• a comprehensive view of the health and performance of your heterogeneous IT infrastructure for fault analysis, trending or planning
• highly configurable data frequency, granularity, retention and archiving assures matching of your reporting requirements
• emailing of reports simplifies administrator's day-to-day operational tasks
• report management capabilities including default graphs, report/graph templates and web-based interface facilitate ease of use

This release adds support for Sybase ASE 15, Sun Management Center 4.0, Solaris on the x86/x64 platforms, Solaris 10 zones, and PrimeAlert Neuron.


Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert EventGateway 1.2.0A
Toronto, Canada - Dec 11, 2007 - PrimeAlert EventGateway allows our customers to integrate traps (events) from any SNMP-compatible 3rd party hardware, device, or application into either Sun Management Center or Halcyon Neuron.

This release provides support for Sun Management Center 4.0.


Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert for Sun Application Server 2.1
BELLEVUE, WA - Dec 5, 2007 - PrimeAlert for Sun Application Server monitors the health, performance, and resource metrics for Sun Application Server containers, application instances, and related services. This module provides visibility to EJB pool and cache statistics, JDBC connection pool statistics, ORB thread pool statistics, Java Transaction Services statistics, HTTP server statistics, server processes and server logs.

This release includes support for SSL connections, JVM metrics, as well as for Sun Management Center 4.0, on both SPARC and x86/x64 platforms.


Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert for Veritas Cluster Server 2.1
BELLEVUE, WA - Dec 3, 2007 - PrimeAlert for Veritas Cluster Server monitors the reliability, and availability of Veritas clustered environments, as well as the health of the Veritas Cluster Server itself. This module allows for more continuous, uninterrupted access to IT and business applications and services.

This release provides support for Veritas Cluster 5.0, as well as for Sun Management Center 4.0, on both SPARC and x86/x64 platforms.


Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert for BEA WebLogic 2.0.0 A
BELLEVUE, WA - Nov 30, 2007 - PrimeAlert for BEA WebLogic monitors health, quality of service, and performance bottlenecks of BEA WebLogic. This module allows for more proactive, and predictive monitoring of the WebLogic application server for increased assurance of service availability.

This release provides support for Sun Management Center 4.0, on both SPARC and x86/x64 platforms.


Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert for VMware ESX Server 1.0
BELLEVUE, WA - Nov 27, 2007 - PrimeAlert for VMware ESX Server monitors the health, performance, and availability of the VMware ESX Server and each virtual machine (VM) running inside the ESX Server. This includes state changes, CPU, memory, disk and network utilization statistics for each guest OS.


Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert Adapter for Tivoli 2.2 and PrimeAlert Adapter for Frameworks 2.1
Toronto, Canada - Nov 15, 2007 - Halcyon PrimeAlert Adapters extend the capabilities of PrimeAlert EventAction by enabling the integration of Sun Management Center events with IBM Tivoli and other generic Enterprise Management Frameworks.

The new versions have been fully qualified with the latest version of PrimeAlert EventAction, Sun MC 4.0 on both SPARC and x86/x64, Tivoli TEC 3.9, and the support of Solaris 10 and Solaris zones. Both products have been further enhanced to enable the propagation of status changes in Tivoli or your Enterprise Management Framework back into Sun MC, and the Tivoli Adapter's event mapping has been enhanced to enable correlation of individual event states inside Tivoli.


Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert EventAction 2.4
BELLEVUE, WA - Nov 9, 2007 - Organizations using Sun Management Center depend on Halcyon's PrimeAlert EventAction to provide centralized event notification. This upgraded release provides support for Sun Management Center 4.0, on both SPARC and x86/x64 platforms.


Halcyon Offers Sun Management Center 4.0 Upgrade Service
Toronto, Canada - Oct 25, 2007 - With the upcoming major release of Sun Management Center 4.0 on its way, Halcyon is already well positioned to assist customers with the upgrade. As a Sun partner, Halcyon has access to early releases of the software for testing and training purposes. Halcyon experts have been deploying Sun Management Center technology in production environments since 1997.


Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert EventGateway 1.2
BELLEVUE, WA - Sept 28, 2007 - PrimeAlert EventGateway allows our customers to integrate traps (events) from any SNMP-compatible 3rd party hardware, device, or application into either Sun Management Center or Halcyon Neuron. This provides a powerful solution towards standardizing and centralizing the monitoring of your IT infrastructure.

