Hyperic announces HQ 1.5, a management framework with support for PostgreSQL 7.x and 8.x

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 support 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 for over 25 open source and commercial software
products and on every major OS.

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!