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Apache Management Support

The Apache HTTP Server from the Apache Software Foundation is the most widely-used, highly scalable HTTP server available, powering over two-thirds of all web servers worldwide. Hyperic's expertise in managing large scale Apache infrastructure comes from an engineering team which includes some of the original Apache developers. Hyperic has used their extensive knowledge of Apache internals and Apache management best practices to develop the most secure, powerful, and production-ready Apache monitoring and management solution available.

Hyperic HQ's Apache management plugin offers auto-discovery and monitoring of any Apache installation on a host machine, as well as automatic discovery of all Virtual Hosts defined in the server's configuration file. Hyperic HQ's Apache monitoring capabilities are made exposed via a management module which is packaged with the HQ distribution and allows the HQ agent to collect server and vhost metrics. This module can be easily installed in any version of the Apache web server, across all the operating systems supported by Hyperic HQ. Hyperic HQ also includes an Apache response time tracking module which reports on real per-URL request level response times for the server as well as each configured Virtual Host.

HQ also integrates its comprehensive monitoring of Apache health and performance with the ability to track log and configuration files. HQ allows an Apache administrator to record any error, info, or debug log level message found in an Apache log file back to the HQ management server. Administrators can also track the configuration files for Apache and generate events any time they are changed. These events are stored in HQ's database and can be used to generate alerts or to do on the fly correlation analysis against other metrics.

Hyperic HQ's control capability is designed to allow for easy administration of large distributed Apache environments. HQ's Apache control feature can perform a variety of on demand, scheduled, or alert driven control actions on the Apache server process. These control operations include normal start and stop actions as well as more specialized tasks such as warm restarts, ssl-start and configuration tests. All these control operations are logged in HQ's event history to provide an auditable log of all Apache management activities performed via HQ.

For more information, visit our HyperFORGE Apache plugin page.

Additional Details

Auto-Discover your hardware and Apache servers
Monitor every metric, log, and configuration for all Apache resources in your inventory
Identify problem resources with automatic baselines for every metric
Control all your Apache resources on-demand, on schedule, or in response to alerts
Alert on any measurement, log, or security event in your Apache environment

Apache Supported Versions

Apache httpd
Apache 1.3
Apache 2.0
Apache 2.2
Apache-ERS 2.3
Apache-ERS 2.4
Apache-ERS 3.x

Apache Monitoring Specification

General Server Metrics
   Availability
   Busy Servers
   Idle Servers
   Busy Workers
   Idle Workers
   Bytes Served per Second
   Bytes Served per Request
   Requests Served per Second
   CPU Load
   Requests Served
   Requests Served per Minute
   Bytes Served
   Bytes Served per Minute
   Waiting
   Starting
   Reading
   Sending
   Keepalive
   DNS
   Closing
   Logging
   Finishing
   Free

Resource Utilization Metrics
   Number of Concurrent Connections

Reliability Metrics
   Availability
   Start Time

Throughput Metrics
   Total Number of Bytes Received
   Total Number of Bytes Received per Minute
   Total Number of Bytes Sent
   Total Number of Bytes Sent per Minute
   Total Number of Requests
   Total Number of Requests per Minute
   Total Number of Responses
   Total Number of Responses per Minute

Request Metrics
   Bytes Received for GET Requests
   Bytes Received for GET Requests per Minute
   Bytes Received for HEAD Requests
   Bytes Received for HEAD Requests per Minute
   Bytes Received for POST Requests
   Bytes Received for POST Requests per Minute
   Bytes Received for PUT Requests
   Bytes Received for PUT Requests per Minute
   Number of GET Requests
   Number of GET Requests per Minute
   Number of HEAD Requests
   Number of HEAD Requests per Minute
   Number of POST Requests
   Number of POST Requests per Minute
   Number of PUT Requests
   Number of PUT Requests per Minute

Response Metrics
   Bytes Sent for 200 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 200 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 301 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 301 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 302 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 302 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 401 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 401 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 403 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 403 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 404 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 404 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 500 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 500 Responses per Minute
   Number of 200 Responses
   Number of 200 Responses per Minute
   Number of 301 Responses
   Number of 301 Responses per Minute
   Number of 302 Responses
   Number of 302 Responses per Minute
   Number of 401 Responses
   Number of 401 Responses per Minute
   Number of 403 Responses
   Number of 403 Responses per Minute
   Number of 404 Responses
   Number of 404 Responses per Minute
   Number of 500 Responses
   Number of 500 Responses per Minute

Apache 1.3, Apache 2.0, Apache 2.2, Apache-ERS 2.3, Apache-ERS 2.4 and Apache-ERS 3.x VHost Metrics
   Bytes Received for GET Requests
   Bytes Received for GET Requests per Minute
   Bytes Received for HEAD Requests
   Bytes Received for HEAD Requests per Minute
   Bytes Received for POST Requests
   Bytes Received for POST Requests per Minute
   Bytes Received for PUT Requests
   Bytes Received for PUT Requests per Minute
   Number of GET Requests
   Number of GET Requests per Minute
   Number of HEAD Requests
   Number of HEAD Requests per Minute
   Number of POST Requests
   Number of POST Requests per Minute
   Number of PUT Requests
   Number of PUT Requests per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 200 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 200 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 301 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 301 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 302 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 302 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 401 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 401 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 403 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 403 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 404 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 404 Responses per Minute
   Bytes Sent for 500 Responses
   Bytes Sent for 500 Responses per Minute
   Number of 200 Responses
   Number of 200 Responses per Minute
   Number of 301 Responses
   Number of 301 Responses per Minute
   Number of 302 Responses
   Number of 302 Responses per Minute
   Number of 401 Responses
   Number of 401 Responses per Minute
   Number of 403 Responses
   Number of 403 Responses per Minute
   Number of 404 Responses
   Number of 404 Responses per Minute
   Number of 500 Responses
   Number of 500 Responses per Minute
   Availability
   Total Number of Bytes Received
   Total Number of Bytes Received per Minute
   Total Number of Bytes Sent
   Total Number of Bytes Sent per Minute
   Total Number of Requests
   Total Number of Requests per Minute
   Total Number of Responses
   Total Number of Responses per Minute

Apache httpd, Apache 1.3, Apache 2.0, Apache 2.2, Apache-ERS 2.3, Apache-ERS 2.4 and Apache-ERS 3.x mod_jk Worker Metrics
   Availability
   Bytes Read
   Bytes Read per Minute
   Bytes Sent
   Bytes Sent per Minute
   Errors
   Errors per Minute
   Client Errors
   Client Errors per Minute
   Busy

Apache Control Specification

Control Actions
start
stop
restart
graceful
startssl
configtest

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