Autosys Command Line Interface

Although Windows XP's "at" command or Korn shell's "cron" allows you to run job at desired time - It
lacks enterprise level job scheduling features. PLATINUM Technology might fill this gap by AutoSys.

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AutoSys is ...

o A full job scheduling and management system for NT systems.

o Allows you create simple or complex sets of instructions to automatically execute at
regular intervals.
o Allows you trigger jobs by date and time, file arrival, and other criteria.

Like any scheduling product, AutoSys automatically monitors your jobs. If needed, AutoSys can itself
restart jobs that have failed, or cancelled, or were aborted for any reasons. For mission critical
projects AutoSys also has a high availability option that will perform rollover of jobs to a backup
server if your primary server fails. (Need clustering system like VCS - Veritas Clustering System). . .

Defining Autosys Jobs

There are the three methods you can use to create job definitions:

o By Autosys Web interface

o By AutoSys Graphical User Interface (GUI).
o By using AutoSys Job Information Language (JIL) through a command-line interface.
 Autosys Job Types and Structure

There are three types of jobs:

o Command,
o File Watcher
o Box.

Box Jobs : Container of other jobs (including other boxes), and box itself performs no actions,
although it can trigger other jobs to run. An important feature of this type of job is that boxes can be
put inside of other boxes

File Watcher Jobs : Watch for the arrival of a specified file.

Autosys CLI Syntax - Interface

Here is a template file that explains the syntax of Autosys JIL. (Job Information Language.)
 Autosys Command Line

Autosys Command Line Interface, Autosys Command Reference

Autosys Graphical User Interface Gui

Unicenter AutoSys Job Management is an industry

standard job management system that provides
exceptional reliability to support enterprise mission critical
applications. Autosys is designed for distributed
environments.

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Here is a quick look at the GUI of Autosys. Although the

screenshot is not very clear, still it gives you the idea that
the GUI is more or less similar to standard Windows or
KDE Applications.

Autosys Responds to the following Signals.

ALARM
CHANGE_PRIORITY
 CHANGE_STATUS
COMMENT
DELETEJOB
FORCE_STARTJOB
JOB_OFF_HOLD
JOB_OFF_ICE
JOB_ON_HOLD
JOB_ON_ICE
KILLJOB
SEND_SIGNAL
SET_GLOBAL
STARTJOB
STOP_DEMON

Autosys has an interface that is easy to master.

The Unicenter AutoSys Job Management console

provides:

o A single point of controlfor viewing one or all

scheduling servers, allowing you to monitor and
control jobs.
o A virtual console instead of a physical console,
accessible from any Unicenter AutoSys Job
Management machine. It means - you can bring up
the console anywhere in your environment

Autosys Gui - Graphical User Interface

 Autosys Gui, Autosys Job Scheduling

Autosys quick reference and guide - cheat sheet.

Autosys Guide - Austosys Quick Reference

Unicenter AutoSys Job Management has unique

visualization, modeling, and analysis capabilities through
its companion tool - Unicenter Job Visualization. This tool
graphically displays all job processing activityies allowing
you to see how the production schedule impacts the
entire organization. It gives a clear, actual picture of
enterprise processing, whree you can do visualising,
modeling, and analyzing jobflows with ease. Also
provides developers, operators, and managers with a
common workspace in which to collaborate and design
production schedules.

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 Autosys Status Abbreviations

The following table lists the abbreviations used in the ST

(status) column of the autorep report, and gives the status
for each abbreviation.

AC ACTIVATED
FA FAILURE
IN INACTIVE
 OH ON_HOLD
OI ON_ICE
QU QUE_WAIT
RE RESTART
RU RUNNING
ST STARTING
SU SUCCESS
TE TERMINATED
Where to go to find Autosys Errors

o $AUTOSYS/out/DBMaint.out for DB problems.

o $AUTOUSER/out/event_demon.$AUTOSERV.
o $SYBASE/install/errorlog_$DSQUERY when
event server will not start..
o ($AUTOUSER/out/event_demon.ACE).
o /tmp files created for job_run at client machine.
o NT: AutoNuTc\lib/X11\app-defaults\xpert.
o Output from the job definition output & error
files.

