company was hosting 25,000 websites. Now he’s hosting 35,000. They get how to run about 200 different technologies (in my estimation, and yes, it may be exagerrating - but only a bit) . They get virtualization - they use it to make sure that they can quickly deploy more horsepower to a site when it gets hit by Slashdot, Digg and Reddit all in one hour.

Add comment January 23rd, 2008 Stacey Schneider

New HyperCAST Archive: Nagios Integration

With the new Nagios plugin to be released with Hyperic HQ 3.2, we did a HyperCAST yesterday on its feature set and how to import an existing Nagios configuration.

Enjoy!

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Add comment January 9th, 2008 John Mark