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TIBCO Hawk

Along with the tremendous opportunities of e-business come significant risks. The early years of e-commerce exposed many highly publicized outages that have resulted in financial losses, legal liability, and erosion of customer loyalty. Giving customers and partners direct access to an enterprise’s systems increases the need for efficient network monitoring and management software that can act, react and even "pre-act" on system problems to keep the lines of communications open.

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TIBCO Hawk® is a sophisticated tool for monitoring and managing distributed applications and systems throughout the enterprise. With Hawk, 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.

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Benefits

  • Provides a centralized view of all distributed applications and systems.
  • Minimizes network traffic by handling management through network alerts instead of repeated polling of systems.
  • Maximizes a system’s ability to find application problems quickly with its distributed micro-agent architecture.
  • Assures consistent, high-quality runtime data through management activity hooks in TIBCO components.
  • Allows a unified view of all network management activity by integrating with network management frameworks such as Tivoli and Unicenter and SNMP devices.
  • Simplifies definition of rule bases for automated system monitoring with GUI editor.

Features

  • 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 ActiveEnterprise components for proactive management of integrated components, allowing problems to be found and fixed before failure can occur.
  • Hawk Application Management Interface (AMI) routines can be embedded within custom applications, allowing active management of custom applications by the Hawk micro-agent.
  • Fully leverages publish/subscribe infrastructure for unique network management capabilities such as single-message network queries and publication of new rule bases to distributed network agents.
  • Distributed micro-agents support autonomous network behavior so local management and problem resolution can continue during an outage.
  • Multiple location-independent consoles can be added with minimal additional overhead.
  • Fault-tolerance is achieved through the independent operation of Hawk agents, which continue to perform local tasks even in the event of network failure.
  • Fully-exposed Java Console API for domain-specific display and client-server applications.
  • Problem severity can be identified quickly with color-coded alerts.