RHQ 4.0 CR
This is the release candidate (=CR) of the upcoming RHQ 4.0 release. It is meant for interested parties to have a look at the new GUI, to see the GWT technology in action, and to test so that we can get feedback before the final release.
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- If you previously used an earlier RHQ 4.0 developer preview release, you must clear your browser's cache prior to using the RHQ 4.0 CR GUI! For example, in Firefox, press Ctrl-Shift-Del and then choose to clear everything from the cache.
- While this is a CR release, it is labeled as -SNAPSHOT and will unzip into a folder named -SNAPSHOT.
- You can not auto-upgrade an agent from the previous beta1 release to this CR.
- It may be possible to upgrade from this CR to the final release, but you must not count on it.
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New Features (since RHQ 3.0)
- new SmartGWT-based GUI
- 100% AJAX Web 2.0
- internationalized (CR only includes English localized messages)
- multiple customized dashboards can be saved
- enhanced scheduling for operations, including support for cron expressions
- "message center" provides a history of GUI messages from the current session
- configuration editor now supports editing lists of simple properties
- support for Postgres 9.0
- support for deleting agent plugins
- support for executing an RHQ CLI script when an alert fires (for more info, see this blog)
- improved authorization for content repositories - public/private repos, repo owners, and MANAGE_REPOSITORIES privileges
Known Issues
- User documentation on the RHQ wiki has not been updated yet - it still documents RHQ 3.0.
- Some error messages will be masked and instead print "InvocationTargetException: please see server log for more details", but the server log may not necessarily provide more details.
- The installer shows some non-replaced {} properties.
- Some properties are editable when viewing a configuration in read-only mode.
- Clicking the Reset button in the user or role edit view results in an error.
For a list of issues that still exist in the very latest RHQ 4.0 code, see Bugzilla.
Bug reporting
Please report all bugs you find in Bugzilla. If you find a bug that has already been recorded in the above list, please leave a comment on the bug, especially if this needs special steps to reproduce.
Download
You can download the release here.