RHQ 3.0.0.B05 has been released - includes Jopr

The RHQ and Jopr development team is proud to have released version 3.0.0.B05 of the RHQ Systems management and monitoring software - this developer release contains the Jopr bits.

RHQ is a management platform for everything from the OS level load and network metrics through common databases to application servers and projects. The system includes support for monitoring and/or managing Apache httpd, Apache Tomcat, JBoss Application Server, PostgreSQL, and other popular open source projects. RHQ runs on PostgreSQL 8.2.4+ and Oracle as backend databases and is written in Java.

RHQ features a powerful agent plugin model that allows for the quick development of monitoring and management support for new projects and software. It supports inventory auto-discovery, rich monitoring and alerting, operational control, configuration management, content deployment, log tracking, and full history and auditing. It supports fine-grained security and rich group management.

This release, which is not intended for production, delivers a host of new functionality over the previous releases of the RHQ and Jopr management projects. It delivers pluggable alert senders and now also the possibility to execute resource actions (you could for
example reconfigure the load balancer on high load.

Most notable change for Postgres users is a fix for a bug that prevented the display of table statistics for Postgres 8.4+ servers,
as it was relying on pg_relation_size() using table names, which is no longer supported in 8.4+

You can learn more about RHQ (and download it) at http://rhq-project.org/ where you will also find the release notes
( http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Release+Notes+3.0.0.B05 )

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Heiko Rupp hwr(at)pilhuhn(dot)de
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