TIBCO Hawk Microagent (HMA)
The term microagent is a generic term used to refer to the Hawk managed set of methods exposed by an application. This is done by instrumenting the application using Hawk AMI API or by using a Hawk plug-in or an adapter. See the following sections for a short description of each of them. The MicroAgent is covered in more detail later on in this book.
TIBCO Hawk Microagent or HMA is a standalone partner process to the Hawk Agent and provides various methods to the Hawk agent to instrument and monitor the host operating system and applications. The HMA is an application that uses the Hawk AMI application programming interface (API) for instrumentation. The AMI API details are provided in the section below.
Like Hawk Agent, Hawk Microagent should be installed on each computer you wish to monitor.