Auto-Discover App Components, Slash Monitoring Configuration Times

Reduce Implementation Effort and Complexity

vFabric Hyperic manages, monitors, and controls large heterogeneous IT environments ranging from hundreds to thousands of machines. With little manual effort, you can put Hyperic monitoring to work within minutes of installation, across both physical and virtual infrastructure. After a quick set-up process, Hyperic begins to scan host machines, finds the software and services running on them, and adds everything to its database.

Automatic and Change-Aware

Hyperic automatically builds an inventory of system, infrastructure, and software components within the managed environment. When changes occur—such as modifications to software versions or network identifiers—Hyperic logs them and can take action based on defined rules. For example, you can set up Hyperic to notify the operations team whenever a developer updates the app server version.
 

VM-Savvy

Once you start a new ESX or virtual machine instance, Hyperic automatically adds it to inventory, configures monitoring parameters, and begins collecting performance metrics and events. This level of automation lets you deploy fully monitored VMs with minimal incremental effort, helping you quickly scale out monitoring across your virtual infrastructure.
 

Cross-Platform

Hyperic’s auto-discovery works across most platforms. It is powered by Hyperic's System Information Gatherer (SIGAR), a cross-platform API for collecting software inventory data across all major platforms including Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX—and in disparate run-time environments, from Java to .NET.
 

Extensible

Out-of-the-box, Hyperic auto-discovers over 75 common operating systems, application servers, HTTP servers, databases, and other software and network resources. Plus, you can tap into our vibrant monitoring community where developers and systems administrators share additional plug-ins. For anything else, you can use SIGAR and the Hyperic Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) to extend discovery and management.

SIGAR offers both source code and binary distributions, including native libraries for all supported platforms, examples, and documentation. Users of the SIGAR API receive portable access to inventory and monitoring data such as:

• System memory, swap, CPU, load average, uptime, logins
• Per-process memory, CPU, credential info, state, arguments, environment, open files
• File system detection and metrics
• Network interface detection, configuration information, and metrics
• Network route and connection tables