Hyperic is application monitoring and performance management for virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructures. Auto-discover resources of 75+ technologies, including vSphere, and collect availability, performance, utilization, and throughput metrics. Features Automatically discovers, monitors, and manages software and network resources Monitors apps on any platform, including Unix, Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, VMware, and Amazon Web Services Built-in support for 75 common components—including databases, application servers, middleware, web servers, network devices and more Optimized for virtual environments with integration with vCenter and vSphere

1. Hyperic HQ
[Hyperic is application monitoring and performance management for virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructures]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hyperic-hq/
Author : Sumit Arora | sumit1234@gmail.com
Date 26th-April-2013
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2. Hyperic’s Overview
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3. “Hyperic Overview”
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Hyperic is application monitoring and performance management for virtual, physical, and clo
ud infrastructures. Auto-discover resources of 75+ technologies, including vSphere, and coll
ect availability, performance, utilization, and throughput metrics.
Features
Automatically discovers, monitors, and manages software and network resources
Monitors apps on any platform, including Unix, Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, VMwar
e, and Amazon Web Services
Built-in support for 75 common components—including databases, application servers, midd
leware, web servers, network devices and more
Optimized for virtual environments with integration with vCenter and vSphere
This diagram is a simple illustration of the key HQ components and how they fit
together.
Hyperic HQ - Hyperic's open sourc
e offering is licensed under GNU GP
L v2.
HQ Enterprise - Hyperic's industrial
strength enterprise offering has all th
e capabilities of the open source versi
on, plus advanced automation and co
ntrol features for managing web appli
cations at scale

4. Hyperic’s Installation Process
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5. “Hyperic – Server Install”
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STEP-1 : Download hyperic-hq-installer-4.6.6-x86-64-linux.tar.gz from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hyperic-hq/
STEP-2 : Untar it
STEP-3 : create a directory as /home/hyperic (if not available now )
STEP-4 : Create a user hyperic , and assign recursive chown ,chgrp for hyperic user to
/home/hyperic directories (Its very important)
e.g. root@esumit-VM2:~# chown -Rf hyperic:hyperic /home/hyperic
root@esumit-VM2:~# chgrp -Rf hyperic:hyperic /home/hyperic
STEP-5: root@esumit-VM2:~# su – hyperic (now login as user hyperic)
$ bash
hyperic@esumit-VM2:~$ ls
STEP-6 : Go to directory hyperic@esumit-VM2:/home/esumit/Downloads$ cd hyperic-
hq-installer-4.6.6 and run ./setup.sh
STEP-7 : It will ask certain yes and no on this script (from first setp choose Server to
Install)e.g. Choose which software to install:1: Hyperic HQ Server2: Hyperic HQ Agent
,HQ server installation path [default '/home/hyperic'].
STEP-8 : If everything goes well then you will receive a message :
Installation Complete:
Server successfully installed to: /home/hyperic/server-4.6.6
[ See complete log of installation here]
http://pastebin.com/mCRK6jYn

6. “Hyperic – Agent Install”
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STEP-1 : Download hyperic-hq-installer-4.6.6-x86-64-linux.tar.gz from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hyperic-hq/
STEP-2 : Untar it
STEP-3 : create a directory as /home/hyperic (if not available now )
STEP-4 : Create a user hyperic , and assign recursive chown ,chgrp for hyperic user to
/home/hyperic directories (Its very important)
e.g. root@esumit-VM2:~# chown -Rf hyperic:hyperic /home/hyperic
root@esumit-VM2:~# chgrp -Rf hyperic:hyperic /home/hyperic
STEP-5: root@esumit-VM2:~# su – hyperic (now login as user hyperic)
$ bash
hyperic@esumit-VM2:~$ ls
STEP-6 : Go to directory hyperic@esumit-VM2:/home/esumit/Downloads$ cd hyperic-
hq-installer-4.6.6 and run ./setup.sh
STEP-7 : It will ask certatin yes and no on this script e.g. Choose which software to
install:
1: Hyperic HQ Server2: Hyperic HQ Agent ,HQ server installation path [default
'/home/hyperic'].
STEP-8 : If everything goes well then you will receive a message :
Installation Complete:
Agent successfully installed to: /home/hyperic
[ See complete log of installation here]
http://pastebin.com/QtYEYPa3

