Suppose that you or your software development team has managed to create a wonderful product which is planned to run smoothly on several web and database servers. Actually, online web software alone doesn’t mean much if you don’t provide constant availability and scalability to its customers. Providing the best service is only possible with a high quality systems monitoring service. As a professional who has worked as DB Admin and .Net web applications developer for several years, there are certain quality criteria for this service. It should immediately warn me about the bottlenecks and system failures, even in the process level help finding it. I remember that a special process triggered by a credit card application used in a bank which I have developed reports before, was always taking the CPU sources near to %90, and we couldn’t long time identify it because the system tracking software was not powerful enough.
Hyperic looks like one of the most efficient open source server management and monitoring software in the market.
First of all, all their products are open source and provides everything you can imagine and being developed regularly. Open source also means that you don’t have to bind yourself to a giant company which will charge you money for every server to manage.
Second, professional Hyperic products are being used already by heavily visited application websites like hi5, Cnet, real.com.
Third point is that server monitoring product should be very easy to install, deploy and use. I don’t want to be a master Linux system admin to be able to use the product. Hyperic sofware interface is intuitive and easy to use.
Hyperic offers different scaled software for different needs on a great range of operating systems including AIX, HP, Linux, Solaris, Windows, Mac OSX, FreeBSD. Hyperic Open Source, Enterprise editions, Operations IQ, Amazon edition, Cloud monitoring are main product lines.
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