IONA Technologies will use Hyperic’s flagship product, Hyperic HQ Enterprise, as the foundation for its new monitoring and management system, FUSE HQ, which is available now as part of IONA’s latest version of its FUSE family of open source SOA products.

The FUSE family of products is IONA’s tested and certified releases of SOA open source projects at the Apache Software Foundation. FUSE HQ provides systems management and monitoring capabilities across all products in the FUSE family, including FUSE ESB (Apache ServiceMix), FUSE Message Broker (Apache ActiveMQ), FUSE Services Framework (Apache CXF) and FUSE Mediation Router (Apache Camel).

Key features of FUSE HQ include:

• A Web-based management console with auto discovery of managed assets
• Plug-in agents for all FUSE products
• Global configuration of views, metrics, alerts with metrics for FUSE plus management of more than 60 technologies
• Role-based access control and the ability to initiate “control actions”
• Distributed monitoring with high availability

With Hyperic, companies can centrally manage their entire infrastructure, and more efficiently and effectively avoid costly downtime. An extensible system, Hyperic HQ manages all kinds of operating systems, Web servers, application servers, and database servers. The system starts with an auto-discovery process that regularly scans the entire infrastructure to detect and begin monitoring new technology and services. This level of automation helps administrators keep pace with the rapidly changing and dynamic environments typical of SOA-based implementations.