Release Notes

Hyperic HQ 3.0.5

Hyperic HQ 3.0.5 is the latest release of Hyperic HQ, the most complete IT management solution for open source and commercial infrastructure.

Binary Downloads

  • 3.0.5 HQ Release Binaries: hosted by SourceForge
  • 3.0.5 HQ Enterprise Evaluation Binaries: Hyperic

Installation Instructions

New Features in 3.0

  • Operations Dashboard — central view for real-time, general health of entire infrastructure managed
  • More Powerful Alerting — Alert escalation, alert acknowledgment, RSS actions
  • Group Alert Definition — Allow groups to define alert definitions based on the group members
  • Event Tracking & Correlation — historical and real-time information from any log resource, configuration file, or security module that can be
    correlated with availability, utilization and performance
  • Corrective Control — perform any product-specific action available

Enhancements in 3.0

  • Processing metric data is now much more efficient, reducing the load on HQ and the database and improving responsiveness to the agents.

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:

Enhancements in 3.0.5

The key focus of 3.0.5 was performance and scalability, but it includes many other important bug fixes and enhancements.

  • Fixes for broken Recovery alerting in 3.0.4
  • Ability to disable control actions in the OSS version
  • Better formatting of metric units in alert emails

The full list of changes can be seen below.

Issues Fixed for 3.0.5

Hyperic JIRA (25 issues)
T Key Summary Assignee Reporter Pr Status Res Created Updated Due
Improvement HHQ-999 Remove restriction on aliases in plugins Scott Feldstein Scott Feldstein Minor Closed FIXED Jul 24, 2007 Aug 08, 2007
Bug HHQ-911 VMware plugin does not allow authd.client.port==0 Doug MacEachern Doug MacEachern Trivial Resolved FIXED May 29, 2007 May 29, 2007
Bug HHQ-905 WebLogic windows service discovery does not find new instances Doug MacEachern Doug MacEachern Minor Resolved FIXED May 23, 2007 May 23, 2007
Bug HHQ-904 Agent<->Server communication requires IP addresses instead of DNS addrs Jon Travis Jon Travis Minor Closed FIXED May 23, 2007 May 31, 2007
Improvement HHQ-903 Add VMware Server support for x64 Linux Doug MacEachern Doug MacEachern Minor Resolved FIXED May 22, 2007 May 22, 2007
Improvement HHQ-901 Add paused state support to script plugins Doug MacEachern Doug MacEachern Minor Resolved FIXED May 21, 2007 May 21, 2007
Improvement HHQ-900 NFS FileSystem Mounts should not be auto-discovered Doug MacEachern Doug MacEachern Minor Resolved FIXED May 17, 2007 May 01, 2008
Bug HHQ-898 Cannot disable collection interval for a selected Metric Charles Lee Nipuna Bhayani Major Closed FIXED May 10, 2007 May 18, 2007
Bug HHQ-895 WebLogic plugin does not discover multiple admin servers when installed as Windows services Doug MacEachern Doug MacEachern Minor Resolved FIXED May 11, 2007 May 11, 2007
Bug HHQ-893 WebLogic plugin not discovering all cluster nodes Doug MacEachern Doug MacEachern Major Resolved FIXED May 09, 2007 May 09, 2007
Bug HHQ-892 Paging incorrect on compatible group metric data tab Charles Lee Ryan Morgan Major Closed FIXED May 09, 2007 May 16, 2007
Bug HHQ-891 Throughput column on compatible group metric data tab shows en_US.resource.common.monitor.visibility.performance.NotAvail Charles Lee Ryan Morgan Minor Closed FIXED May 09, 2007 May 10, 2007
Bug HHQ-887 Email alerts do not properly display units for the metric values Charles Lee John Sachs Major Closed FIXED May 07, 2007 May 16, 2007
New Feature HHQ-883 Alert notifications should contain the time the alert fired Charles Lee John Sachs Major Closed FIXED May 07, 2007 May 09, 2007
Bug HHQ-881 Compatible group charts broken when not all members are collecting Charles Lee Ryan Morgan Critical Closed FIXED May 05, 2007 May 09, 2007
Improvement HHQ-880 Need ability to preload caches at startup, to accomodate large sites and provide better startup experience Jon Travis Jon Travis Major Closed FIXED May 04, 2007 May 09, 2007
Improvement HHQ-879 Browse Resources spending lot of time coming up resource counts Charles Lee Charles Lee Major Closed FIXED May 04, 2007 Jan 31, 2008
Bug HHQ-877 UpdateBoss spinning out of control Jon Travis Jon Travis Major Closed FIXED May 04, 2007 Oct 09, 2007
New Feature HHQ-876 Add Directory service where metrics apply to sub-directories within Doug MacEachern Doug MacEachern Minor Closed FIXED May 04, 2007 Feb 07, 2008
Bug HHQ-875 Directory Disk Usage has incorrect units Doug MacEachern Doug MacEachern Minor Closed FIXED May 04, 2007 May 09, 2007
Bug HHQ-871 High load and transaction timeouts on server restart when lather connections setting is high Jon Travis Ryan Morgan Blocker Closed FIXED May 03, 2007 May 09, 2007
Improvement HHQ-870 Need ability to disable control Doug MacEachern Ryan Morgan Critical Closed FIXED May 03, 2007 Jun 22, 2007
Bug HHQ-867 Slow collection of metrics may cause platform availability to not be collected Ryan Morgan Ryan Morgan Critical Closed FIXED May 01, 2007 Sep 25, 2007
Bug HHQ-866 Sybase Plugin for HQ 3.0.4 has some issues Scott Feldstein Scott Feldstein Minor Closed FIXED May 01, 2007 May 04, 2007
Bug HHQ-834 Apache 2.2 resource stopped collecting metrics Doug MacEachern Ryan Morgan Major Closed FIXED Apr 19, 2007 Feb 07, 2008