7. “Hyperic – Start Agent/Server”
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Step-2: hype@esumit-VM1:/home/esumit/hype/hyperic-hq-installer-
4.6.6$ /home/hyperic/agent-4.6.6/bin/hq-agent.sh start or (stop if want to stop)
Starting HQ Agent...... running (14912).
[ Running agent setup ]
What is the HQ server IP address: 192.168.30.151
Should Agent communications to HQ always be secure [default=yes]: no
What is the HQ server port [default=7080]:
- Testing insecure connection ... Success
What is your HQ login [default=hqadmin]: hqadmin
What is your HQ password:
What IP should HQ use to contact the agent [default=127.0.1.1]: 192.168.30.150
What port should HQ use to contact the agent [default=2144]:
- Received temporary auth token from agent
- Registering agent with HQ
The server to agent communication channel is using a self-signed certificate and could
not be verified
Are you sure you want to continue connecting? [default=no]: yes
- HQ gave us the following agent token
1366706667061-4291381786817604188-3966130682331307001
- Informing agent of new HQ server
- Validating
- Successfully setup Agent/Server
Step-1: Start Server : /home/hyperic/server-4.6.6/bin/hq-server.sh start or (stop if
want to stop)

8. Hyperic’s Agent/Server are up and running
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9. “Hyperic: Server is up and running ”
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10. “Hyperic: Agent is up and Running”
Agent discovered by the
Server, and visible at the
Admin's dashboard
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11. “Hyperic : Health View”
Display the Hyperic HQ’s
Health
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12. “Hyepric: Execute Command View”
Frequently used system
command can be executed
directly from the browser
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13. “Hyperic: Execute Command View”
Frequently used System
command can be executed
directly from the browser
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14. “Hyperic : Monitoring Item’s Inventory”
Showing the list of
monitoring Objects in the
machine where Hyepric
Agent is installed
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15. “Hyperic: Agent monitor view”
A quick monitor view
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16. “Agent N/W Server Interface View”
On Clicking to network
server Interface, Shows the
indicator charts
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17. Simple Experiment : CPU Usage Monitoring
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18. “Hyepric : CPU Usage Example”
Step-1 : Executed
four program which
are running ―for
infinite
loop( for(;;);)‖
Step-2 : Checked
the CPU Usage via
top utility
Step-3 : Check the
CPU Usage data
on the Hyepric
Admin’s web
interface ?
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19. “Hyperic : CPU Usage Example”
CPU Usage
information
reflection on the
Hyperic HQ UI
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20. “Hyperic : CPU Usage Example”
CPU Usage
information
reflection on the
Hyperic HQ UI
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21. “Hyperic : CPU Usage Example”
CPU Usage
information
reflection on the
Hyperic HQ UI
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22. Simple Experiment : Apache/MySql/Wordpress
Monitoring
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23. “Hyperic : Apache/MySql Monitoring “
Apache/MySql are up and running on
the Agent Machine.
Hyepric Auto discovery automatically
finds the bindings and display as
monitoring items at the Admin
Dashboard
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24. “Hyperic : Apache/MySql Monitoring“
[Step-1] :Hosted wordpress on Apache ( A
blogging platform) and connected with
MySql database.
[Step-2] : Made various http request by
pressing refresh to access the default index
page of wordpress based blog.
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25. “Hyperic : Apache Monitoring “
Request Served per Second by Apache
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26. “Hyperic : Apache Monitoring“
Request Served per Second by Apache
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27. “Hyperic : MySql Monitoring”
Display MySQL’s stats
e.g. Slow Queries per
Minute
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28. In-built Monitoring Support/
Monitoring Item’s Graphical View
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29. “Hyperic : In-built Monitoring Support
In-built Monitoring e.g.
Application Servers
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30. “Hyperic : Monitoring Items’ graphical view
Graphical view
of monitoring
items
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31. Example : Monitoring Development
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32. “Incremental/Situation Based ㅡMonitoring
Development”
Hyepric’s Scalablity (5.0+):
Problem
We have someone who lives far from the office. To arrive each morning he needs to pass a metrop
