Halcyon Monitoring Solutions

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Halcyon Monitoring Solutions, Inc.
Type Private
Founded 1994
Headquarters Bellevue, WA, USA (Sales and Engineering in Toronto, Canada)
Industry Enterprise Software
IT Services
Products See Article
Website www.HalcyonInc.com

Halcyon Monitoring Solutions, Inc. is a software company which offers products for monitoring the health, performance, and availability of mission critical systems and applications.

Halcyon currently offers 2 product lines, namely PrimeAlert and Neuron:

  • Halcyon PrimeAlert products extend Sun Management Center's monitoring capabilities to include 3rd party hardware, databases, applications, non-Sun platforms and integrations to popular enterprise management frameworks.
  • Halcyon Neuron is a lightweight stand-alone SNMP agent that can run autonomously to monitor and report on critical system and application conditions in near real-time.

[edit] Company History

  • Founded in 1994 by software engineers at Systemware Innovation Corporation (SWI). The creation of Halcyon resulted from the real-world experience of SWI engineers, who recognized the need for proactive systems monitoring to ensure reliability and availability of mission critical applications and systems.
  • In 1996, Halcyon entered into an agreement with Sun Microsystems to co-develop Sun Enterprise SyMON 2.0 which is based on Halcyon's PrimeAlert technology. The product was later renamed to Sun Management Center and is Sun's framework for monitoring and managing Sun hardware and the Solaris OS including Zones and Containers.
  • In 2005, as a result of research and development work, Halcyon founded xkoto Inc. whose GRIDSCALE Database Load Balancer uses patent pending technology to enable commercial off-the-shelf databases to run on a cluster of commodity systems with the same or better reliability and performance as much more expensive proprietary systems.
  • Today, Halcyon continues to provide solutions to improve Data Center visibility, availability, and reliability for clients world-wide with a particular focus on Sun Microsystems environments.

[edit] Products

Halcyon's offers the following 3rd party monitoring and performance reporting solutions:

Operating Systems Monitoring
Halcyon provides monitoring for various Operating Systems such as Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, Linux, and IBM AIX. This includes monitoring of critical OS metrics such as CPU, Memory, Swap, Disk as well as applications running on the system.

Application Monitoring
The applications are usually the most critical components of a business' infrastructure. Halcyon provides monitoring for these applications, including BEA Weblogic, Veritas, Apache, and Sun JES.

Database Monitoring
In addition to applications, the health and performance of databases is also monitored, including Oracle, SQL Server, and Sybase.

Hardware Monitoring
Halcyon also provides monitoring of hardware such as Brocade Switches, Cisco Routers, HDS, and NetApp.

Enterprise Manager Integrations
Most large organization are already using some Enterprise Management Framework such as IBM Tivoli, HP Openview or BMC Patrol. Halcyon also provides integrations into these frameworks.

A full list of products is available at: www.HalcyonInc.com/downloads

[edit] Alliances