HQ 3.2 Release Notes
Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 Now Available
Hyperic HQ 3.2.3 is now officially available, download it here
. This is a maintenance release to HQ 3.2, which was 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.
Build #659
Introducing HQU Plugins
The HQU Plugin Framework provides easy access for operations to script and automate tasks so that they can better organize and manage their infrastructure. Written in Groovy, an easy to use, dynamic scripting language for the Java Virtual Machine, HQU's modular design enables plugins to be easily shared and added to live Hyperic HQ environments without stopping or restarting the HQ server. This saves significant time and resources and allows users to evolve their management approach over time.
Hyperic HQU plugins can be applied in three ways. Each application is fully documented, and useful examples are available on the Hyperic community HyperFORGE. Key applications include:
- Custom UI views allow improved tracking and automation of specific applications or hard-to-manage tasks. For example, an event log viewer makes it easier to find and fix problems through a comprehensive, filterable view of log data monitored across all HQ managed resources.
- Web Services integration allows Hyperic to easily syndicate key data across all systems that manage IT infrastructure. As an example, the OpenNMS integration exemplifies its ability to share inventory and alert information with a network management solution.
- A Groovy script console leverages templates to simplify manual, error-prone tasks through automation, such as creating HTTP check services for resources in a group.
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
Known Issues in 3.2
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Issues Fixed for 3.2.3
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HHQ-1607 | Last Name not saved in UI for LDAP users | Ryan Morgan | Scott Morrison |
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FIXED | Feb 04, 2008 | May 06, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1824 | Creating a group containing resources with same name ends up with only 1 member | Charles Lee | Kashyap Parikh |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 14, 2008 | Apr 16, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1933 | Event Center plugin should also be upgraded from 3.2.2 | Jon Travis | Nipuna Bhayani |
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Closed
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FIXED | Apr 04, 2008 | Apr 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1958 | Many runnable threads at ValueChangeTrigger.processEvent | Tom Keeney | Kashyap Parikh |
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Closed
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FIXED | Apr 10, 2008 | Apr 16, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1961 | Java level deadlock on ZeventProcessor | Jon Travis | Kashyap Parikh |
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Closed
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FIXED | Apr 11, 2008 | Apr 16, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1960 | Hibernate locking up on getting DerivedMeasurementDAO.get | Ryan Morgan | Kashyap Parikh |
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Closed
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FIXED | Apr 11, 2008 | Apr 14, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1894 | Update hq-sendmail-stat script to support more platforms | Scott Feldstein | John Sachs |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 28, 2008 | Apr 21, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1881 | Stack trace when try to change the owner of the resource after the original owner gets deleted | Charles Lee | Nipuna Bhayani |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 25, 2008 | Apr 16, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1889 | Show All drop down and next page in Recent Alerts Configure page displays 0 results | Charles Lee | Nipuna Bhayani |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 27, 2008 | Apr 15, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1323 | Sendmail auto-discovered with the wrong path | Scott Feldstein | Kashyap Parikh |
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Closed
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FIXED | Nov 30, 2007 | Jul 02, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1718 | Version in agent resource name not updated unless installpath changes | Doug MacEachern | John Sachs |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 03, 2008 | Apr 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1808 | When Resource Browsing by Group, attempting to select subsequent pages within group results in returning all platforms. | Charles Lee | Scott Morrison |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 13, 2008 | Apr 15, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1844 | IIS plugin auto-discovers deleted VHosts | Doug MacEachern | Doug MacEachern |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 18, 2008 | May 15, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1914 | Add "Start Type" metric to Windows Service | Doug MacEachern | Doug MacEachern |
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Closed
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FIXED | Apr 02, 2008 | Apr 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1951 | Configuration Option server.java.opts in hq-server.conf Broken When Read by hq-server.sh. | Ryan Morgan | Brad Felmey (PDX) |
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Closed
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FIXED | Apr 08, 2008 | Apr 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1779 | Group Alerts for NTP "Peer Average Offset" doesn't allow values < 1 | Charles Lee | Scott Morrison |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 07, 2008 | Apr 16, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1874 | When trying to add roles to a user , Add to List does not bring up a list of roles | Charles Lee | Scott Morrison |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 24, 2008 | Apr 15, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1892 | Mass autodiscovery approves ignored servers | Ryan Morgan | Ryan Morgan |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 27, 2008 | Apr 29, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1916 | Sendmail plugin breaks with large queue | Scott Feldstein | Scott Morrison |
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Closed
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FIXED | Apr 02, 2008 | Apr 21, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1926 | Alert definition does not show the action details to see if they are alerting via SMS or Email | Charles Lee | Scott Morrison |
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Closed
