Halcyon Monitoring Solutions


Halcyon Monitoring Solutions, Inc. was a software company who provided software products and services for monitoring infrastructure in the data center or the cloud. The company's software monitors the health, performance, and availability of heterogeneous hardware and software, including servers, storage, networking devices, operating systems and applications. Halcyon specializes in the technologies of the Oracle Corporation, running in mission-critical environments.
Halcyon Monitoring Solutions, Inc. provides software products and services for managing IT infrastructure in the data center. Halcyon's software monitors the health, performance, and availability of heterogeneous hardware and software, including physical and virtual servers, storage, networking devices, operating systems and applications. Halcyon specializes in Oracle/Sun technologies and is a leading provider of near real-time monitoring solutions for mission-critical environments.

Company history

Halcyon was founded in 1994 by software engineers at SystemWare Innovation Corporation. In 1996, Halcyon entered into an agreement with Sun Microsystems, now a subsidiary of Oracle, to co-develop Sun Enterprise SyMON 2.0, which was based on Halcyon's PrimeAlert technology. The product was renamed to Sun Management Center and was Sun's framework for monitoring and managing its hardware and the Solaris operating system including Solaris Zones/Containers, and Logical Domains.
Halcyon provided value add-on solutions for Sun Management Center to extend its capabilities to include monitoring for other OSes such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, and IBM AIX in addition to storage and networking devices and various 3rd party DBs and applications.
In addition, Halcyon also announced a light-weight standalone solution called "Neuron", which also supported all the add-ons created for Sun Management Center. The Neuron solution included common ITIL related components such as asset management, change management, configuration management, compliance, capacity planning, virtualization and public cloud management.