In early 2005, JBoss and Hyperic entered a collaborative OEM agreement, enabling the JBoss team to build JBoss Operations Network from the then 2.x Hyperic product line. During that time there has been a lot of change, Hyperic moved into a complete open source business model, JBoss was acquired by Red Hat and both companies have seen great growth. Both companies have agreed that it would be better to work collaboratively in the open, ensuring that there was a strong platform by which we can build on top of.
Based on the popular web infrastructure management software provided by Hyperic, RHQ will support a similar architecture as Hyperic HQ.
The new platform called RHQ will provide the common services that all management products need including audit, reporting, fine grained security, inventory, common API handling, a common agent infrastructure and plug-in model.
This platform could be used as the basis for building management capabilities into any product offering, allowing the development teams for those products to focus on building the core practice of manageability. Therefore the RHQ technology is not a management solution, but a core technology for management solutions which will be incorporated into future editions of Red Hat products such as JBoss Operations Network and Red Hat Network, as well as Hyperic HQ.
This collaboration will ensure there are multiple products which learn how to share inventory, provide consistent compliance and audit, offer a common command line interaction, and just as important share plugins. To achieve this level of collaboration we have established a board of advisors to provide ongoing support for this project and each organization has committed technical resources to its success.
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