Location Transparency and Fault Tolerance

A TIBCO Hawk agent runs on each node, where it collects information, applies monitoring logic, and carries out event notification and corrective actions. TIBCO Hawk agents are autonomous because they monitor and perform management tasks independently of TIBCO Hawk Console. Fault-tolerance is built in because agents perform tasks independently of any other agents or user interface. If one or more agents on the network ceases to function, other agents continue to monitor local data and perform tasks.

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On the contrary, in the console server model, if the server becomes disabled, all monitoring stops until another console server can be brought on line. Additionally, as all connections are point-to-point, all remote agents must be manually reconfigured to connect to the new server and all polled connections need to be rediscovered.