Re: New News Entry - Mailing list pgsql-www

Hi,

News approved. Will appear in next site build.

Regards, Devrim


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From: www@www.postgresql.com (World Wide Web Owner)
To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Sent: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:39:48 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [pgsql-www] New News Entry

> A new entry has been added to the news database.
>
> Submitted by: javier_soltero@yahoo.com
> Headline: Hyperic announces HQ 1.5, a management framework with
> support for PostgreSQL 7.x and 8.x Summary:
>
> San Francisco-based Hyperic is pleased to announce release 1.5 of
> its HQ management platform. This release introduces management
> support for PostgreSQL 7.x and 8.x allowing you to monitor both
> database and table level activity alongside the rest of your infrastructure.
>
> Story:
>
> Hyperic is excited to announce HQ 1.5, the newest version of its
> management platform. With this release, we continue our vision of
> providing a more affordable, easy to deploy alternative to
> management tools like HP OpenView and BMC Patrol. HQ 1.5 aims to
> become the next generation management framework for IT resources by
> reducing deployment time to under 60 minutes while providing a full
> framework feature set and support for every major open source and
> commercial software product and operating system including Apache,
> Tomcat, PostgreSQL, Linux, WebLogic, WebSphere, and others.
>
> PostgreSQL management supports in HQ 1.5 allows you to discover,
> monitor, and control both your database and its tables. This allows
> you to manage your PostgreSQL installations from the same framework
> you can use to manage the rest of your environment. Additionally, HQ
> uses PostgreSQL as its backend database engine on all platforms
> (including Win32) and serves as an excellent example of the power
> and portability of PostgreSQL.
>
> 1.5 also introduces more than 20 new features and performance
> ehancements such as single-click monitoring, recovery alerts, and
> self managed inventory.
>
> Feature highlights:
>
> * Automatic inventory management - HQ automatically tracks what
> applications and services are deployed on your hosts giving you a
> complete picture of your IT infrastructure.
>
> * Single-click monitoring - HQ automatically begins collecting the
> most relevant metrics for all your managed resources based on
> Hyperic\'s recommended best practices.
>
> * Real performance monitoring - HQ automatically enables collection
> of response time metrics for all requests flowing into the web
> server and application servers in your environment giving you a real
> picture of which pages are being hit most frequently, and how long
> the requests take to be processed.
>
> * Baseline Alerting - HQ allows you to define baselines for any
> number of metrics it collects, and use the baseline to define alerts
> which notify you of any deviation from the expected behavior of the metrics.
>
> * Recovery Alerting - HQ\'s alerting engine can detect when a
> problem which that triggered an alert and then send you notification
> that the problem has been corrected.
>
> * Custom Monitors - HQ\'s monitoring engine has been extended to
> provide monitoring of any process, network accessible service, or
> Windows service in your environment, allowing you to manage custom
> products without any coding and monitor resources such as web
> services, and any other network aware application or device.
>
> * Extensible - HQ\'s alerting and monitoring components are
> extensible by users wishing to provide customized actions for alerts,
>  as well as extend HQ\'s product coverage for proprietary
> technologies via the HQ Plugin Development Kit.
>
> Licensing:
>
> * Hyperic HQ 1.5 personal edition is a free full-featured version of
> HQ that you can download and use indefinitely to manage 3 machines.
> For commercial environments Hyperic provides simple pricing starting
> at $65.00 per month, per managed computer.
>
> HQ 1.5 is available for Linux, Windows, Solaris, HP/UX, and AIX
>
> Visit http://www.hyperic.net to download Hyperic HQ 1.5 and
> experience the new way to manage IT!
>
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