Rulebases and Rules

A TIBCO Hawk agent monitors managed objects by processing rulebases. Each rulebase is a collection of rules that contain the management logic for determining how monitoring and management takes place.

Multiple rules in the same rulebase can monitor a particular application or system function. For example, an application rulebase can include one rule for issuing a medium-level alert if disk space or CPU usage exceeds certain thresholds. Another rule can issue a high-level alert and send a pager message to the system administrator if the application process terminates.

TIBCO Hawk includes prebuilt rulebases that monitor basic system level parameters. You can build additional rulebases with specialized rules. You can also selectively load the rulebases to an agent or group of agents on a temporary or permanent basis.