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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 most scalable and manageable enterprise monitoring software available in open source.

New Diagnostics and Visibility
Today?s IT administrators deal with an increasing burden of disparate technologies, and changing resources to monitor and maintain. Typically, they rely on a variety of utilities and diagnostic tools to ensure and restore availability to their systems. Hyperic HQ 3.2 introduces three new capabilities that provide both new and existing users of HQ a single console to manage all layers of their infrastructure:

• Live Exec Data ? Instantly see your most CPU intensive processes (top), disk usage, network connections and more across your entire cluster of Windows and *nix platforms in a single view!
• Currently Down Resources ? This quick look screen gives users the ability to view all down resources and their length of down time at a glance in one page. The view can be more narrowly filtered by generic or specific resource type, and can also be sorted by resource name, type, exact down time, and length of down time.
• Nagios Import Utility ? This new utility automatically imports Nagios hosts, commands and service object. This utility provides administrators currently using Nagios easy access to all the custom checks and configuration currently supported in their Nagios environment, while extending all the additional benefits and features of the Hyperic HQ platform to these users with the click of a button.
• Improved Nagios Integration ? The Hyperic HQ 3.2 Nagios plugin has been extended significantly to provide Nagios administrators the ability to run Nagios plugins natively and view Nagios Services, Hosts, and Statuses in a way that is identical to the Nagios Service Details interface.

More Scalable, Manageable Infrastructure
Hyperic HQ users run some of the largest website and web applications in the world. Providing monitoring and management capablities at this scale can be a daunting task, but it doesn?t have to be. Hyperic HQ 3.2 introduces powerful infrastructure enhancements to ensure maximum visibility with minimum overhead:

• Scalability Improvements ? Hyperic aims to provide the most scalable systems monitoring and management software available in open source with Hyperic HQ 3.2. Significant investment in powering more concurrent checks, collecting more log data, and increasing the database performance for both queries and data insertion will demonstrate immediate results for large scale enterprises. Significant benchmark testing will be conducted in parallel with this Beta, and results will be shared.
• MySQL Database Support - Full support for MySQL database to be used as backend data store for Hyperic HQ 3.2, leveraging the proliferation of MySQL in the enterprise and existing DBA expertise. The performance of MySQL is expected to be on par with the other backend databases we currently support: Oracle, and Postgres.
• HQ Health Check ? The Hyperic HQ Server now supports self-diagnostics on the performance of the server itself, providing users and Hyperic Support a better way to be assured their monitoring system is always available.
• Global Alert Disable - For scheduled maintenance or planned outages, the HQ administrator can globally disable all alerts on-demand in HQ 3.2, thereby preventing unwanted alerts from being generated during these times.

This release is intended for early preview and community participation in perfecting this release. It is not recommended to replace your current HQ production environments. The GA release of Hyperic HQ 3.2 will be available later this winter and will support a direct upgrade from your current Hyperic HQ 3.x environment. For more information on the Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta see the release notes. Download today and be sure to participate in our user forums and bug forums.

Expanded Community Rewards Program
To encourage the community even further to participate in improving the quality of both the new Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta, as well as Hyperic HQ installations in production today, we have extended the Hyperic Community Rewards Program. The program now provides members new points awarded for identifying new bugs, fixing reported bugs and contributing new plugins or HOWTOs for the HQ platform. Various rewards are available to power users who contribute at significant levels.

Hyperic is happy to announce the first beta of HQ 3.1. Be sure to download the beta and give it a spin. This release will include the following new features:

• Expanded Alert Features
  Introduces the Alert Center for central management of alerts in a flat hierarchy, Alert Resolutions descriptions track how to resolve problems, expanded alert email detail to include indicator metric data and previous alert resolution.
• Performance and Scalability Enhancements
  Dramatically improves out-of-the-box scalability for large deployments.
• MySQL
  MySQL 5.0 and above is now a supported database backend for the Hyperic HQ environment, and the HQ plugin for MySQL has been further enhanced for greater management detail.
• Embedded Contextual Help
  Improved context-sensitive help detail, configurable option to display up-to-date help remotely from support.hyperic.com or locally, and local web pages can be customized and expanded for unique deployment environments.
• Localizable UI
  The entire Hyperic HQ UI and help pages are now customizable for users to alter or translate UI elements. Sharing of translations is encouraged through a new area on HyperFORGE.
• Extended Product Coverage
  The new Hyperic HQ distribution bundles support over 13 new products, including notables such as Zimbra, Informix, and OpenLDAP, now deployed in the HQ Agent by default.

3.1 Beta Resources on Hyperic.com

• New feature descriptions
• Beta product page
• Download page