Configuring the Hawk display to connect to a Hawk agent.

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TIBCO Hawk	-
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Description

Description:
A Hawk display is able to connect to only one Hawk domain on any machine. It does not support multiple domains. If monitoring multiple Hawk domains is required, use the Hawk webconsole which is bundled with Hawk version 5.0 and above. For more details about the Hawk webconsole, refer to the Hawk documentation.

Resolution

Follow the steps below to configure the Hawk display.

1). On the hawkagent machine, check the hawkagent configuration in the hawkagent.cfg file.

a). If standalone Hawk agents have been used, hawkagent.cfg should be located in the <cfgmgmt>/hawk/bin folder. If TRA hawkagents have been used, the hawkagent.cfg should be located under <tra>/domain/<domain>/.

b). Open hawkagent.cfg and copy "-hawk_domain <domain name>", either "-rvd_session 7474 ; tcp:7474" or "-ems_transport tcp://emsFT1:7222,tcp://emsFT2:7222" depending on which transport your hawkagents are using. Only RV or EMS can not be used as the primary transport.

2). On the machine where the Hawk display will be started, change the Hawk display configuration as follows:

a). Find out the version of Hawk. If Hawk 5.x has been used on all platforms or hawk 4.9.x has been used on the Linux platform, make the modification in <cfgmgmt>/hawk/bin/hawkdisplay.cfg. If Hawk 4.9.x has been used on a Windows machine, make the modification in the Hawk Configuration Utiltiy tool.

b). Change the Hawk domain name (case sensitive) in hawkdisplay.cfg or "Hawk Configuration Utiltiy" according to your hawkagent configuration.

c). Change the transport in hawkdisplay.cfg or "Hawk Configuration Utiltiy" according to your hawkagent configuration.

3). Start the Hawk display from <cfgmgmt>/hawk/bin/tibhawkdisplay and verify the configuration.

a). In the Hawk display, click "Help" menu->Click "Runtime Information..." .

b). In the new window, confirm the Hawk domain name and transport is correct. If the Hawk domain name and transport are not the same as configured before, contact TIBCO Hawk Support for further investigation.

Notes:

If RV is the primary transport, the hawkagent machine and Hawk display machine are supposed to be in the same subnet. If they are not in the same subnet, apply the remote daemon as follows to make Hawk the display work.

1). Since remote daemon is going to be used, disable the HMA process on the Hawk display machine.

a). Go to the Windows services panel by running "services.msc".

b). Find the service "TIBCO Hawk HMA" and stop it.

c). Set the startup type to manual or disable by right clicking the "TIBCO Hawk HMA" service and select properties.

2). When configuring the Hawk display with the RV transport, apply the remote daemon by adding the IP address of the hawkagent in daemon parameter before the TCP port.

hawkagent machine IP: 192.168.0.1

hawkagent rvd configuration: -rvd_session 7474 ; tcp:7474

hawk display transport configuration should be: -rvd_session 7474 ; tcp:192.168.0.1:7474

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Configuring the Hawk display to connect to a Hawk agent.

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