Open source software and hardware auto discovery tool

servers Does your organization manage and maintain any of the following applications and servers?

Exchange Server for email and messaging
LAMP Server for all php and mysql applications
Coldfusion for coldfusion applications
Windows Server for .NET applications
SQL Server or PostgreSQL for databases

If any of above are running within your datacenter or server room,the next question is, are the servers currently being monitored?

It is vital to know the performance and health of each of the servers to ensure that services are running at all times without any glitches.

In case the server has a problem, the owner of the server has to be the first to be alerted so that he can take the appropriate measure to fix and prevent the problem from reoccuring.

Utilizing the right tools will help your server administrators to proactively monitor servers rather than being reactive to a server error. Image by Jamison_Judd

If a tool is capable of software and hardware auto discovery, that would be even better since all you need to do is to install it and the auto-discovery capability gives you and accurate inventory of all hardware and software which are installed within your infrastructure.

Wondering if there are any tool like this? Yes! It’s called Hyperic HQ Open Source. Yes, you read it right, it’s open source.

Hyperic HQ Open Source provides many server monitoring features which your organization can definitely benefit from:

Auto Discovery
Monitor and track server performance, configuration and security changes
Event alerting
Escalation schemes
Integrate with Nagios
Obtain support from community forums

various-display Hyperic HQ Open Source is definitely a great fully functioning monitoring and systems management tool for small environments with low to medium complexitiy. Larger enterprises with complex environment may benefit more from the Hyperic HQ Enterprise Edition at a minimal cost.

Some Hyperic customers who have provided case studies includes:

MOSSO
Hi5
Contegix
Diversified Check Solutions

With so many satisfied customers using Hyperic’s software, I can be assured that it is a reliable tool which helps with server monitoring effectively.

Give Hyperic HQ Open Source a try today!

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