Halcyon Releases Systems Management Data Integration Solution
Toronto, Canada - February 26, 2010 -
Enterprises using multiple systems management tools need centralized visibility to heterogeneous data to simplify the complexity in the data
center. Halcyon's Neuron Integration solution is a highly scalable, lightweight framework that seamlessly integrates asset, configuration, event, and performance data between help desk tools and system s management software.
This solution includes data integration adapters enabling instant out-of-the-box setup for popular tools including IBM Tivoli, HP Openview,
Sun Management Center and Ops Center. For additional features, benefits, screenshots, and to download the solution please click here.
Halcyon Provides Audit Services for Sun Ops Center
Toronto, Canada - January 5, 2010 -
Halcyon's Audit Service for Sun Ops Center ensures customers have optimally architected, deployed, and configured Ops Center to realize the maximum benefit. This service is based upon Halcyon's best practices, ITIL methodology, and extensive experience architecting, designing, and customizing innovative solutions for Ops Center environments.
For more information, please contact Halcyon at info@HalcyonInc.com.
Halcyon Releases Centralized Network Monitoring for SNMP Devices & Applications
BELLEVUE, WA - November 16, 2009 -
Halcyon is pleased to announce the availability of the Neuron Network Monitor, a highly scalable, lightweight, centralized event management framework for monitoring SNMP compatible hardware devices and applications. This solution enables administrators to quickly load MIB text files to intelligently and automatically generate rules to efficiently and effectively monitor the health of their datacenter to ensure availability of critical business services.
Neuron Network Monitor customers can also leverage Halcyon's Neuron Event Manager to forward and integrate captured events with 3rd party Enterprise Management Frameworks.
Sun Management Center Training in Toronto, Canada
Toronto, Canada - September 30, 2009 -
Halcyon will be delivering its next training course for Sun Management Center 4.0 in Toronto, Canada on November 24 - 27, 2009. Major topics include installation and deployment, container manager, performance reporting and application monitoring via modules.
Developed and taught by Halcyon, the co-developer of Sun Management Center technology, this course has been delivered to Sun Professional Services as well as Fortune 500 companies worldwide. To register contact Halcyon at 1-877-932-4643 or email us at info@HalcyonInc.com.
Halcyon Announces VAR Status for Sun xVM Ops Center
Toronto, Canada - July 09, 2009 -
Halcyon is proud to announce their capability to provide a comprehensive range of xVM Ops Center solutions and services, as a Sun Value Added Reseller (VAR). This enables Halcyon to better serve enterprise customer needs through the resale of xVM Ops Center software, supported by full professional services for the delivery of onsite POCs, solution design, deployments, and custom configurations.
Halcyon further enhances and extends xVM Ops Center through off-the-shelf monitoring, and enterprise integration solutions, which fall under the Neuron brand.
Halcyon Achieves Certification in the Sun xVM Ops Center Specialty Program
Toronto, Canada - June 26, 2009 -
Halcyon is pleased to announce their accreditation as a partner in the Sun xVM Ops Center specialty program. Accreditation under this program places a seal of quality on the installation, configuration, and integration of xVM Ops Center solutions through Halcyon professional services.
"Halcyon is enthusiastic about the visible value that xVM Ops Center brings to customers, establishing greater consistency, efficiency, and manageability of the physical and virtual datacenter", says Iain McKone, CTO of Halcyon. "As a longtime Sun Principal Partner specializing in infrastructure management, Halcyon brings a unique mix of resources, skillsets, and experience to the xVM Ops Center Specialty Partner community. Combining xVM Ops Center deployment services with our existing product solutions will allow us to optimally assist our customers as they embark on their virtualization initiatives."
Halcyon is currently offering 2, 5, and 10 day pre-packaged professional services for Sun xVM Ops Center.
Monitoring for Solaris, AIX, Linux, and Windows in 5 Minutes or Less with Neuron Agent 3.0
Toronto, Canada - May 15, 2009 -
Halcyon's release of Neuron Agent 3.0 enables organizations to quickly gage the health, performance, and availability of critical business services and the underlying infrastructure without the need of a framework. Neuron Agent is a lightweight intelligent stand-alone agent with a web GUI that annunciates events through email in addition to integrating with existing ticketing and event management frameworks such as BMC Remedy, IBM Tivoli TEC, and Nagios.
The installation takes no more than 5 minutes and provides out-of-the-box hardware, OS, and performance reporting for the Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Linux, HP Tru64, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Read the full story here.
