HQ 3.2 Beta Release 1 Readme
Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta Release 1 Now Available
The first release of Hyperic HQ 3.2 Beta is now available, download it here. 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.
 | Preview Release 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. |
New Features and Enhancements in HQ 3.2
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 - This feature allows HQ users to view - in real time - performance data for a single platform or across a number of platforms, in a rich, centralized user interface. The Live Exec Data framework is built OS-independent, which means that commands can be executed on both Windows and *nix systems. Executable commands include:
- Cpuinfo
- Cpuperc
- Df
- Ifconfig
- Netstat
- Top
- Who
- 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 power 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.
- 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.
Installation Instructions
- Download the binaries here
- Installing for the first time? Read the Install Guide
- Need more help? Visit our Support or read the Forums
You Can Help!
- Bugs: Did you find a bug? View our Jira to see if it's been logged, or report the issue in HQ Bug Forum.
- Please include the configuration info for your deployment, including the build number, OS version, RAM, and JRE version (if you are using your own JRE).
- Questions: If you have questions about getting HQ installed or about new features:
- 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.
Issues
Issues Fixed for 3.2 Beta Release 1
Hyperic JIRA
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HHQ-1164 | Manually created platform services do not have metrics enabled | Charles Lee | Charles Lee |
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 Closed
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FIXED | Oct 25, 2007 | Oct 29, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1158 | MySQL custom sequences are not working correctly | Scott Feldstein | Scott Feldstein |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 24, 2007 | Nov 09, 2007 | |
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HHQ-668 | csv export data should be oldest first, newest last | Ryan Morgan | Noah Salzman |
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Closed
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FIXED | Feb 13, 2007 | Oct 10, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1070 | Agent connection hang | Ryan Morgan | Ryan Morgan |
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Closed
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FIXED | Sep 09, 2007 | Oct 23, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1075 | Session time out displays stack trace | Richard Pack | Nipuna Bhayani |
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Closed
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FIXED | Sep 13, 2007 | Nov 09, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1115 | Exception trying to reschedule metrics due to out of date SRN | Tom Keeney | Ryan Morgan |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 11, 2007 | Nov 01, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1129 | Alert getting fired on a condition that does not fulfill time constraint action | Charles Lee | Kashyap Parikh |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 19, 2007 | Oct 26, 2007 | |
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HHQ-3 | Shell commands 'resource configure' and 'metric configure' no longer work. | Ryan Morgan | Ryan Morgan |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 03, 2006 | Oct 26, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1012 | Process services on Solaris can have invalid metric values for "Cpu Usage" | Doug MacEachern | John Sachs |
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Closed
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FIXED | Aug 01, 2007 | Nov 19, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1045 | Creating an application with the same name as another throws stack trace | Charles Lee | Jon Travis |
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Closed
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FIXED | Aug 21, 2007 | Oct 10, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1081 | Availability Summary displays stack trace | Ryan Morgan | Nipuna Bhayani |
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Closed
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FIXED | Sep 14, 2007 | Nov 06, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1103 | Agent may crash on solaris sparc systems with dual-core 8+ cpu systems | Doug MacEachern | Doug MacEachern |
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Closed
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FIXED | Sep 28, 2007 | Nov 21, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1123 | Down Screen | Heather Tumey | Ryan Morgan |
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Closed
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FIXED | Sep 24, 2007 | Oct 29, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1121 | Add to inventory displays warning in server log | Ryan Morgan | Nipuna Bhayani |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 16, 2007 | Nov 02, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1222 | Groovy can lose it's dynamic methods | Jon Travis | Ryan Morgan |
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Closed
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FIXED | Nov 07, 2007 | Nov 19, 2007 | |
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HHQ-250 | Keyword filter on metrics is case-sensitive | Charles Lee | Charles Lee |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 17, 2006 | Oct 11, 2007 | |
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HHQ-396 | Add WebLogic 10 support | Doug MacEachern | Doug MacEachern |
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Closed
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FIXED | Dec 14, 2006 | Oct 11, 2007 | |
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HHQ-436 | Service types dropdown list on New Service page not sorted | Charles Lee | Ryan Morgan |
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Closed
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FIXED | Dec 28, 2006 | Oct 11, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1090 | Illegal XML characters have to be replaced by entity references | Heather Tumey | Heather Tumey |
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Closed
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FIXED | Sep 24, 2007 | Oct 11, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1107 | Recent Alerts Port lets and Mast head displays alerts that are old | Charles Lee | Nipuna Bhayani |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 04, 2007 | Oct 09, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1203 | Wrong page is displayed when Clicking on Last Alert in Definition tab for Alert center | Charles Lee | Nipuna Bhayani |
