Installing the Hyperic server

Hyperic is a monitoring tool that can be used to collect, store, display, and alert on metrics from Oracle SOA Suite 11g. It has the server and agent components, and in this recipe, we will look at installing the server.

Getting ready

You will need a machine on which to install the server, and the permissions to install the software on it. Since the overhead of running a Hyperic server is noticeable but not huge, we recommend running it on a dedicated machine, or at least a machine that is not hosting the critical parts of your infrastructure. The server needs to meet a few requirements, such as a static IP address for communication with the agents, a Java 1.5 or higher JVM, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X or Windows 2003 or a later operating system, a 1 GHz processor with at least 1 GB RAM (4 recommended), and at least 1 GB of free disk space. For more details on the requirements, see the documentation at https://support.hyperic.com/display/DOC/Installation+Requirements...