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Find the Perfect Application Management Platform For Your Business
Find the Perfect Application Management Platform For Your Business
vFabric Hyperic is available in two product editions: Open Source Edition and Enterprise Edition. Each includes powerful monitoring and management features designed to meet the individual needs of your company.
- Hyperic Open Source Edition: Full function monitoring and management for small environments with low to medium complexity.
- Hyperic Enterprise Edition: Full function monitoring and management plus automation and intelligence features designed for larger, more complex environments.
Each edition can be downloaded free as a fully functional, time-limited evaluation copy for managing up to 50 resources. For extended trial durations and pricing information, contact Hyperic Sales. Hyperic support subscriptions are also available at additional cost.
These Enterprise Edition features are not included in Open Source Edition:
- Deployment and Administration Automation: Agent remote control, platform cloning, and scheduling downtime
- Advanced Alerting: Individual and group alerts, global templates, scripted actions, follow-the-sun alerts, and multi-conditional logic
- Scheduling: The ability to schedule restarting services, garbage collection runs, and other maintenance functions
- Enterprise Security. Role-based control and integration with LDAP, Kerberos, AD, and unidirectional agent communication
- Analysis Tools. Role-based dashboards, charts, resource group views, and data extrapolation
- Scalability and Reliability. Failover plus batch inserting at the database layer to optimize performance at scale
- Support: 24x7x365
- Maintenance: Patches, bug fixes, and new functionality in standard release cycles
The Hyperic edition that’s right for you depends on your company size, the monitoring components you require, and your desired levels of customization, integration, and support. Use the comparison chart below to guide your assessment.
vFabric Hyperic Feature Comparision
| Features | Open Source | Enterprise |
| Deployment & Administration | ||
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| Auto-Discovery |  |
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| Remote Control and Update of HQ Agent | |
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| HQ Failover Support | |
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| Platform Cloning | |
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| Monitoring Features | ||
| Monitor Metrics | |
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| Track Performance, Configuration and Security Changes | |
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| Historical Charting and Graphing Performance | |
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| Customizable Dashboard | |
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| JMX MBean Query | |
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| Scheduled Downtime for Resource Groups | |
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| Metric Data Extrapolation | |
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| Role-Based Dashboard | |
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| Report Center | |
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| Alerting Features | ||
| Availability Alerting | |
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| Event Alerting | |
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| Recovery Alerts | |
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| Escalation Schemes | |
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| Performance Baselining for Alert thresholds | |
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| Global Alert Templates for Groups of Resources | |
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| Multi-Conditional Alerting | |
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| Time-of-Day Alerting | |
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| Resource Type Alerts | |
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| Filtered Notifications | |
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| Role-Based Notifications | |
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| Script Actions | |
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| Control Features | ||
| User Initiated Control Actions | |
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| Automatic Corrective Actions for Alert Responses | |
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| Scheduled Control Actions | |
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| Security and Access/Authorization Control | ||
| External Authentication with LDAP or Kerberos | |
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| Unidirectional Agent Server Communications | |
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| Role-Based Access Control | |
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| Extensibility | ||
| Nagios Integration | |
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| Plugin Development Kit for Resource Plugins | |
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| HQU Framework for UI, Automation, and Integration Plugins | |
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| Web Services API | |
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| Open NMS Integration | |
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| Support Services | ||
| Hyperic Forums | |
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| Hyperic Documentation | |
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| Hyperic Subscription Support | |
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| Guaranteed Response Time | |
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| Hyperic Technical Account Management | |
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| Training |  |
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| Professional Services | |
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