Microagent Overview

The TIBCO Hawk agent uses processes known as Hawk microagents to collect information and operate using that information. These microagents execute specific tasks known as methods. Methods collect information and perform tasks. Methods can be called directly or from within a TIBCO Hawk rulebase.

This manual describes how various Hawk microagents and respective methods can be used for system and application monitoring. It also provides a complete list of all the available methods for the respective microagents. You can use this guide as a reference to know all the available methods for any microagent.

Microagent Types

TIBCO Hawk microagents are classified by the functions they perform and can be one of three types:
  • IMPACT_INFO returns information.
  • IMPACT_ACTION performs an action on the TIBCO Hawk system.
  • IMPACT_ACTION_INFO both returns information and takes an action based on it.

Method Output

Methods can return information by invocation or subscription. Invocation returns information on a one-time basis. Subscription information is returned either synchronously, on a regular time schedule, or asynchronously, when data becomes available.

Method invocation returns a table of results, according to specified arguments (if any).