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FIXED | Apr 04, 2008 | Apr 15, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1957 | SNMP monitoring of WinXP does not work | Doug MacEachern | Kashyap Parikh |
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Closed
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FIXED | Apr 10, 2008 | Apr 16, 2008 | |
Issues Fixed for 3.2.2
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HHQ-1725 | Infinite Recursion in ServerManager.getServerResourceValue() | Charles Lee | Charles Lee |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 03, 2008 | Mar 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1791 | Multi-condition alerts locking up | Tom Keeney | Jon Travis |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 10, 2008 | Mar 21, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1805 | Allow for unattended auto-inventory approvals from outside the HQ UI. | Ryan Morgan | Ryan Morgan |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 12, 2008 | Mar 18, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1591 | Event Center | Jon Travis | Jon Travis |
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Closed
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FIXED | Jan 24, 2008 | Mar 19, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1592 | Stack while deleting platfrm service from Platform / Inventory page | Ryan Morgan | Jon Travis |
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Closed
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FIXED | Jan 24, 2008 | Mar 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1711 | Backfiller is overly aggressive | Charles Lee | Charles Lee |
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Closed
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FIXED | Feb 28, 2008 | Mar 24, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1728 | Currently Down needs lots of work | Charles Lee | Jon Travis |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 04, 2008 | Mar 24, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1741 | Get a stack trace and "Object already exist" error when editing General Properties of certian Compatiable groups | Scott Feldstein | Scott Morrison |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 04, 2008 | Mar 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1795 | Missing index on EAM_METRIC_AUX_LOGS.metric_id | Ryan Morgan | Ryan Morgan |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 10, 2008 | Mar 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1835 | Platform discovery fails on Solaris 8 & 9 (sparc) | Doug MacEachern | Doug MacEachern |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 18, 2008 | Mar 19, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1859 | Random PlatformNotFoundExceptions | Ryan Morgan | Ryan Morgan |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 20, 2008 | Apr 01, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1542 | Stack while deleting platform (while agent is getting shut off?) | Ryan Morgan | Jon Travis |
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Closed
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FIXED | Jan 17, 2008 | Mar 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1626 | Sendmail plugin fills log with permission errors | Scott Feldstein | Jon Travis |
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Closed
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FIXED | Feb 12, 2008 | Apr 01, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1648 | Setting A Duration or Counter On An Alert, Then Disabling That Setting Corrupts Recovery Alerts - Preventing Them From Firing | Tom Keeney | Tom Keeney |
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Closed
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FIXED | Feb 15, 2008 | Jun 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1684 | Group alert conditions being evaluated too aggressively | Tom Keeney | John Sachs |
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Closed
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FIXED | Feb 26, 2008 | Mar 28, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1709 | Stack Trace when adding a resource to "favorite resource" on dashboard | Charles Lee | Scott Morrison |
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Closed
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FIXED | Feb 28, 2008 | Mar 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1744 | Some charts take 2+ minutes to draw | Charles Lee | Jon Travis |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 04, 2008 | Mar 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1849 | HQU needs to handle multipart posts better | Jon Travis | Jon Travis |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 19, 2008 | Mar 19, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1851 | Event Center / Alert Center table jumps around | Richard Pack | Jon Travis |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 19, 2008 | Mar 24, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1865 | Stacktrace adding a resource to a group | Ryan Morgan | John Sachs |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 21, 2008 | Apr 16, 2008 | |
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HHQ-711 | Oracle client is discovered as "Oracle 10g" | Doug MacEachern | Noah Salzman |
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Closed
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FIXED | Feb 21, 2007 | Mar 20, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1647 | MS SQL Server auto-discovery should not use the Windows Registry | Doug MacEachern | Scott Feldstein |
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Closed
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FIXED | Feb 15, 2008 | Mar 25, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1618 | Wildcard Resource Searches do not work on HQ 3.2 | Charles Lee | Scott Morrison |
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Closed
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FIXED | Feb 07, 2008 | Mar 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1706 | WebLogic 9.x and 10.x Admin server admin.url might not be properly auto-configured | Doug MacEachern | Doug MacEachern |
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FIXED | Feb 27, 2008 | Feb 27, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1710 | WebLogic 10 JDBC Connection Pool may use wrong MBean ObjectName | Doug MacEachern | Doug MacEachern |
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Closed
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FIXED | Feb 28, 2008 | Apr 17, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1713 | WebLogic classpath discovery may cause NPE | Doug MacEachern | Doug MacEachern |
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Closed
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FIXED | Mar 01, 2008 | Mar 24, 2008 | |
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HHQ-1757 | Oracle discovery plugin should not enable default metric collection for the server | ||||||||