Monitoring an Instrumented Application through the TIBCO Hawk Console
The TIBCO Hawk Console is a console application that displays the status of all agents. It is used to view alerts, interact with agents and their microagents, and edit rulebases and other configuration objects. A microagent is an object used by a TIBCO Hawk agent to carry out certain related tasks: to run scripts, to obtain file system information such as free hard disk space or to retrieve a process table. In the TIBCO Hawk Console, instrumented applications appear in the list of microagents, using the name that the application provides through its AMI interface. See Console API for more information on rulebases and microagents. Any methods thus made visible appear as if they are microagent methods, with arguments and results as described.
Interaction with an instrumented application can occur in the following ways:
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Using the TIBCO Hawk Console, you can interact with an instance of your application from any location in the network. |
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Using the TIBCO Hawk Console, you can set up subscriptions to data that your methods provide and use tables and charts to view the results over time. |
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Using the TIBCO Hawk Console, you can interact with all instances of your application, across a network, by using network query and network action. |
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Using the TIBCO Hawk Console and the rulebase editor, you can create rules to automate monitoring your application from anywhere in the network. Normally, you will create a special rulebase for a managed application and load it onto all TIBCO Hawk agents on computers where that application resides. |