Recent News

Project RHQ, which is the foundation for Jopr will soon move all bug tracking from the old JIRA system at jira.rhq-project.org over to a bugzilla instance at Red Hat. Read more...

In the past it was often confusing to users that we have two source repositories for RHQ and Jopr. We have recently changed this. Read more...

I have committed support for sending alert notifications via Twitter into an experimental branch of Jopr and RHQ.

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As you surely know, I am also active on Twitter as pilhuhn. So I have sat down and started to write a TwitStat plugin for Jopr to show the possibilities of the Jopr platform, that it is not exclusively about managing JBoss products (as some people say) and to show more example code. Read more...

Jopr has recently introduced an experimental feature that exposes your managed environment as a WebDAV repository. This means that you can use any WebDAV client to browse your managed environment as if it were a simple file system and peek into your resource hierarchy, obtaining information such as a resource's availability, its configuration and measurement trait data.

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Jopr now supports an embedded database option during installation (using H2 under the covers). This option, aside from preparing the embedded database, also configures an embedded agent running inside the same VM. This means it takes only a few keystrokes now to install an entire Jopr system, end-to-end.

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I am just working on a plugin when I have some spare cycles (I will tell you which one in a few days To test the plugin I am using the Standalone Container where I have deployed my plugin, the JMX and the platform plugin. Read more...

Jopr and Embedded Jopr. Aside from each having Jopr in the name, how are they related? How are they different? Why do these two projects exist? I'll try to explain that here....

When writing a Plugin for RHQ, JBoss ON and Jopr (or for completeness: Embedded Jopr, you will run into Generic types for ResourceComponent and ResourceDiscoveryComponent. And I am sure you have often wondered what the T in ResourceComponent<T> should be. Read more...

There are numerous advantages for having an abstract management platform that can handle different management facets for many different kinds of managed resources. One of these advantages is the ability to correlate and process information across all the different facets. Read more...

In just an hour or two, I added a feature allowing you to enable log tracking for the agent itself. If you enable this feature, you can view the agent's log messages directly in the Jopr UI. This enables you to see what's going on inside an agent, and you can corrolate those log events with other types of changes happening to your agent (e.g. configuration changes, monitoring data, alerts, etc).

Let me discuss some of the nice things this allows you to do. Read more...

Yesterday I was talking at Rheinjug in Düsseldorf about RHQ, Jopr and JBoss ON.
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Sometimes it is necessary in RHQ-plugins to load resources when the plugin is loaded and more important to unload those when the plugin is unloaded from the plugin container.

Mazz has recently added the PluginOverseer interface for exactly this purpose. Read more...

Are you running Jopr, RHQ or JBoss ON 2 with Oracle and see the following warnings in the servers logfiles:

... XAException.XAER_RMERR ...

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Earlier this week, the Jopr/RHQ team put out a new beta of our upcoming 2.2 release with some substantial new features. We have available a quick visual tour of the upcoming changes. The release includes bug fixes, performance enhancements, many new features and UI improvements.

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