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Appendix B Using TIBCO Hawk Methods : Introduction

Introduction
In a TIBCO Hawk environment, agents on each local computer perform the monitoring work. A TIBCO Hawk agent is an autonomous process that uses microagents to monitor local applications and systems activity. Microagents represent managed objects such as operating system subsystems, agent components, log files, event logs, and applications. Each microagent exposes a set of methods to the agent for collecting information and taking actions. This design allows for separation between management data and management rules or policies.
TIBCO Hawk Display is an application for viewing and managing TIBCO Hawk objects on your network. The Display application is not a centralized console, but a local window into network activity. In TIBCO Hawk Display, an administrator can discover TIBCO Hawk agents that are running, and communicate with microagents on each agent machine. Using application menus and dialogs, administrators can also build and distribute rulebases, which control the monitoring behavior of TIBCO Hawk agents.
For detailed information about TIBCO Hawk product components, see the TIBCO Hawk Administrator’s Guide.

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