Autosys Dependencies

o done(job).
o exitcode(job) > 5 and exitcode(job_b) != 10.
o failure(job_a) or f (job_b).
o notrunning (job).
o success (job) and s(job_b).
o terminated(job).
o value(global_name)=100.

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Autosys Guide - Austosys Quick Reference

Autosys Guide, Autosys Reference Card PDF

Autosys Job Scheduler - Key features, Autosys FAQ

Autosys Job Scheduler - CA AutoSys

Workload Automation

CA AutoSys Workload Automation is a distributed hosted

workload automation product that provides event-driven
IT automation, policy-based management, workflow
monitoring and reporting capabilities.

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o CA AutoSys improves the availability of the

critical workflows and IT services your business
relies on.
o It proactively manages batch and online
workload processes through our event-based IT
automation capabilities and enables workload
prioritization, leveraging real-time alerting and
dynamic critical path management.

Autosys features event-driven IT automation, workflow

monitoring, workflow and policy management, role based
administration, batch application integration, web
services, dynamic critical path management, and
workload balancing.

CA AutoSys Workload Automation supports operating

systems like Windows, Linux, Linux for System z, AIX,
HPUX, Solaris and z/OS environments.
 Overview of Autosys Job Scheduler

CA AutoSys Workload Automation (CA AutoSys WA) for

distributed environments helps you meet real-time
business demands efficiently, reliably and securely by
dynamically responding to business events, mapping
workload processes to service level agreements, ensuring
continual monitoring and automating recovery.

Key Capabilities of Autosys Scheduler

Some interesting capabilities are depicted in the figure

below.
 Benefits of CA Autosys Workload Automation

CA AutoSys WA provides distributed-hosted event driven

automation that aligns workload execution with business
policies to:

o Increase operational efficiency

o Improve productivity
o Increase availability of critical business
services
o Manage costs and lower risk

costs and lower risk

Autosys Job Scheduler - CA AutoSys Workload

Automation

Autosys Job Scheduler, CA AutoSys Workload Automation

 Autosys Tutorial - A primer on Autosys

Autosys Tutorial

Unicenter Autosys Job Management is a workload

automation (aka job scheduling) tool supplied by
Computer Associates. The name of the product has gone
through various iterations as of 11.3 it will be known as
"CA Workload Automation AE" the AE part referring to
AutoSys Engine (there are through other CA Workload
Automation tools that have other suffixes).

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The current version is r11.0 and it has been GA since

November 2007. This version comes with eIAM
(Embedded Identity and Access management) security
management module to secure access to scheduling
resources.
 Autosys Components

The AutoSys r11 architecture is a 3-tier architecture

consisting of Client utilities, Application Server(s) /
Scheduler Server(s) and Database(s).

Scheduler

Replaces the Event Processor. A multi-threaded process

which selects events from the Event Server and
processes them. Changes from 4.5 include multiple event
batching and dynamic thread creation.
 Application Server

A new component which handles the Database

connectivity for the AutoSys r11 clients, Command Line
Utilities and the GUI's. It has a persistent connection to
the DB to allow improved response speed. It also
removes the requirement of having a global database
user/password.

Event Server

The DB containing the events. Differences from 4.5

include vendor library files for the Server and client
components.

WCC

The default user interface for AutoSys is Workload

Command Centre (WCC). The current version of this
application is WCC r11.0 a browser-based application
which allows job management and editing, plus
customizable view creation and granular permissions to
be created.

Remote Agent
The Remote Agent is now a persistent process on all
Operating Systems, it also loses its DB API making it
independent of a particular AutoSys instance.

eEEM aka eIAM

eTrust Embedded Entitlements Manager is the

replacement of the eTrust Access Control component
seen in version 4.5. eEEM is a cut down version of eAC
and is aimed at a single application access control point
rather than a system based tool. It allows user and group
access to AutoSys and WCC resources via an ACL
administered GUI, access can be granted or denied
based upon filters and groups or managed explicitly.

Autosys is really a very wonderful tool - especially on Unix

variants. Very simple job definition language. Lots of
commands to control the job.

Autosys Tutorial

Autosys Tutorial, Unicenter Autosys Job Management,

Autosys Command Reference