This upgraded release greatly simplifies the import of SNMP MIBs. It intelligently and automatically generates monitoring rules, thereby allowing administrators to more efficiently, and effectively monitor any SNMP device.


Halcyon Launches Online Forums
BELLEVUE, WA - Aug 20, 2007 - The Halcyon Online Forums have officially launched and serve as a meeting and discussion area for Halcyon products, and Sun Management Center users alike. Pose questions, provide solutions, propose ideas, or simply share your experiences. Visit. Learn. Contribute.

Halcyon experts will also actively participate in answering questions, and will be posting tips and tricks of their own. Users are more than welcome to post their questions or comments online at http://forums.HalcyonInc.com.


Halcyon Offers Premium Support (24x7) Services
BELLEVUE, WA - Jul 13, 2007 - Halcyon is pleased to announce the addition of Premium Support (24x7) services to its technical support portfolio. "This offering benefits our Enterprise customers who require the highest levels of QoS, including monitoring visibility and reliability, for their mission critical business and IT services.," says Iain McKone, CTO of Halcyon Monitoring Solutions.

Customers who currently subscribe to the Standard Support service, can easily upgrade to the Premium (24x7) tier of support by contacting Halcyon, or their Halcyon Sales Representative.


Managing IBM AIX Systems Just Got Easier
BELLEVUE, WA - Jun 21, 2007 - Data centers running the IBM AIX operating system can now use Sun Management Center to manage their IBM environments. "Many of our customers have invested in Sun Management Center (Sun MC) to manage their Sun hardware footprint. Our release of an AIX monitoring solution is in direct response to an increasing need to seamlessly monitor heterogenous environments without sacrificing visibility, or availability. Now through Halcyon, customers have the added benefit of leveraging their existing Sun MC framework to monitor their AIX systems, as easily as their Sun, Linux or Windows systems." says Iain McKone, CTO of Halcyon Monitoring Solutions.

The Halcyon PrimeAlert Agent for AIX is a native agent that provides detailed system monitoring of AIX Server health and system utilization metrics, seamlessly integrated with Sun Management Center.


Manage Virtualized Environments with the Solaris Container Appliance
Toronto, Canada - May 30, 2007 - Virtualization is becoming more and more widespread in data centers and Sun Microsystems is no stranger in this area. Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System is an enabling technology allowing customers to realize capital budget savings via virtualization and consolidation. Halcyon has teamed up with Sun to offer customers a quick and easy way to get started with Solaris 10 Zones and Containers with the Solaris 10 Container Appliance. This offering includes all the tools you need to effectively monitor and manage your virtualized Solaris environment.


Halcyon Upgraded Releases for the 3rd Quarter
TORONTO, Canada - Mar 16, 2007 - Halcyon continues to expand on its end-to-end management story by offering several product upgrades in its 3rd quarter that add many new features including support for the Solaris 10 operating system on both the SPARC and x86/x64 platforms. (Read more)


Halcyon Announces Support for 2007 Daylight Savings Time
TORONTO, Canada - Jan 24, 2007 - Halcyon is now providing support for the 2007 Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes. To learn more about how the DST changes may affect Halcyon customers and how to update your systems for the upcoming time changes please click here.


Beta now available for PrimeAlert for Microsoft IIS
TORONTO, Canada - Jan 5, 2007 - Halcyon annouces the beta release of PrimeAlert for Microsoft IIS is now available. The solution allows administrators to monitor the health and resources of the Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server including I/O, connections, user defined HTTP requests and user bandwidth.

Customers interested in more information or evaluating and testing the beta release of PrimeAlert for Microsoft IIS should contact Halcyon at beta@HalcyonInc.com


Halcyon joins Red Hat ISV Partner Program
TORONTO, Canada - Oct 17, 2006 - Halcyon continues to expands its technology relationships by joining the Red Hat Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner Program. The partnership allows Halcyon to optimize its development efforts by gaining access to Red Hat tools, resources and early releases. Moving forward, Halcyon will continue to work closely with Red Hat to ensure Halcyon products are compatible with future Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.


