Hyperic HQ is an IT management framework which gives its users the ability to manage many different types of technologies from a single interface. With Hyperic HQ, you can:

• Auto-discover
  • Auto-discover resources ( platforms, servers and services )
  • Define applications and view supporting resource maps
  • Manage platform, server, service, and application inventories
• Monitor
  • Measure end-to-end application service levels
  • Track performance, availability, resource utilization, throughput and events
  • Identify root cause of application problems by drilling down through resource hierarchies
  • Correlate cause and effect
  • Analyze historical data
• Alert
  • Alert on problems as soon as they occur
  • Configure multi-condition alerts
  • Send alerts to email, cell phone or pager
  • Setup auto-recovery alerts that are linked to control actions
• Control
  • Centrally exercise a full range of resource specific commands
  • Perform pre/post control impact analysis
  • Perform one-to-many corrective actions over groups of resources
  • Auto-recover from service level outages and degradations

A brief explantion of the Hyperic HQ Architecture

Description of HQ's Inventory Model

Hyperic maintains it's inventory through an Auto-discovery process.

In addition to being able to create resources through Auto-discovery and manually through the UI, HQ allows for direct import of resource through the HQ Shell using XML. See the Inventory XML Descriptor Syntax for details on the syntax.