I am trying to install the latest version of Hyperic (4.6.6) on centos machine and getting this error. > /home/hq/agent-4.6.6/bin/hq-agent.sh start Installing the server… Unpacking server to: /home/hq… Creating server > configuration files… Using “small” installing profile… Copying > binaries and libraries to server installation… Copying server > configuration file… Copying server db-upgrade files… Copying > server libs… Setting up server database… Loading taskdefs… > Taskdefs loaded Loading taskdefs… Taskdefs loaded > ——————————————————————————– An ERROR [...]

I’ve been trying to find a good solution (that can run on Windows) for monitoring/trending/alarming a distributed system comprised of primarly Java technology (Tomcat, ActiveMQ, JBossCache, etc.), but also some .Net and MySQL/SQLServer. Hyperic HQ (open source version) seems like a reasonable solution, although it doesn’t support the latest version of Active MQ (5.2) or MySQL (5.1). I was wondering what sort of experiences others have had. Any advice, war stories, or alternative solutions would [...]

I’ve been running Hyperic for a few months now and for the most part I’m pretty happy with it. I have recently noticed however that the agent process seems to hog 100% of the cpu every 15 mins for about 30 secs. The servers are windows 2003, the hyperic agent is version 4.0.3. Some googling hasn’t turned up much of any use. I’d appreciate any pointers as to how I might further investigate this, or [...]

I have installed Hyperic Server 4.4.0 and I want to use an SQL plugin that connects to an Oracle database. To make this work on the Agent i had to download a JDBC driver for Oracle and put it in [agent-dir]/bundles/[bundle-dir]/pdk/lib. I can now run my plugin on the agent using java -jar hq-products.jar …. Now I want to add it so that it shows up in the server hq. I put the plugin in [...]