Microagent Overview

The TIBCO Hawk agent uses components known as Hawk microagents to collect information and operate using that information. These microagents runs the specific tasks known as methods. Methods collect information and perform tasks. Methods can be called directly or from within a TIBCO® Operational Intelligence Hawk® RedTail - Container Edition rulebase.

This manual describes how various Hawk microagents and respective methods can be used for infrastructure 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 out-of-the-box microagent for TIBCO® OI Hawk® RedTail - Container Edition .

Microagent Types

TIBCO OI Hawk RedTail - Container Edition 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 OI Hawk RedTail - Container Edition environment.
  • 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).