Agent Groups

Agent groups are sets of TIBCO Hawk agents on the same network with similar rulebase needs. Groups are more efficient when mapping rulebases to agents in a rulebase map. Instead of assigning a rulebase to every individual agent that needs it, you can assign it once to the group.

Every rulebase map can have two types of groups: user-defined and automatic. Automatic groups, defined for you in TIBCO Hawk, consist of operating system groups and the ALL group. The ALL group includes every agent on your network. The set of operating system groups includes one group for each operating system represented in the ALL group. For example, a network where TIBCO Hawk agents run on Solaris and Microsoft Windows has Solaris and Microsoft Windows operating system groups, and an ALL group.

You can also define groups using the Rulebase Map Group Editor in TIBCO Hawk WebConsole. User-defined groups are optional, and can include any combination of individual agents and other agent groups. For example, a user-defined group might include one or more automatic groups.

All group names begin with a plus (+) character. Operating system groups are named ++<OS>, where OS is the name of the operating system. The ALL group has the name ++.

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