RHQ Management Platform

Blog post edited by Jason Dobies The release can be downloaded and full release notes found at the RHQ wiki. Read More... View Online

Blog post added by Greg Hinkle Autocomplete is a feature that I can not live without. It must be the curse of using better and better IDEs and phones. Not that I'm ... [More] too lazy to type out the rest of a command, but something drives me nuts about the inefficiency of having to do it when I could use that time to do something more useful. So when it came time to write the command line interface for RHQ last year I knew it was a feature we had to get in there somehow. Read More... View Online [Less]

Blog post added by John Mazzitelli I decided to revisit that Byteman prototype from a few months ago and build it out further. With this RHQ-Byteman integration ... [More] , you can now do remote byte-code injection into any Java virtual machine. The uses for this kind of thing are boundless - from tracing how long it takes for a Java method to execute to testing an application's fault tolerance by forcing test exceptions to be thrown. Read more... View Online [Less]

Blog post added by Heiko W. Rupp I've written two posts that show you how to write an alert sender plugin. You'll find the posts here: Part 1 and Part 2 View Online

News Item added by Heiko W. Rupp I've written two posts that show you how to write an alert sender plugin. You'll find the posts here: Part 1 and Part 2 View Online

News Item added by Bryan Kearney The RHQ team is proud to announce the first developer build of the RHQ 1.4.0 platform. This initial developer release, 1.4.0-B1 ... [More] , provides an early look at the new features which we are planning for the 1.4.0. This release contains many of the plugins which had been available as part of the Jopr project, along with the plugins that were included in previous RHQ releases. The message provides details on the release notes, how to download the release, and how to get help and contribute to the project. As with any developer build, it is possible for this build to do bad things, like eat your cats. We would advise you to not use this build to upgrade existing RHQ or Jopr environments. Release Notes The complete release notes can be found at http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Release+Notes+1.4.0.B01. New Features in this release include: A new Server Side plugin container which allows server side features to be extended without changing core code. You can learn more about this feature at http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Server+Plugin+Development. Pluggable Alert Senders which allow uses to add their own notification senders to the RHQ Engine. Learn more about this at http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Design+-+pluggable+alert+senders. Several new Alert senders including IRC, Microblogging, and Mobicents Improved plugin generator and Annotations to help automate generation of plugin descriptors New ManualAddFacet for agent plugins that support manual adding of resources New Perspectives subsystem facilitating customization of regions of the RHQ UI. Learn about the design at http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Design-Perspectives. Changes from earlier releases include: "Content Source" and "Channel" as content types have been renamed to "Content Providers" and "Repositories", respectively. The SnmpTrapd plugin now uses manual add instead of autodiscovery Getting the Release You can access this release in the following ways: The Tarball binary is available from SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rhq/files/rhq/rhq-1.4.0.beta1/rhq-server-1.4.0.B01.zip/download Source code is in the in the git repostiory at Fedora Hosted: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/rhq/rhq.git?p=rhq/rhq.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/build-v1.4.0-B1. Instructions for building the code can be found at http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Building+RHQ. You can pull down the bits via maven from the JBoss repostory at http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/. Use version 1.4.0.B01 in your pom files. Getting Help If you would like to get in touch with the developers, you can find us at #rhq on freenode or on the mailing lists: Users List: https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/rhq-users Developers List: https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/rhq-devel Please use the lists above in favor of the RHQ and Jopr lists and forums on rhq-project.org and jboss.org. The old lists will work, but we will plan on decomissioning those older lists and forums in the future. In additon, as mentioned earlier, Bugs can be submitted in Bugzilla at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/browse.cgi?product=RHQ%20Project. All previous JIRAs have been moved over to Bugzilla. Contributing If you would like to contribute to the RHQ Project, please join Fedora at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new> Once you have done that you can start to submit patches on the dev mailing list. Thank you! View Online [Less]

Blog post added by Bryan Kearney The RHQ team is proud to announce the first developer build of the RHQ 1.4.0 platform. This initial developer release, 1.4.0-B1 ... [More] , provides an early look at the new features which we are planning for the 1.4.0. This release contains many of the plugins which had been available as part of the Jopr project, along with the plugins that were included in previous RHQ releases. The message provides details on the release notes, how to download the release, and how to get help and contribute to the project. As with any developer build, it is possible for this build to do bad things, like eat your cats. We would advise you to not use this build to upgrade existing RHQ or Jopr environments. Release Notes The complete release notes can be found at http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Release+Notes+1.4.0.B01. New Features in this release include: A new Server Side plugin container which allows server side features to be extended without changing core code. You can learn more about this feature at http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Server+Plugin+Development. Pluggable Alert Senders which allow uses to add their own notification senders to the RHQ Engine. Learn more about this at http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Design+-+pluggable+alert+senders. Several new Alert senders including IRC, Microblogging, and Mobicents Improved plugin generator and Annotations to help automate generation of plugin descriptors New ManualAddFacet for agent plugins that support manual adding of resources New Perspectives subsystem facilitating customization of regions of the RHQ UI. Learn about the design at http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Design-Perspectives. Changes from earlier releases include: "Content Source" and "Channel" as content types have been renamed to "Content Providers" and "Repositories", respectively. The SnmpTrapd plugin now uses manual add instead of autodiscovery Getting the Release You can access this release in the following ways: The Tarball binary is available from SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rhq/files/rhq/rhq-1.4.0.beta1/rhq-server-1.4.0.B01.zip/download Source code is in the in the git repostiory at Fedora Hosted: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/rhq/rhq.git?p=rhq/rhq.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/build-v1.4.0-B1. Instructions for building the code can be found at http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Building+RHQ. You can pull down the bits via maven from the JBoss repostory at http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/. Use version 1.4.0.B01 in your pom files. Getting Help If you would like to get in touch with the developers, you can find us at #rhq on freenode or on the mailing lists: Users List: https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/rhq-users Developers List: https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/rhq-devel Please use the lists above in favor of the RHQ and Jopr lists and forums on rhq-project.org and jboss.org. The old lists will work, but we will plan on decomissioning those older lists and forums in the future. In additon, as mentioned earlier, Bugs can be submitted in Bugzilla at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/browse.cgi?product=RHQ%20Project. All previous JIRAs have been moved over to Bugzilla. Contributing If you would like to contribute to the RHQ Project, please join Fedora at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new> Once you have done that you can start to submit patches on the dev mailing list. Thank you! View Online [Less]

News Item added by Heiko W. Rupp I've added a plugin to the tree that allows monitoring via scripts written in Ruby. More... View Online

Blog post added by Heiko W. Rupp I've added a plugin to the tree that allows monitoring via scripts written in Ruby. More... View Online

News Item added by John Mazzitelli RHQ is introducing a major new feature - server plugins. You now have access to the full breadth and depth of functionality that the ... [More] core RHQ Server code has, without having to modify core code. Using server plugins, you can plug in your own management code to the RHQ Server, allowing you to add to the existing core management feature set. The ability to innovate new features and capabilities is now much easier. Read more... View Online [Less]