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Hyperic HQ Architecture

Hyperic HQ is the industry leader in systems management software designed specifically for today's complex web infrastructure operating in production. Some of the world's largest websites rely on Hyperic to help them track performance, alert, diagnose and control their operations running at scale.

With 85% of our customers providing weekly updates to customer facing systems, these companies demand automation, broad product support and scalability to keep pace with their own growth. HQ is tailored for monitoring web infrastructure and composite applications and driving availability of these rapidly evolving systems.

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Hyperic HQ's architecture is composed of the following elements:

Real-World Inventory Model

The logical data model of an application is the first thing that should be defined in any complex application. Before designing any other aspect of HQ's technology, Hyperic engineers worked with some of today's largest companies to define an inventory model for HQ representing industry best-practice for how IT operators view the things they manage on a day to day basis.

HQ's inventory model is based on the following concepts:

The HQ inventory model allows users to manage vastly different types of technologies using the same principles and processes allowing IT operators with different skill sets to have the same degree of control over your infrastructure.

Technology Independent Management Server

In order to deliver on the promise of a scalable consolidated management framework which meets today's IT needs, Hyperic designed the HQ Server to implement all of its management capabilities in a technology independent way. This way, the features and management processes represented by HQ's portal-based user interface are designed around the way people like to manage their infrastructure, rather than around the idiosyncrasies of the products being managed.

As HQ's central nervous system, the HQ server coordinates all system functions, including:

In large environments, the HQ server can be clustered for enhanced fault tolerance and to share the overall system load across multiple machines.

Large Volume Data Repository

The data repository is a key component of the HQ system. It stores all HQ-related data in a relational schema and is responsible for ensuring data integrity and coordinating concurrent access to data. The repository also ensures HQ's ability to store up to two years of monitoring data for your entire infrastructure with no performance or scalability penalty.

As part of making Hyperic HQ an easy to deploy solution accessible to all IT organizations, HQ includes a built in database which can be used in even the most demanding HQ installations to provide easy, zero administration storage of all HQ data.

Platform & Technology Specific HQ Agents

Acting as the sensory facilities of the HQ system, HQ Agents are deployed throughout the infrastructure to provide points-of-presence for discovering inventory, gathering data, controlling software, and other management tasks. HQ Agents are designed to be minimally invasive and not compete for resources with the products being managed. They also are implemented using the most secure SSL and x509 certificate technologies to ensure firewall friendly, secure operation.

HQ's built-in deployer tool makes quick work of installing and managing all your HQ agents -- without ever having to individually visit each managed machine.

Web Based Portal Interface

HQ's web-based graphical user interface makes it easy to manage your infrastructure from anywhere. The GUI is implemented as a flexible and configurable portal which allows each HQ user to customize their entire HQ experience so they can more effectively manage large amounts of complex infrastructure. Portlets can be created, removed, and moved around the portal.

HQ's GUI aims to provide an inventory, monitoring, corrective control, and alerting environment which implements the best practices of both proactive and reactive IT management in a rich, personalized environment. HQ's monitoring interface provides a powerful comparative analysis metaphor which allows a user to construct views of monitoring data which spans the inventory hierarchy.

Technologies Managed

Operating Systems | Web Servers | Application Servers | Databases | Messaging Middleware | Microsoft Technology | Virtualization |
Mail Servers | Network Management | Application Management | Distributed Platforms | Application Platforms | Integrated Applications