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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.

Beginning today, administrators of Zimbra Collaboration Suite, the leader in open source, next-generation email and collaboration software, now have a fully supported, enterprise-ready solution for managing their complex, mission critical environments with the general availability of Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra. The plugin made available by Hyperic, the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, will allow Zimbra customers to easily monitor and manage the performance of their open source messaging and collaboration suite along with all other layers of their infrastructure.

Hyperic’s software provides unprecedented cross-stack visibility and helps enterprises to pinpoint, correct and prevent problems at every layer ? including hardware, networks, virtualization, middleware and applications. The new Hyperic HQ plugin instantly enables system administrators of Zimbra to take full advantage of Hyperic?s powerful management capabilities, including auto-discovery, monitoring, complex alerting and remediation.

“Email and collaboration are core components of running a business and we know that our customers are focused on providing the highest levels of availability for their messaging solution,? said Scott Dietzen, President and CTO of Zimbra. ?Hyperic HQ’s plug in for Zimbra provides a integrated solution to monitor Zimbra and to enable our customers to achieve a higher level of stability.”

“Hyperic is set on providing the most complete out-of-the-box technology support for the always-on, fast moving online services businesses,” said Doug MacEachern, CTO and co-founder of Hyperic. ?Email and collaboration play a pivotal role for these types of businesses to fluidly work together across geographies, teams, and topics. Now with the extra support from Hyperic HQ, Zimbra users can manage and monitor the overall health of all Zimbra deployments along with the rest of their IT systems infrastructure.?

About the plugin
The new plugin monitors the health and performance of every published performance statistic for Zimbra and its infrastructure components. For a full list of management metrics see the Zimbra wiki. The plugin allows Hyperic HQ to automatically discover the availability of the complete set of Zimbra daemons including: Zimbra Tomcat, Zimbra Logger MySQL, Zimbra MySQL, Zimbra OpenLDAP, Zimbra Cyrus SASL, Zimbra ClamAV, Zimbra Apache Httpd, Zimbra Postfix, Zimbra AMaViS, Zimbra Log Watch, Zimbra Swatch, and Zimbra MTA Config. Hyperic also supports full scale management of MySQL, Apache, Tomcat and OpenLDAP, other technologies used by Zimbra.

In addition to the Zimbra plugin, new OpenLDAP and Vyatta plugins were added to the HyperFORGE. Vyatta issued a press release this morning describing the Vyatta plugin and Hyperic?s partnership with Vyatta. For more information on the Vyatta plugin and relationship see the press release.

Availability
The Hyperic HQ plugin for Zimbra, OpenLDAP and Vyatta are available today and are supported for all current Hyperic 3.0 releases. The plugins, along with all other supported and user contributed plugins, are available on Hyperic’s HyperFORGE.

JBoss, MySQL first to integrate Hyperic technology into their offerings

SAN FRANCISCO - October 30, 2006 - Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open-source IT management, today announced a partner program that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to add enterprise-class, multi-platform IT management capabilities to their products. MySQL and JBoss are among the first companies to join the Hyperic Embedded Management program and distribute the Hyperic HQ management platform as part of their open-source offerings.

The Hyperic Embedded Management program makes it easy for software vendors to enhance their offerings with the addition of enterprise-class management functionality. Hyperic’s management software uses a single interface to obtain system data across virtually any platform. This gives customers the ability to integrate HQ into their existing - and future - mixed-stack environments and discover and fix potential problems before they can impact critical business functions.

Hyperic’s cross-platform SIGAR API enables MySQL Enterprise to obtain low-level operating system information across a variety of different platforms ? through a single interface. This serves as one important data point for monitoring and managing the health of MySQL database servers. MySQL Enterprise then acts as a “Virtual DBA”, giving IT departments the ability to understand and solve potential problems before they impact critical business applications.

“Adding the functionality of Hyperic HQ into open source infrastructure products like MySQL and JBoss gives their customers a more complete, open source solution,” said Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic. “They get the additional benefits of Hyperic’s enterprise-class IT management platform, making it easy for users to monitor and manage all IT operations from a single portal.”

Commercial ISVs can begin evaluating the capabilities of Hyperic HQ management platform by downloading the open source HQ at www.hyperic.com/downloads/. The Hyperic program also provides partners with joint sales and marketing opportunities, and more.

In addition to its embedded partners, Hyperic’s partner ecosystem includes XenSource and EnterpriseDB, among others.

Hyperic HQ is the industry’s most comprehensive offering for managing any type of software stack?whether it’s an open source LAMP stack, a closed source stack, or a hybrid. Unlike traditional management solutions, Hyperic HQ monitors virtually all kinds of operating systems, web servers, app servers and database servers, and can be extended to monitor most types of applications?both at a technical and business level.

About Hyperic Inc.
Hyperic (www.hyperic.com), The Open Source IT Management Platform, provides systems administrators with IT management software they don’t have to manage. Hyperic is the only open source IT management solution that provides “mix and match” stack management by discovering, monitoring, analyzing and controlling all open source and commercial enterprise IT assets from a unified Web interface. With the industry’s fastest time-to-deployment, and extensible management, Hyperic’s HQ Management Platform has been adopted by enterprises of all sizes, including Hi5 Networks, Ogilvy & Mather, eHarmony.com, and more. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Hyperic is a private company funded by Benchmark Capital and Accel Partners.

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