Halcyon Monitoring Solutions and SWI Form Strategic Partnership
Toronto, Canada - May 11, 2009 -
Halcyon and Systemware Innovation (SWI) are proud to announce the formation of a strategic partnership. Under this agreement, SWI becomes an authorized reseller of Halcyon's infrastructure management solutions. The partnership also extends Halcyon's professional services capability by providing access to SWI's large team of skilled consultants.
Read the full press release here.
Halcyon Enables Deep Hardware Monitoring for Sun xVM Ops Center Environments
Toronto, Canada - Apr 06, 2009 -
Enterprises with Sun hardware will be pleased to learn Halcyon has announced advanced in-depth server hardware monitoring for datacenters utilizing Sun xVM Ops Center. Halcyon's Neuron Hardware Monitoring for Sun xVM Ops Center provides centralized visibility into the health and status of all Sun servers, from the desktop to the M-Series class of machines. This solution proactively detects hardware component failures on Sun servers and instantly presents the details of these events in Sun xVM Ops Center.
Neuron Hardware Monitoring for Sun xVM Ops Center is the newest edition to the Neuron Suite of products and is bundled with Neuron Integration for Sun xVM Ops Center. This solution leverages Sun's most advanced server hardware monitoring tool, Sun Management Center.
Halcyon Neuron Integration Featured on Sun's xVM Blog
Toronto, Canada - Apr 03, 2009 -
Owen Allen discusses Halcyon's Neuron Integration and xVM Ops Center in Sun Microsystems' xVM blog. The blog also features screenshots of Halcyon's Neuron Integration for Sun xVM Ops Center in addition to many other blog entries related to Sun xVM.
Halcyon Announces Neuron Integration for Sun xVM Ops Center
BELLEVUE, WA - Mar 04, 2009 -
Halcyon Monitoring Solutions, Inc, a leader in Infrastructure Management solutions, today announced availability of Neuron Integration for Sun xVM Ops Center. Using Neuron, IT organizations can seamlessly integrate critical health events and performance data from locally managed systems with Network Operations Center (NOC) frameworks such as IBM Tivoli or BMC Enterprise Manager reducing system downtime through early detection of resource bottlenecks and impending hardware failures.
Read the full press release here.
Halcyon Featured in InfoWorld Webcast
BELLEVUE, WA - Feb 23, 2009 -
Sun Microsystems and Halcyon present the solutions available, which assist customers to realize datacenter efficiency, within a virtual landscape. Join Mike Barrett, Sun Virtualization Technologist and our very own Iain McKone, CTO in this 30 minute on-demand InfoWorld webinar that describes how to Increase Data Center Visibility with Sun xVM Ops Center and Halcyon.
Watch the webcast here. (Registration required).
Halcyon Announces Unlimited Monitoring of GlassFish, JVM and MySQL
Toronto, Canada - Nov 17, 2008 - Halcyon's GlassFish Monitoring solution provides unlimited monitoring of GlassFish, its Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and MySQL for only $4000.00 a year to customer environments with up to 1000 employees.
"We are excited to see customers and the community alike build innovative solutions that leverage the GlassFish container, and expect the demand for these applications to scale and continue to challenge the limits of performance, administration, and manageability. In alignment with and support of GlassFish, Halcyon provides solutions to wholistically monitor, notify, and report on the health and performance of customer applications, the GlassFish container, and the underlying platform for maximum visibility, availability, and growth." says Iain McKone, CTO at Halcyon Monitoring Solutions.
This solution will also provide pre-configured and customizable alarm thresholds, configurable email/pager/mobile notification, and integration to 3rd party Enterprise Management Frameworks.
Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert EventAction 2.5
Toronto, Canada - Nov 14, 2008 -
Organizations using Sun Management Center depend on Halcyon's PrimeAlert EventAction to take automated corrective actions while also providing centralized event visibility, filtering, email/pager/mobile notification and integration with Enterprise Managers when combined with PrimeAlert Adapters.
This upgraded release provides enhanced logging and various bug fixes. Please refer to the Release Notes for details.
Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert PlusPack 2.2
Toronto, Canada - Nov 3, 2008 - The PrimeAlert PlusPack is a bundle of several essential modules that allow organizations to monitor the health, availability and performance of their operating system in addition to log files, processes, directories, and network metrics.
Halcyon highly recommends using the automated corrective actions feature to automatically restart problematic processes, and the dynamic file scanning and regular expression matching capabilities to track log files.
