RHQ 3.0.0 (final) has been released (includes Jopr)

The RHQ and development team is proud to have released the final version 3.0.0 of the RHQ Systems management and monitoring software - this release contains the Jopr bits as it has been the case for all the recent community releases.

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 delivers a lot of new functionality as well as many bugfixes. Highlights are
• Server side plugins - extend the server functionality by writing plugins
• Pluggable alert notification senders - write your own alert notification senders to e.g. integrate with a trouble ticket system
• Provisioning - deploy software centrally to managed platforms
• Improved Search possibilities for the inventory
• Support for Authorization via LDAP groups
• Support for Oracle 11g

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 )

Dzone als has a very nice article summarizing the new release at http://www.dzone.com/links/expanded_alerting_and_configuration_in_rhq_3.html

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Heiko Rupp hwr(at)pilhuhn(dot)de
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