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Chapter 3 Hawk Console : Accessing TIBCO Hawk Microagent Methods

Accessing TIBCO Hawk Microagent Methods
You can access the microagent methods in the following ways:
The Microagents tab lists the microagents belonging to all the agents in the chosen domain. See Invoking Microagent Methods for more information.
TIBCO Hawk adds a tab Agent to the View Machine dialog for the machines in your domain. The View Machine tab is accessed by clicking Resource Management> Machines from the left-hand pane of TIBCO Administrator and then selecting a machine from the displayed list.
See Security Considerations for the permissions required to access the Agent tab.
Agent Tab
This dialog lists the available microagents and the rulebases defined for the agent.
Microagents
Displays the available microagents and for each microagent the following information is displayed:
Click on a microagent name for the list of associated microagent methods.
Rulebases
A list of the loaded rulebases is displayed.
Rulebases — The name of the rulebase. Click on this field to sort the rulebase names.
Click on a rulebase name to view details of the rulebase.
Hawk Microagent Methods
This dialog lists the available microagent methods.
Methods
The following fields are displayed for the microagent methods:
To invoke a microagent method click on the method name. See Invoking Microagent Methods for details.
Invoking Microagent Methods
This dialog displays information about the microagent method and provides fields you can specify input parameters when either invoking or subscribing to the method.
Method
Displays general information about the microagent method:
IMPACT_INFO returns information.
IMPACT_ACTION performs an action on the TIBCO Hawk system.
IMPACT_ACTION_INFO both returns information and performs an action based on it.
Invocation
Parameters — Displays the following elements for the parameters:
Description — Description of the argument.
Subscribe — Available for methods of type IMPACT_INFO and IMPACT_ACTION_INFO. You cannot subscribe to methods of type IMPACT_ACTION. Information is returned by the method either synchronously or asynchronously.
If the Subscribe checkbox is selected, the following fields are displayed along with the default values:
Even though a method may return data asynchronously, the result will not be updated until the page is refreshed.
 

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