This release adds support for Linux, Solaris x86/x64 platforms and Solaris zones.
Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert Enterprise Reporter
BELLEVUE, WA - August 5, 2008 -
PrimeAlert Enterprise Reporter provides centralized reporting and graphing of
enterprise health, performance and utilization. It intelligently aggregates all collected metrics from Sun MC and
Halcyon PrimeAlert agents and modules. Some of the key features include:
- 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 new product supports Solaris on SPARC & x86/x64 platforms, Sun Management Center 3.5-4.0.
Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert for Java Virtual Machines (JVM)
BELLEVUE, WA - April 10, 2008 -
PrimeAlert for Java Virtual Machines (JVM) monitors key JVM metrics,
such as memory usage (heap/non-heap, memory pools), garbage collection and threading, to ensure the health
and performance of JVM's are optimal. The module also watches the Java process to ensure continuous operation.
Furthermore, it provides the ability to remotely monitor JVM's.
This new product supports Solaris on SPARC & x86/x64 platforms, Sun Management Center 3.5-4.0, and
PrimeAlert Neuron.
Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert for Sun Application Server
Toronto, Canada - April 8, 2008 -
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. It also provides key metrics on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
that Sun Application Server runs on.
This release adds enhancements to the module such as total HTTP requests and support for Sun Application Server 9.x and
PrimeAlert Neuron.
Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert for Sun Web Server
Toronto, Canada - April 7, 2008 -
PrimeAlert for Sun Web Server gives insight to the performance and health
of Sun Web Server by providing metrics such as traffic, queue and cache statistics. It also monitors
key processes and system resource utilization, as well as scanning log files for exception messages.
This release adds support for Sun Web Server 7.0 and Sun Management Center 4.0.
Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert for Oracle 2.1.0 B &
PrimeAlert for Oracle RAC 1.1.0 A
BELLEVUE, WA - March 11, 2008 -
PrimeAlert for Oracle monitors the health and performance
of Oracle database servers. The module monitors availability, database resources such as tablespaces,
locks and connections, as well as Oracle processes and logs.
PrimeAlert for Oracle RAC extends the
monitoring capabilities to monitor Oracle RAC servers.
This release adds support for Sun Management Center 4.0 and Solaris 10 zones.
Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert for Brocade Switch 1.1.0
BELLEVUE, WA - March 10, 2008 -
PrimeAlert for Brocade Switch monitors the health of Brocade switches.
The module monitors the status of the overall system including sensors, interswitch links, ports, port traffic,
port errors, loop initializations, the switch events table and the end devices.
This release adds support for Sun Management Center 4.0, Solaris on the x86/x64 platforms and Solaris 10 zones.
Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert for Hitachi Storage 1.1.0
BELLEVUE, WA - March 7, 2008 -
PrimeAlert for Hitachi Storage provides fault and performance metrics for
Hitachi's Freedom Storage(TM) and the Lightning 9900(TM) Series storage solutions. PrimeAlert for Hitachi
Storage allows storage administrators to be able to concentrate on core tasks and
competencies by proactively monitoring key hardware components such as fans, power
supplies, processors, etc. and translating cryptic SNMP traps to readable system
information messages. Potential problems are easily identified and can be corrected
before they become critical issues. PrimeAlert for Hitachi Storage allows companies
and IT departments to confidently deliver and meet service level agreements for
critical storage resources.
This release adds support for Sun Management Center 4.0, Solaris on the x86/x64 platforms and Solaris 10 zones.
Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert for DB2 1.0.0
Toronto, Canada - Jan 24, 2008 -
With the release of PrimeAlert for DB2, Halcyon continues to expand its portfolio to meet the needs
of its customers. This module monitors the health and statistics of a DB2 database. Database resources such as
processes, connections, bufferpools, locks, memory and database activities are all monitored.
This new product supports DB2 8.x-9.x, Solaris on SPARC & x86/x64 platforms, Sun Management Center 3.5-4.0, and
PrimeAlert Neuron.
Halcyon Releases PrimeAlert Reporter 2.2.0
Toronto, Canada - Jan 18, 2008 -
PrimeAlert Reporter allows Sun Management Center administrators to collect and view historical data for any
monitored object. A very feature rich web interface (WebPortal) is provided to manage and view graphs in addition to a
simple command line utility that can be used to run batch jobs for exporting data for use in capacity planning tools.
This release provides support for Sun Management Center 4.0.
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