TIBCO Hawk
TIBCO Hawk is a software product that allows monitoring and management of distributed computing applications. A very scalable product, it is notable for the number of these rule-based software agents deployed claimed by the vendor:
Details
TIBCO Hawk provides a distributed agent-based extensible system which allows the monitoring and control of system and application software components. There are 3 main components:- Hawk Agents, which embed MicroAgents that in turn communicate with application and system services and processes, or external interfaces
- Hawk Display, which provides a user interface displaying the community of agents
- Hawk Event Service, which provides the ability to store and retrieve events via a database.
Hawk is designed to be customisable to suit specific enterprise requirements. For example, custom MicroAgents can be used to monitor custom applications though an Application Monitoring Interface using C, C++, or Java. These allow for dynamic discovery on startup, application heartbeat testing, and so on.
Hawk Microagents and adapters are either included or available as options: they either turn system information or events into Hawk events, or turn Hawk events into system actions. These include:
- Process MicroAgent: allows processes to be monitored
- Filesystem MicroAgent: allows file systems to be monitored
- System microagent: system resources to be monitored
- Logfile MicroAgent: allows system logs to be read
- Custom MicroAgent: allows scripts to be executed on a system and return some values
- Database MicroAgent: monitor the system tables of database engines via JDBC
- JVM MicroAgent: monitors JVM resources
- JMX MicroAgent: monitors JMX information
- SNMP MicroAgent: communicates with SNMP services