Halcyon joins VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program
TORONTO, Canada - Aug 28, 2006 - Halcyon announces it has become a VMware Technology Alliance Partner. VMware is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. The partnership will enable Halcyon to work closely with VMware to develop monitoring solutions for VMware virutualized environments including ESX Server.

"Halcyon is excited to partner with VMware under the Technology Alliance program. This partnership is a natural extension to our existing solutions; the heterogeneous enterprise is now more easily enabled and isolated through virtualized environments. Our customers are investing in virtualization and consolidation solutions because the benefits are many-fold and easily envisioned. However, as the solutions driving this enablement continue to mature and become more widely adopted, the enterprise needs to ensure high availability and reliability will only grow. Halcyon will continue to address this need in the infrastructure management space by continuing to provide high monitoring visibility, accuracy, timeliness, and flexible integration solutions.", says Iain McKone CTO at Halcyon Monitoring Solutions.


Halcyon releases Historical Reporting for Microsoft Windows Systems
TORONTO, Canada - Jul 25, 2006 - Halcyon announces the updated release of PrimeAlert Reporter 2.1.0. The new version now includes historical reporting for Microsoft Windows systems as well as a new command line interface for viewing and exporting historical data.

PrimeAlert Reporter maintains historical data of user selected monitored objects and summarizes it in web-based graphical reports. For more information or to download, please visit the PrimeAlert Reporter brochure page.


System Monitoring for Solaris, Linux, and Windows in 5 Minutes or Less
TORONTO, Canada - Mar 31, 2006 - Halcyon's release of Neuron 2.0 allows organizations to quickly gage the health and performance of their business critical applications and the systems they run on without the need of a framework. (Full Story)

The installation takes no more than 5 minutes and supports the Sun Solaris, Linux, HP Tru64, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Neuron can be downloaded for a FREE 30 day evaluation.


Halcyon Releases Sun Java System Directory Server Monitoring for x64/x86 Environments.
TORONTO, Canada - Feb 20, 2006 - Halcyon's new release of the PrimeAlert for Sun Directory Server solution now allows customers to monitor their Sun LDAP-based directory servers running on Sun Fire x64/x86 systems, in addition to their SPARC environment.

The solution can easily be deployed on Halcyon's stand-alone Neuron Agent or integrated with Sun Management Center to pro-actively gather critical health, availability and performance metrics of the Directory Server. (Full story)


Halcyon Releases BMC PATROL Enterprise Manager Integration for Sun Management Center.
TORONTO, Canada - Feb 03, 2006 - Halcyon's release of the PrimeAlert Adapter for BMC PATROL Enterprise Manager now allows Sun Management Center events to be forwarded to PATROL for a single enterprise console view.

This adds to Halcyon's growing list of adapters for Sun Management Center. Other popular adapters currently available include:
PrimeAlert Adapter for IBM Tivoli
PrimeAlert Adapter for HP OpenView
PrimeAlert Adapter for Netcool
PrimeAlert Adapter for Frameworks

Other adapters planned for release include Managed Objects Formula, and CA Unicenter.


Halcyon Expands its Offerings for Managing Solaris 10 and Sun Fire x64/x86 Environments.
TORONTO, Canada - Jan 05, 2006 - Customers interested in taking advantage of the benefits of the Solaris 10™ Operating System and the AMD Opteron™ processor-based server platforms from Sun can now be assured of the ease of integration and monitoring of these systems using solutions from Halcyon Monitoring Solutions (Halcyon) integrated with Sun Management Center (Sun MC).

In addition to providing bi-directional integrations into popular frameworks, Halcyon also provides solutions for application monitoring, such as Sun Java™ Enterprise System (JES), Oracle, BEA, and Veritas. This is in addition to the hardware and OS monitoring that is provided in Sun Management Center. All solutions are fully compatible with Solaris 10, including features like Solaris Zones.


Halcyon Enters OEM Agreement With xkoto Inc.
TORONTO, Canada - Aug 24, 2005 - Halcyon will begin shipping xkoto Inc.'s GRIDIRON™ 1808 Database Load Balancer in Q4 of calendar year 2005. With GRIDIRON, Halcyon will be able to expand its database management offerings which currently include products for Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft. For more information please visit http://www.xkoto.com.