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In This Issue

  • Download HQ 3.2.3!
  • Meet and Greet
  • JavaOne / CommunityOne
  • Velocity Conference
  • Terracotta: OEM Partner
  • Upcoming HyperCASTs
  • Event Center Plugin
  • Oracle App Server
  • Plugin of the Month
  • HQ 4.0 Iterations
  • Best of the Blog
  • News Roundup

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Upcoming Events

JavaOne, May 6 - 9
San Francis

Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 Now Available!

Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 and Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 Enterprise are now available! HQ 3.2.3 is a maintenance release with minor bugfixes. We recommend that all 3.2.x users upgrade to this latest version. Get it now:

Meet and Greet, Part 1

While we may not have actually been to every conference on the planet in April, it sure seems like it. Here's a quick rundown of recent events with links to their respective wrap-ups:

JavaOne and CommunityOne

(or Meet and Greet, Part 2)

But wait, there's more! There are still more events to attend. Right around the corner is JavaOne, held in SF from May 6 through 9. Hyperic will have a booth, as well as a conference session by Lead UI Architect Richard Pack on the topic of "Choosing Your Java-based Web Framework: a Comparison." Also, Senior Software Engineer Scott Feldstein will speak at CommunityOne (May 5) on the subject of "Scaling MySQL."

Velocity Conference

(or Meet and Greet, Part 3)

We are especially excited about O'Reilly's Velocity Conference. This is a conference we helped design and build just for our users, the web operations teams powering some of the coolest companies on the planet. As such, Hyperic is a Diamond Sponsor and our own Javier Soltero will deliver a keynote "Clouds Are no Substitute for Competence." With cloud computing lurking as the next big disrupter in the web operations world, you'll want to hear what Javier has to say. And, for being a friend-of-Hyperic, you get a hefty discount!

To claim your 20% registration discount, use this code: vel08hyp

New OEM Partner: Terracotta

Terracotta, the leader in infrastructure software for enterprise Java scalability, and Hyperic, Inc. have announced a technology license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Hyperic’s SIGAR (System Information Gatherer and Reporter) has been incorporated into Terracotta 2.6, the latest version of their open source Java clustering solution. Hyperic’s cross-platform SIGAR enables Terracotta to obtain key operating system and hardware information, important data points for monitoring and managing the health of application clusters.

Upcoming and Archived HyperCASTs

Hyperic HQ 3.2 introduced some great new features allowing admins to get a real-time view of their HQ server's health. If you've been interested in finding out how to tune your Hyperic deployment, register for this HyperCAST:
 If you've never seen any of our HyperCASTs, we have built a library of archives. Some of the recent ones include:

New HQU Plugin: Event Center

One of the great advantages of HQU is the ability to build new interfaces to data. One example of this is the Event Center HQU plugin, which allows admins to view all of their log and event tracking data in one place.

New Support for Oracle Application Server

Gerardo Viedma, our illustrious software engineer, has released a brand new plugin that allows Hyperic HQ to manage instances of both Oracle Application Server and Oracle Containers for Java (OC4J). The plugin is now available at the HyperFORGE.

Plugin of the Month - Scheduled Downtime

Jeff Schwartz has written a nice plugin that allows HQ admins to schedule downtime for alerts on a given platform. This is a pretty useful feature for admins who have to take down some essential services for maintenance and don't want their monitoring tool(s) to send them alerts to that effect - they already know the service is down. This blog post lets you download the plugin and lists steps for how to deploy it. (disclaimer: we cannot vouch or provide support for this plugin)

Congrats to Jeff! As a reward, we will provide him with a $250 gift certificate.

Hyperic HQ Iterations for 4.0

Our engineers have been taking a community approach in plotting the develpment of Hyperic HQ 4.0. One of the most visible changes wrought by this change in approach is the publishing of iterations, very early pre-alpha versions of code, on SourceForge.net. If you're very curious and love to tinker and hack on developmental code, take a look:

Best of the Blog

Hyperic in the News

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