and as you already guess, there are a lot of traffic in the morning hours.
This metropoline has the option of bypassing the traffic by using a "fast lane" which is a toll road.
Monitoring Solution :
In order to know the best hours to enter this toll road, and by that to know when the best time to lea
he developed a simple Java code that monitors the internet site of the company which operates thi
He parses their site and extract the price. He does that every 5 minutes.
Integrated such plugin/code with Hyperic
After developing this code he created an Hyperic plugin for this code and connected it to Hyperic s
he has graphs over time of when the best hours to leave home are (in which the price is the lowest
You can write your own plugins to whatever you need, as long as it has the right APIs, and see that
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33. Hyperic Plugin Example :Real-time Black hole Lists
RBL per minute is the number of emails blocked per minute using realtime blackhole lists.
(e.g. collect all probable spam based on some rules, and block them most offending domains )
(Monitoring : Email Server e.g. qmail ,SMTP or Email Client)
By blocking the most offending ones reduced the efforts to read to more useless emails
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34. Expert Comments Nagios and Hyperic,
and Hyperic’s Scalablity
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35. An Expert Comments “Nagios vs Hyperic”
It really depends of what we are looking for a full featured suite that’s going to do out monitoring
trending, or if we are looking just for the alerting piece.
From digitalocean (cloud hosting company) experience they have always defaulted to nagios
suites, wither its hyperic or zenoss provide an easy way to get started but at the end of the day the
them less flexible.
With nagios we may miss a few pretty graphs but in terms of monitoring a large number of serv
and services with very low latencies its perfect. Plus it’s very easy to integrate our own service che
our needs evolve and there's a huge community that has every conceivable check that we can thin
Ultimately it's best to use the simplest tool for the job. By conjoining monitoring, alerting, and
a suite and that begins to do a poor job of all three. Nagios is just about monitoring and alerting
and as a result gets the job done supremely well.
To offload the analytics and trending portion to something else, we can use snmp, mrtg, rrd,
or we can roll out own collection system with some help from statsd.
we can also look into collectd for collecting the statistics and displaying them which also by fo
ement of the above mentioned does a better job and also has a great amount of community support b
t cases anything that has too much focus on a GUI and not CLI tools is something we tend to
ts catering to an audience that wants ease of use, instead of fine grained control and in our ca
we always want the flexibility of fine grained control.
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36. An Expert Comments “Hyperic’s Scalablity”
Hyepric’s Scalablity (5.0+):
1.Number of Hyperic agents deployed across the infrastructure.
You will have to deploy an agent on each and every Host that you plan to monitor. There are some
around this (virtualization, solaris zones, etc), but for the most part, you are looking at deploying an
whole lotta agents. Hyperic also supports SNMP (agent less) monitoring, but not sure if you can le
the features of Hyperic using SNMP. Also, Hyperic's enterprise version bills you for every host you
(you can buy licenses in bulk, one license per every host). consider all this when choosing hyperic
2.Clustering of Hyperic server and their respective backend Databases.
Clustering Hyperic is possible, however, how you setup a cluster depends very much on how you
architecture is organized. for example - the backend DB clustering requires certain very specific th
put into place (VIP, maybe even SAN). keep this in mind when you consider hyperic.
3. Amount of data collected and stored by Hyperic.
Hyperic collects a huge amount of data, For example, if you are monitoring log files on proxy serv
generate approx 500mb of log data a day, all that data will be pushed by Hyperic into its database
which will quickly add up to a few GB in a few days.
4. It would be a good practice to prefer jumping as soon as You can to the real world and af
little bit with the product , would try and monitor a real testing environment.
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37. Further Reading
http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/
http://www.inuits.be/
http://www.virtualization.com/
http://www.oreillygmt.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hyperic-hq/
http://www.hyperic.com/
Blogs
Reviews
Answer from quora.com (digital ocean founder)
Forums from : hyperic /nagios
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