Monitoring Applications The Proxy IT framework uses TIBCO Hawk Agents and TIBCO Hawk Microagents (HMA) to monitor and manage the TIBCO Adapter processes launched by the Adapter IT components. A TIBCO Hawk Agent is a process that monitors activity on a particular machine using microagents which represent managed objects such as operating system subsystems, agent components, log files, event logs or applications which have embedded microagent interfaces. Each microagent exposes a set of methods to the agent that the agent uses to collect information and take action. TIBCO Hawk is part of TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA).