TIBCO HAWK

TIBCO HAWK
This Presentation gives a basic overview of
the
TIBCO Hawk
components.

monitoring

system

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TIBCO HAWK COMPONENTS

The TIBCO Hawk monitoring system

consists of the following main software
components.
TIBCO Hawk Agent
TIBCO Hawk Micro agent
TIBCO Hawk Display Program

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TIBCO Hawk Agent

A TIBCO Hawk agent is an autonomous process that resides on
each computer and monitors systems and applications on that
computer. Agents run independently of the TIBCO Hawk
Display.
Agents operate autonomously and are active whenever the
operating system they monitor is active. Agents use sets of
rules, called rulebases, to configure system management,
status, and automation tasks.
A TIBCO Hawk agent must be installed on each computer you
wish to monitor.
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TIBCO Hawk Microagent

A TIBCO Hawk Microagent (HMA) is a partner
process to the TIBCO Hawk agent and provides
the local agent with methods for monitoring
the host operating system.
Like the agent, a TIBCO Hawk Microagent is
generally installed on each computer you wish
to monitor.
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TIBCO Hawk Display

Program

The TIBCO Hawk Display program is used by

system administrators to view network health and
to create rulebases (sets of rules that automate
monitoring activities).

A TIBCO Hawk Display should be installed on any

computers you wish to use for monitoring the
network or for building rulebases.

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TIBCO Hawk System

Architecture

The TIBCO Hawk system is made up of two main

components: agents and Console Applications. Agents
perform the bulk of the monitoring duties, and Console
Applications act as user interfaces for status and
configuration (TIBCO Hawk Display), historical event
loggers (TIBCO Hawk Event Service), or bridges to
other management systems.
The right side of the diagram shows TIBCO Hawk
agents installed on machines to monitor local resources
and conditions. Default microagents are used to
monitor
objects
such
as
operating
system
performance, processes, log files, application metrics
or the status of TIBCO Rendezvous sessions.
The left side of the diagram shows how user
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applications
can be instrumented and monitored using

TIBCO Hawk System

Architecture

Building a Rule
Most monitoring tasks consist of periodic checking for some
problem condition. When the problem is detected, an alarm
is sent or corrective actions are taken. If the application goes
down, for example, capture some diagnostics and execute a
startup script. If too much disk space is consumed, delete
some temporary files. If duplicate processes are running,
terminate the most recent one. When you create a rule, you
specify this monitoring logic and package it for a TIBCO
Hawk agent. The agent can apply the rule again and again
without intervention. If a problem occurs, the agent can
solve it by taking corrective action, or notify you that the
problem requires attention, or both, depending on rule
design.
Rules consist of data sources, tests, and actions. Data
sources are microagent methods that periodically collect or
asynchronously return information to an agent. One or more
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tests
are
applied
to the resulting data set. When a particular
distributed to
another
third party.
test evaluates to true, one or more actions can be triggered.

AMI Protocol
The TIBCO Hawk Application Management Interface
(AMI) is a protocol programmers can use to expose
internal application methods to TIBCO Hawk. Such
applications are said to be instrumented with an AMI
interface. Applications instrumented with AMI are
represented by microagents and can be used as a data
source by TIBCO Hawk agents.

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Flow of Rules and Tests

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