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: [...]

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. Systems Management Taxonomy – Systems Management is a BIG term. It has many disciplines within it. [...]

Tarus Balug of OpenNMS is such a shy man, often playing it close to the vest, not one to venture an opinion out in the wild… right? Er, no. At least not the Tarus Balog I know and love. His blog is usually highly entertaining (I recommend the one on the W is for Weird). [...]

As you probably know, Hyperic HQ is an agent-based system management system. That means there is an HQ Server component and a separate HQ Agent component. When you have the HQ Server on one platform and the HQ Agent on a different platform, you run into an interesting trust issue. The HQ Agent operates independent [...]

I love working in technology. One of the main reasons is because there are guaranteed to be at least three new things I see every day. This ranges from technology innovation (today, I am impressed by a boat powered by waves, although I definitely note it has not made a sail obsolete) to new business [...]

It’s been an eventful day at SCALE, with lots of interesting attendees, Linux toddlers, and our first SCALE casualty (RIP Firefly helicopter!) Our beautiful booth: It flies! When Linux toddlers run wild: Oh sure, he looks cute now… If only you had seen him wrecking helicopter carnage:

I love my job. For those that don’t know me too well, I have the privilege of looking after all outbound activity here at Hyperic. In that capacity I get to interact with the community, customers, press and analysts. Sometimes all at once. Thing is, I don’t get to see them that often – its [...]

This morning I came across an AP article on Yahoo news calling out Amazon’s ‘cloud computing’ initiatives. The all-too-clever title “Amazon’s Hot New Item: its data center” caught my attention and I wanted to see the folks at AP take a crack at the topic. The article seemed innocent enough until I ran into this [...]

News hit today that Covalent Technologies (or what I commonly refer to as Covalent 2.0) was acquired by SpringSource. This is an incredibly interesting piece of news since as most of you might have heard, Hyperic’s founding team met while working at the original Covalent (1.0). We also developed the first version of the HQ [...]

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 [...]

Today I learned that Hyperic won Enterprise Management Associate’s Award for Open Source Systems Management. What’s more, we discovered that we won the top slot, what EMA calls the ‘First Team All-Star’ position. The idea here is that all teams have a starting lineup, or ‘First Team’ and then a series of reserves, which is [...]

Luke Kanies, the brains behind Puppet, was kind enough to come by the Hyperic office a few days ago. A conversation ensued and was recorded. If you know Luke, then you know he’s full of ideas and well-stated opinions on the state of system administration and sysadmins. Our conversation ran the gamut from Puppet’s place [...]

What an incredible start to an otherwise unremarkable, mid-January day! First, the huge news about MySQL being acquired by Sun Microsystems… then the news about BEA being acquired by Oracle. The first deal is significant given the ‘imminent’ IPO that was expected by MySQL later this year. The second is significant if only because of [...]

Hyperic is pleased to accept the honor of having Hyperic HQ named as SourceForge.net’s project of the month for January 2008. The popular Hyperic HQ project has been hosted on Sourceforge.net since its launch just 18 months ago. With nearly 2 million registered users and more than 166,500 software projects, SourceForge.net is world’s largest Open [...]

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. You can view the replay by clicking on the following link. Enjoy!

The 4th beta for Hyperic HQ 3.2 has been released! We’re about to wrap up the HQ 3.2 beta process, so if you haven’t kicked the tires yet, you have a limited time to do so. Speak now or forever hold your peace. See the release notes: http://support.hyperic.com/confluence/display/DOC/HQ+3.2+Release+Notes Download here: http://www.hyperic.com/downloads/dl-hq-beta.html After downloading, share your [...]

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 [...]

Brian Ducharme from Virtual Strategy Magazine has posted a podcast featuring Jonathan Bryce of Mosso and Javier Soltero of Hyperic. You can find a summary of the podcast as well as an applet for playing it at virtual-strategy.com. Or you can use our player below to listen (or download). The podcast is licensed under a [...]

The term innovation opportunity has been discussed by Matthew Aslett, who described it as “the potential to lower development costs for business users, while at the same time raising their potential to focus on innovative development.” This falls in line with the view that an open model is more efficient, but how exactly is it [...]

It’s been a crazy week for us over here at Hyperic. We had partner announcements, board meetings, and big customer wins. In the middle of the usual ‘controlled chaos’ state that we operate in, I came across this recent post from Jesse Robbins over at O’Reilly Radar. For those of you who dont know Jesse [...]

It is incredible to me that despite all the publicity and sexiness of open source, the majority of people still dont understand how open source licenses work. Despite the good work of most folks in attempting to explain the key differences between Apache/BSD-style licenses, GPL licenses, and others, I get the impression that a lot [...]

The first release of Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta is now available for download. This exciting new release is designed to provide a more powerful “single pane of glass” to monitor, diagnose and manage today’s complex, custom, web-based IT environments. In addition, significant infrastructure enhancements to the core Hyperic HQ platform were added to deliver the [...]

I’ve written in the past about how enterprise management vendors can act as “Gatekeepers of the Datacenter” by virtue of what technologies they do or don’t support as part of their management solutions. This rather lame dynamic is a big part of the reason why a lot of otherwise great technologies dont make it all [...]

Once again, it was an interesting time at USENIX LISA. It never fails – whenever I come to this conference, I’m always humbled by the brainpower of those hobnobbing around. The intellectual density is quite high. This year’s version of LISA was held at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas. I arrived in Dallas on Tuesday [...]

The built-in HQ database is PostgreSQL. Recently, users have been discovering PostgreSQL has a certain limitation: it will not execute more than 2 billion transactions between vacuums. In rare cases, an HQ built-in database can get into this state. If this happens, the database will stop accepting connections and HQ, which needs a data store, [...]