Hyperic HQ Overview

Hyperic HQ is an IT-management framework that gives its users the ability to manage many different types of technologies (in Hyperic lingo, resources) from a single interface. With Hyperic HQ, you can:

Inventory the resources on your network
Monitor those resources
Alert on problems with those resources
Control those resources

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Inventory the Resources on Your Network

Hyperic HQ maintains an inventory of your network through an auto-discovery process. HQ organizes what it finds on your network as prescribed by HQ's inventory model. This process of discovering and inventorying is the foundation for all other HQ capabilities.

Auto-discover resources (Hyperic's umbrella term for platforms, servers, and services)
Define applications — collections of platforms, servers, and services organized to fulfill a single business purpose — and view supporting resource maps
Manage inventories for all these platforms, servers, services, and applications

(In addition to creating resources automatically through auto-discovery and allowing users to manually create them through the UI, HQ allows for direct import of resources through the HQ Shell.)

Learn more about HQ's auto-discovery process and inventory model.

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Monitor Your Resources

Hyperic HQ provides both numerical (for example, throughput) and non-numerical (for example, logs, configuration data) data for all resources under its management. With this wealth of data, you can:

Measure end-to-end application service levels
Track performance, availability, resource utilization, throughput, and events
Identify the root cause of application problems by drilling down through resource hierarchies
Correlate cause and effect
Analyze historical data

Learn more about monitoring resources.

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