Here is a start and stop script for hyperic on ubuntu. Please replace "user-other-than-root" as hyperic should not be started as root.

command to add into start up is...

 sudo update-rc.d hyperic defaults

#!/bin/sh

hyperic_start() {
  echo "Starting hyperic..."
  su "user-other-than-root" /home/hyperic/server-3.2.3/bin/hq-server.sh start
}

hyperic_stop() {
  echo "Stopping hyperic..."
  su "user-other-than-root" /home/hyperic/server-3.2.3/bin/hq-server.sh stop
}

hyperic_restart() {
  hyperic_stop
  sleep 1
  hyperic_start
}

case "$1" in
'start')
  hyperic_start
  ;;
'stop')
  hyperic_stop
  ;;
'restart')
  hyperic_restart
  ;;
*)
  hyperic_start
esac