Auto-Discover your software and hardware.
HQ's inventory model will always accurately reflect all the aspects of the various machines, software, and services in your infrastructure. This allows you to change and expand your IT environment without concerns about having to extend or adapt your management solution.

HQ's auto-discovery feature detects every aspect of your hardware and software infrastructure -- from accurate memory, CPU, Disk and network devices all the way to services deployed or configured on all your installed software.

Control every resource in your inventory
HQ's control engine allows you to perform any number of control actions that are supported by the managed product. Control actions vary by product, and can be performed on an on demand, grouped, or scheduled basis.

Control capabilities are also restricted by HQ's role based access control mechanism, allowing you to decide who gets to perform control actions on which resources in your infrastructure.

Monitor every resource in your inventory
HQ's powerful monitoring engine collects metrics from every aspect of your inventory. The metrics are based on the ones exposed by the products themselves allowing you to safely deploy HQ to monitor production environments without need for invasive instrumentation.

Metrics are also continously baselined, giving HQ and you the ability to quickly identify problems before they become more severe. HQ's powerful monitoring UI allows you to compare metrics for different resources across a common timeline in multiple, user configured views. These views give you a deeper understanding of the relationships between the different resources in your infrastructure and help you quickly identify the root cause of problems.

Integrated alerting provides notification and self correcting action
HQ's integrated alerting engine allows you to define anything from simple to elaborate conditions which should be treated as alerts. Alerting is done in a product independent way, allowing you to have the same degree of notification capabilities for everything from OS level faults to service level response times.

HQ's alerting engine is also fully integrated into the HQ server such that alerts can both respond to control actions performed through HQ, as well as perform control actions in response to other conditions. This capability allows you to define policies for correcting known problems without requiring intervention and with the knowledge that they will be logged and tracked in HQ's repository.

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