TIBCO Hawk Agent The TIBCO Runtime Agent installation includes a TIBCO Hawk agent. An Hawk agent is an autonomous process that resides on each computer on which TIBCO Runtime Agent is installed and monitors TIBCO applications on that computer. The TIBCO Hawk agent operates autonomously and is active whenever the operating system it monitors is active. The Hawk agent uses a set of rules, called rulebases, to configure system management, status, and automation tasks. The Hawk agent monitors conditions on its local machine and send alerts over the network only when problems are detected.