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October 2015

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CA Workload Automation Agent Monitor r12 Overview

Bill Sherwin Senior Principal Consultant EMEA Workload Automation Team

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CA Workload Automation Agent Monitor is designed to provide a focal point for real-

time information on all CA Workload Agents defined to any and all of the CA Workload

Automation solutions in use.

Key benefits include:

Designed to improve application availability with simplified monitoring of WA Agent status

Dashboard alerts and drill-down detail help minimise job delays and business disruption

WA Agent Log download improves the efficiency of identifying failures and their cause

Automatic discovery and population of WA Agent database simplifies implementation

This First Release is available at no extra charge to any CA Workload Automation customer

CA Workload Automation Agent Monitor

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View and export details of configured agents

View WA Agent Log Files

Supported schedulers and their associated agents and plug-ins – AutoSys 11.3.6 and above

– CA7 11.3, 12 and above

– dSeries 11.3 and above

– ESP 11.4 and above

Supports EEM and LDAP authentication

Agent Monitor web service

CA WLA Agent Monitor r12 – First Release

Server: Windows 2012 Suse Linux 11 RHEL Linux V5 Suse Linux 12 RHEL Linux V6 RHEL Linux V7

Browser: IE 10.0 and higher Firefox 34 and higher Chrome 38 and higher

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CA WA Agent Monitor Architecture

CA7 ESP

dSeries AutoSys

Agent Monitor

Agents

Scheduler’s agents and agent’s status

Log, system info

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Agent Monitor Dashboard

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Dashboard – Select Agents for Drill Down

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Filtered Active Agents View

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Filtered Inactive Agents View

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Customise Agent Filtered View

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Select Agent Entry for Actions

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Agents View – Action Export All

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Agent Export All Data

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Dashboard – Select Schedulers for Drill Down

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Filtered Active Schedulers View – Autosys

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Filtered Active Schedulers View – CA 7

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Customise Schedulers Filtered View

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Select Scheduler Entry for Actions

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Edit Scheduler Instance Definition – Autosys

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Edit Scheduler Instance Definition – CA 7

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CA WLA Agent Management Under Consideration

Control – TBD

– Start and stop an agent

– Correlate with workload data

last time job submitted, number jobs executed, etc

– Integration with other workload interfaces

WCC, CA7 Web client

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CA WLA Agent Management Under Consideration

Deploy - TBD

– Centralized management of agent and plug-in configuration data

Create/Read/Update/Delete

– Automated and manual installation and removal of agents and plug-

ins

– Automated and manual upgrade and updates of agents and plug-ins

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CA WLA Agent Management Under Consideration

Analytics - TBD

– Historical, trends

– Predictive, planning

Automation - TBD

– Rules

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Not a product so currently must be requested via form

CA WA Agent Monitor Download Request CA Support Product Home Page

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Helps reduce the cost and

complexity of managing WA Agents

running mission critical workloads

Improves application availability

and WA Agent visibility for all CA

WA solutions

Reduces risk of business disruption

with real-time monitoring and drill-

down details

CA Workload Automation Agent Monitor Summary of Benefits

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EMEA Workload Automation Team Contacts

– Bill Sherwin

EMEA Workload Automation

Bill.Sherwin@ca.com

– Chris Elvin

EMEA MSC for WA

Chris.Elvin@ca.com

– Pascal Champenois

EMEA Workload Automation

Pascal.Champenois@ca.com

– Simon Pearson

EMEA MSC for WA

Simon.Pearson@ca.com

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