TIBCO Hawk TIBCO Hawk monitors and manages distributed applications and systems throughout the enterprise. System administrators can monitor application parameters, behavior, and loading activities for all nodes in a local or wide-area network and take action when pre-defined conditions occur. In many cases, runtime failures or slowdowns can be repaired automatically within seconds of their discovery, reducing unscheduled outages and slowdowns of critical business systems. TIBCO Hawk features include: • Extensive monitoring capabilities at the operating system and application levels including process data, disk, and CPU utilization, network statistics, log, and system files. • Built-in routines within other TIBCO ActiveEnterprise components that allow for proactive management. Problems can be found and fixed before failure occurs. • Hawk Application Management Interface (AMI) routines that can be embedded within custom adapters, allowing active management of those adapters by the Hawk microagents. • Distributed microagents that support autonomous network behavior so local management and problem resolution can continue during an outage. • Fault tolerance that is achieved through the independent operation of Hawk agents, which continue to perform local tasks even in the event of network failure. TIBCO Hawk consists of (1) a console display, (2) a central repository for storage of configuration objects, (3) agents, and (4) microagents whose monitoring duties are defined by the rule bases. • Agents monitor local conditions and take action or publish alert information that appears in the TIBCO Hawk display. • Microagents act as an interface to the managed objects and are invoked through their supported methods.
