Struggling with Hyperic and WebLogic autodiscovery

This is an OLD post... this NEW post reports SUCCESS on the Hyperic-WebLogic front.

I have been fighting for hours to setup WebLogic management with Hyperic.
Following the instructions here http://support.hyperic.com/display/hypcomm/Configure+HQ+Agent+to+Monitor+WebLogic+Server

I thought I am a man with average intelligence, so it would take not more than 5 minutes to setup Hyperic to monitor one of the most popular application server. It turns out to be a great challenge. The HQ Agent simply refuses to discover a running instance of WebLogic 10, and instead discovers everything about himself, showing a certain degree of self-referential behavior.

Now, if I had to design a component who should autodiscover installed software, the LAST thing that would occur to me is asking the user to manually edit a agent.properties file and enter the installation directory of the product.

Because, I should be able to do a "find / -name something" and automatically discover which instances of a given software are installed on the server.

Excuse me if we are in 2010 so we assume that by now computers should be a bit more self-aware and independent from human intervention.

So, I try this:

java -jar /home/weblogic/hyperic/agent-4.2.0/bundles/agent-4.2.0-1260/pdk/lib/hq-product.jar -Dplugins.include=weblogic -Dadmin.username=weblogic -Dadmin.password=weblogic -m discover

and I get 0 servers discovered - yet the server is up and running.

Of course I have edited the agent.properties file to include
weblogic.installpath=/weblogic/bea10.3/wlserver_10.3/


I have the following values:


 You can now start your HQ agent by running this command:

  /home/weblogic/hyperic/agent-4.2.0/bin/hq-agent.sh start


 You can now start your HQ server by running this command:

  /home/weblogic/hyperic/server-4.2.0/bin/hq-server.sh start


 Once the HQ server reports that it has successfully started, you can log in
 to your HQ server at:

  http://CRM-INTG-DEV.acme.com:7080/
  username: hqadmin
  password: hqadmin