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Closed
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FIXED | Nov 02, 2007 | Nov 13, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1235 | Loading spinner and the hb icon are popping out of the navigation bar in IE6 | Heather Tumey | Heather Tumey |
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Closed
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FIXED | Nov 09, 2007 | Nov 13, 2007 | |
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HHQ-251 | No Back to Resource link when charting multiple metrics | Charles Lee | Charles Lee |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 17, 2006 | Oct 15, 2007 | |
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HHQ-356 | User name in the masthead should be a link to the user's detail page | Charles Lee | Noah Salzman |
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Closed
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FIXED | Dec 04, 2006 | Oct 11, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1120 | Alert Center:Enabled Column doesn't display sort arrow in Definition tab | Heather Tumey | Nipuna Bhayani |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 15, 2007 | Nov 12, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1163 | Remove use of BigDecimal(double) usage | Ryan Morgan | Ryan Morgan |
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 Resolved
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FIXED | Oct 25, 2007 | Oct 25, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1172 | Allow agent storage configuration in Kb | Ryan Morgan | Ryan Morgan |
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Resolved
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FIXED | Oct 29, 2007 | Oct 29, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1174 | In LiveExec UI Improvements | Heather Tumey | Nipuna Bhayani |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 29, 2007 | Nov 05, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1153 | Metric enabler can fail to enable or reschedule all metrics | Jon Travis | Ryan Morgan |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 23, 2007 | Oct 24, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1160 | Support MBeanServer.getAttribute as a control action | Doug MacEachern | Doug MacEachern |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 24, 2007 | Oct 31, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1152 | HQ Server log messages should include the thread name | Tom Keeney | Tom Keeney |
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Closed
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FIXED | Oct 23, 2007 | Oct 24, 2007 | |
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HHQ-1231 | Possible installer/agent crash on Linux | Doug MacEachern | Doug MacEachern |
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Closed
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FIXED | Nov 09, 2007 | Nov 19, 2007 | |
Known Issues in 3.2
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Hyperic JIRA
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HHQ-2166 | Misleading information in alert emails | Charles Lee | Ryan Morgan |
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 Open
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UNRESOLVED | Jun 04, 2008 | Aug 21, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2238 | enhance / investigate slow query in HQ | Scott Feldstein | Scott Feldstein |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Jul 16, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2245 | EAM_ESCALATION_STATE table needs its unique indexes re-worked | Scott Feldstein | Scott Feldstein |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Jul 22, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2088 | Additional metrics for SQL Server 2005 | Chip Witt | Don Baron |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | May 13, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2048 | Plugin configuration do not update on existing resources | Charles Lee | Kashyap Parikh |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | May 06, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2188 | HQU ResourceConfig does not deal well with naming conflicts | Jon Travis | Jon Travis |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Jun 14, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1831 | Escalation actions need to be validated | Richard Pack | Scott Feldstein |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Mar 14, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2064 | Adding a file to config track requires agent restart | Ryan Morgan | John Sachs |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | May 08, 2008 | Sep 08, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2070 | MySQL 4.1 auto discovery broken | Scott Feldstein | Kashyap Parikh |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | May 08, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2339 | Agent does not report MySQL table as unavailable after table is dropped | Scott Feldstein | Kashyap Parikh |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Aug 28, 2008 | Sep 04, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2237 | Slow query needs to be enhanced on mysql, possibly other dbs as well | Scott Feldstein | Scott Feldstein |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Jul 16, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2236 | HQ_METRIC_DATA* / EAM_NUMBERS queries on mysql are slow | Scott Feldstein | Scott Feldstein |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Jul 16, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2215 | HQ Server does not re-establish database connection if it is lost. | Scott Feldstein | John Sachs |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Jul 02, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1599 | Would like a means to filter all "unfixed" alerts in the Recent Alerts portlet | Chip Witt | Scott Morrison |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Jan 28, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2271 | Sendmail "message rejected" processes get auto-discovered as new sendmail servers | Scott Feldstein | John Sachs |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Jul 31, 2008 | Aug 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2300 | Remove server.log_track.level dropdown from FileServer File configuration properties | Doug MacEachern | Marty Messer |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Aug 18, 2008 | Aug 26, 2008 | |
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HHQ-2426 | Can't view details of ip set change | Scott Feldstein | Kashyap Parikh |
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Open
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UNRESOLVED | Sep 13, 2008 | Sep 13, 2008 | |
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