Hyperic JIRA (13 issues)
T Key Summary Assignee Reporter Pr Status Res Created Updated Due
Bug HQ-695 Full metric chart does not refresh Heather Tumey Charles Lee Major Closed FIXED May 23, 2007 May 31, 2007
Bug HQ-693 SNMP Trap Missing from Escalation Actions Heather Tumey Chip Witt Major Closed FIXED May 22, 2007 May 31, 2007
Bug HQ-689 RtScheduleVerification service can hang other services dependent on the Timer service Ryan Morgan Ryan Morgan Critical Closed FIXED May 16, 2007 Jul 10, 2007
Bug HQ-688 Global Alert Definition actions do not get updated Charles Lee Charles Lee Major Closed FIXED May 14, 2007 Jun 05, 2007
Bug HQ-683 If user has Role permissions, but not User permissions, the display in Administration is bad Heather Tumey Charles Lee Major Closed FIXED May 09, 2007 May 10, 2007
Bug HQ-682 Stacktrace on metric data pages if user does not have permission to see auto-group members Charles Lee Ryan Morgan Critical Closed FIXED May 08, 2007 May 09, 2007
Bug HQ-680 User with all permissions cannot list roles or escalations Charles Lee Charles Lee Major Closed FIXED May 08, 2007 May 09, 2007
Bug HQ-677 Transaction rollbacks in EmailAction when notified role has been deleted Charles Lee Ryan Morgan Critical Closed FIXED May 07, 2007 May 09, 2007
Bug HQ-671 Stack trace in Alert list page,because of the value null Charles Lee Nipuna Bhayani Major Closed FIXED May 03, 2007 May 09, 2007
Bug HQ-669 Performance problem with Chart View on Browse Resources Charles Lee Ryan Morgan Major Closed FIXED May 02, 2007 Jan 31, 2008
Bug HQ-535 Stacktrace when removing a global alertdef for a resource type with many entities Charles Lee John Sachs Critical Closed FIXED Mar 01, 2007 May 25, 2007
Bug HQ-427 Changes at the resource level do not override global alertdef Charles Lee John Sachs Major Closed FIXED Dec 18, 2006 Jul 24, 2007
Bug HQ-400 Problem Resources portlet is slow - can cause dashboard to hang Charles Lee John Sachs Major Closed FIXED Oct 09, 2006 Jul 02, 2007

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