Enabling the TIBCO Hawk Microagent

To use Hawk methods, enable the TIBCO Hawk microagent in the TIBCO BusinessEvents engine property file. You can also define the transport mode for Hawk microagent in the property file. Alternatively, you can set properties in CDD to customize TIBCO Hawk microagent as per cluster, processing unit, and agent.

    Procedure Open the be-engine.tra property file located at BE_HOME/bin/ or the ptoject CDD for editing and add or set the following properties:
    • To enable Hawk microagent, set the property to true: 
      Hawk.Enabled = true
    • Set the property value to the installation location of TIBCO Hawk: 
      tibco.env.HAWK_HOME
    • If you are using non-default transport parameters for TIBCO Hawk, add the following properties for setting Hawk service, network, and daemon parameters: 
      Hawk.Service=9999
Hawk.Network=
Hawk.Daemon=
    • To configure the Hawk transport, set the property to either tibrv or tibtcp transport mode. 
      be.hawk.hma.transport

      The default value is tibrv.

      If you use tibtcp mode then set the following additional properties applicable to tibtcp transport mode.

      PropertyDescription
      be.hawk.hma.tcp.self.url

      Set to the IP address of an instance that is running the TIBCO BusinessEvents engine and a port number that is available:

      <host_IP>:<port>

      For example: localhost:2556

      Note: If multiple TIBCO BusinessEvents engines are running on the same machine then use separate ports for each engine. For example, if Cache1 binds to port 2571 then Inference1 can use port 2572.
      be.hawk.hma.tcp.agent.ami.url

      Set to the Hawk Agent IP and AMI session port:

      <hawk_agent_IP>:<AMI_session_port>

      For example: localhost:2571

      be.hawk.hma.tcp.key.storeKey store file
      be.hawk.hma.tcp.trust.storeTrust store file
      be.hawk.hma.tcp.key.store.passwordPassword for the key store file
      be.hawk.hma.tcp.key.passwordEncrypted key password
      be.hawk.hma.tcp.trust.store.password

      Password for the trust store file

      Note: You can use the tibhawkpassword utility at <HAWK_HOME>/bin to encrypt the password. Use the password without double quotes. For more information, see TIBCO Hawk Installation, Configuration and Administration Guide.
      be.hawk.hma.tcp.ssl.protocol

      Protocol for a secure connection

      The default value is TLSv1.2.

      be.hawk.hma.tcp.enabled.algorithms

      Algorithms to be used for the security protocol

      The default value is TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA.

Note: To enable TIBCO Hawk Console, set the following property to true in the domain_name.tra file located at TIBCO_Admin_HOME/domain/domain_name/bin/tibcoadmin/:

hawk.console.enabled=true