Monitoring Console

From the Monitoring Console, you can import and configure applications to monitor other TIBCO applications in your TIBCO Administrator domain.

The console uses a Monitoring Archive (MAR) file to create a monitoring application. A MAR file is a collection of one or more monitoring configurations. A monitoring configuration is a TIBCO Hawk rulebase template. The MAR file is created using the command-line Monitoring Archive utility (MAR utility). For details, see Using the Monitoring Archive Utility.

To create a monitoring application, in the Monitoring Console, you must add a MAR file to your domain. You can deploy this monitoring application to any target in your domain. Here, a Hawk Repository within your domain.

Installation Considerations

If you delete the Application Domain for the console using the Resource Management> Application Domains dialog, then you must restart TIBCO Administrator.

If you update the Monitoring console by first removing it and then adding the new version, log out of TIBCO Administrator and log back in before using the plug-in.

Note: If using a TIBCO Administrator domain with a database backend, make sure you set the value for Maximum Connections in the Database Configuration tab of the DomainUtility to be at least 10. Refer to the TIBCO Runtime Agent DomainUtility User’s Guide for details.

Security Considerations

Security access determines whether a user can perform an operation on a managed object in your domain. Users with read-only access cannot add, deploy (and undeploy), or update monitoring configurations. Users with read-write access to the Monitoring Management folder get access to all contained consoles. Only users with read-write access can use the ConfigureMonitoring command-line utility.

If your TIBCO Administrator domain or if the Application domain used for the Monitoring Management Console uses a file based repository, then read-write permissions have to be assigned in the Data Access folder. To access the Data Access folder, in TIBCO Administrator, go to User Management> Security> TIBCO Administrator> Permissions. In this folder, assign read-write access to the Sys--<domainName> repository file.