Choose and Download an Installation Package

Hyperic HQ and Hyperic Enterprise are available for download at http://www.hyperic.com/downloads.html.

This section describes the different types of installation packages.

Full Installation vs. Agent-Only Packages

The "HQ Server Package" contains the HQ Server, including a built-in database you can use for evaluation purposes, and the HQ Agent. You can use this package to install the server, the agent, or both.

The "HQ Agent Package" contains only the agent.

Platform-Specific Versus Platform-Independent

Operating system-specific packages and platform-independent packages are available.

Platform-specific installers include a JRE, and the server package includes a built-in PostgreSQL database, suitable for use in evaluations.

In HQ 4.2 and later, platform-specific HQ Agent installers include a 1.5 JRE, and platform-specific HQ Server installers include a 1.6 JRE.

Platform-independent installers do not include a JRE, or, in the case of the HQ Server installer, the built-in PostgreSQL database.

Note for Solaris Sparc Environment As of HQ 4.2 there is no platform-specific HQ Server package for Solaris SPARC. Install a no-JRE HQ Server package in Solaris SPARC environments. For information about how to ensure that HQ Server can determine what JRE to use, see HQ Components and JRE Location. A platform-specific HQ Agent package with a bundled JRE is available for SPARC Solaris in a tarball. Note: You must use GNU Tar to unpack HQ tarballs.

Select a platform-independent installer if you are installing components on a platform for which there is no platform-specific installer, or you want to use a JRE that is already installed on the host.

Package Formats

HQ installation packages are provided in these formats:

• Tarball archive - Tarball packages are available for Linux-like systems. HQ tarballs are archived with GNU Tar and must be unpacked to GNU Tar.

  Unpack Tarballs with GNU Tar Only Use GNU Tar to unpacking HQ tarballs. Use of proprietary Unix Tar utilities will result in warnings. GNU Tar is available at http://www.gnu.org

• Windows MSI package - The full installer is available as an MSI package.

• Zip archive - The full installer and an agent-only distribution are available in .zip form for use on Windows platforms that do not have a tar-compatible utility. Platform-independent packages are also available in .zip format. These packages are archived with GNU Zip. Hyperic recommends the use of GNU Zip to unpack zip archives.

• RPM package - Agent-only and server-only RPM packages are available for RedHat Linux. RPM is a method of distributing software that makes it easy to install, upgrade, query and delete. RPM files contain information on the package's name, version, other file dependency information (if applicable), platform information (such as Intel or Alpha, etc.), as well as default file install locations.

Note: The RPM package for the HQ Agent does not include a JRE.