Once a situation may arise when there is need to view or save the contents of TIBCO Rendezvous Active Enterprise binary messages. If you just get them using tibrvlisten, then messages appear like this:
message={_data_=[521 opaque bytes]}
I know that TIBCO Support experts have some tools to display and save these Rendezvous opaque bytes of AE messages, but my quick solution was to create small BusinessWorks process, which will do capture and store job. 
There are two activities: Rendezvous Subscriber and Write File. Rendezvous Subscriber will listen appropriate subject and has only one output complex element to represent message body. Write File has “write as binary” option and Rendezvous Subscriber’s output body is input for a file binary content. There is a formula error, but in this case it can be ignored. File name will form from Process ID to save each message in a separate file.
When this process are running, binary files will appear in the specified folder. One file per message. You can open it in your favorite binary editor/viewer and have fun!
I have encountered an error on AIX box, related to start up of hma. When the box is re-started, there is a script that runs to start hawk agent and the agent then should bring up hma automatically.
What is observed is that, when the box is restarted, agent comes up correctly but the hma does not. After I kill the agent and run the same script again, it starts both agent and hma correctly, i.e. agent starts hma automatically.
Script does nothing more than running the hawkagent_domain command.
The versions of Hawk and TRA being used are listed below,
Hawk – 4.5.1
TRA – 5.2.0.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
AppManage utility can be used to create a BusinessWorks application using EAR file, export and import deployment configuration, deploy, undeploy, start, stop, delete an application. It can operate in batch mode. You can run AppManage utility on any machine in the TIBCO Domain. It is placed in /<tibco_home>/tra/<version>/bin/ folder. Log file will be in the domain log folder. I will show the most simple use of AppManage utility for stop and start one BW application. This can be used for scheduled restart, for example.
<application> is “Application” in TIBCO Administrator, not “Service Instance”
The user, defined in the cred.txt file, mush have appropriate rights to start and stop an application. You can operate as “admin”, or better to define new user in TIBCO Administrator with write access rights.
You can set
Trace.Startup=true
Trace.Task.*=true
Trace.JC.*=true
Trace.Engine=true
Trace.Debug.*=true
in deployed tra file and then restart the application, run the process and until the errors appear again, then check detailed log file locates in the <install-path>\tibco\tra\domain\application\logs folder. Please keep in mind that all manual settings will be cleared after redeploy. To keep it permanent, set in bwengine.tra file in <install-path>\tibco\bw\<version>\bin folder.
Also possible to redirect the stdout and stderr output to any file. Please set in deployed cmd:
"/<install-path>/tibco/bw/<version>/bin/bwengine.exe" --run --propFile "/<install-path>/tibco/tra/domain/application/<application>.tra" > "/tmp/trace.out" 2>&1
then start this cmd from command shell.
You can also enable higher tracing to Hawk, set -tsm_tracelevel -1 in your <install-path>\tibco\tra\domain\<domain-name>\hawkagent.cfg and restart your Hawk Agent. The logs will be under <install-path>\tibco\tra\domain\<domain-name>\logs\tsm.log by default, you can define it using -tsm_traceLogFile parameter.
There are two activities: Rendezvous Subscriber and Write File. Rendezvous Subscriber will listen appropriate subject and has only one output complex element to represent message body. Write File has “write as binary” option and Rendezvous Subscriber’s output body is input for a file binary content. There is a formula error, but in this case it can be ignored. File name will form from Process ID to save each message in a separate file.
