RHQ 4.6 released

The RHQ team is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 4.6 of the RHQ Systems management and monitoring software.

RHQ is an open source management platform for everything from the OS level load and network metrics through common databases to application servers and projects. The system includes support for monitoring and/or managing Apache httpd, Apache Tomcat, JBoss Application Server, PostgreSQL, and other popular open source projects. RHQ runs on PostgreSQL 8.2.4+ and Oracle as backend databases and is written in Java.

RHQ features a powerful agent plugin model that allows for the quick development of monitoring and management support for new projects and software. It supports inventory auto-discovery, rich monitoring and alerting, operational control, configuration management, content deployment, log tracking, and full history and auditing. It supports fine-grained security and rich group management.

The major focus of this release was the upgrade of the underlying application server to JBoss AS 7.1.1. In addition, the REST-api has been
extended. Korean has been added to the list of supported languages, which now includes English, German, Czech, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese.

Please see the release notes at https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/RHQ/Release+Notes+4.6.0 for full details and a link to the downloads.

RHQ is as every open source project welcoming contributions. Check out the RHQ wiki for details https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/RHQ/Home

Heiko on behalf of the team

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Heiko Rupp hwr(at)pilhuhn(dot)de
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