Installing Hyperic HQ: An Overview
Do you need instructions for installing in a Windows environment or a non-Windows environment?
Upgrading? See the instructions in the Upgrade Guide.
This page provides an installation overview and enumerates the requirements for these HQ components:
Also please consult the list of supported browsers.
HQ can be installed and run in five easy steps (which are expanded on in the OS-specific instructions linked to above):
- Download HQ.
- Unpack the HQ package.
- Install the HQ Agent and HQ Server.
- Start the HQ Server.
- Start the HQ Agent.
The Full Installation Guide provides everything you need to know about deploying HQ into your IT infrastructure.
Hyperic HQ Server Requirements
System
- 1 GHz or higher Pentium 4, or equivalent (2 x 2.4GHz Pentium Xeon or equivalent recommended)
- 1 GB RAM (4 or more GB recommended)
- 1-5 GB Free Disk Space
- Supported Operating System:
- Linux
- Windows XP or 2003 Server
- Solaris 8 or higher
- HP-UX
Database
HQ Server installs configured to run on its own built-in database by default. However, for large installations, having a separate database running on a remote host is recommended. See the Database Preparation Guide for details on how to configure your database.
- PostgreSQL 8 or higher
- Oracle 9i or 10g
- MySQL 5.0 or higher (Hyperic HQ 3.1 or higher)
X Windows
On non-Windows platforms, HQ Server requires some of the X libraries to create charts and other graphics in the user interface. Specifically libXp.so.6 must be installed on the system.
On some new enterprise Linux distributions (such as RedHat ES 4 and CentOS 4), this library is in the xorg-x11-deprecated-libs RPM. For Debian, you need to install the libxp6, libxt6, libxtst6, and libx11-6 packages. In most other distributions, it is either in the XFree86-libs RPM or the xorg-x11-libs RPM.
On Fedora Core 5 (and possibly later distributions from RedHat), the libXp.so library has been split out to its own package. Therefore you must make sure to install the libXp rpm.
 | No X Libraries If your HQ installation has broken graphs and errors on many pages, this is likely the problem. Carefully review the X libraries installed on your system. If you are getting an error like the following on most of your pages in HQ, this is your problem. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
at net.hyperic.hq.ui.taglib.NavMapTag._getResourceTree(NavMapTag.java:252)
at net.hyperic.hq.ui.taglib.NavMapTag.doStartTag(NavMapTag.java:160)
..etc..
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Hyperic HQ Agent Requirements
System
- 500 MHz Celeron or higher, or equivalent
- 256 MB RAM
- 500 MB Free Disk Space
- Supported Operating System
- Linux
- Windows XP or 2003 Server
- Solaris 8 or higher
- Mac OS X
- HP-UX
- AIX
- FreeBSD
Requirements Common to the HQ Server and Agent
Java Runtime Environment
Both HQ Server and Agent come with bundled a JRE that is recommended for use. However, it is sometimes preferable to use a JRE (or JDK) that may already be installed on the system.
- JRE or JDK 1.4 or 1.5
Supported Browsers
HQ supports Firefox 1.5.x and 2.0.x, Safari, and Internet Explorer 6 and 7 browsers. Firefox is HQ's recommended browser.
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