Pre-Con Ed: CA Workload Automation AE: Tips and Tricks

World®
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CA Workload Automation AE:
Tips and Tricks
Mike Woods, CA Technologies, Principal Engineering Services Architect
MFX09E
MAINFRAME AND WORKLOAD AUTOMATION

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Abstract
This session will cover many tips and tricks gathered from CA experts
and customers. The presentation will cover day to day usage including
scheduling and monitoring.
Michael
Woods
CA Technologies
Principal Engineering
Services Architect

Agenda
CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION AE
LOAD BALANCING
WORKLOAD CONTROL CENTER
Q & A
1
2
3
4

CA Workload Automation AE
§ Passing job attribute as environment variables
This settings makes some job attributes available as environment
variables
– SetJobAttributeEnvironmentals=0|1
0 Specifies that the scheduler does not automatically set the supported
job attributes as environment variables
1 Specifies that the scheduler does automatically set the supported job
attributes as environment variables
Configuration Settings

§ Passing job attribute as environment variables
This settings makes some job attributes available as environment
variables
__job_name=job_name
__box_name=box_name
__machine=machine
__run_machine=run_machine
__max_exit_success=max_exit_success

§ Passing environment variables as job attributes
– Job attribute envvars added in 11.3 release
– Only applicable for 11.3+ agents
– Envvar attribute can contain up to 255 characters per entry
I.E envvars: MIKE=WOODS
– Overrides what is in job profile
– May be useful for testing changes without changing scripts
– Can be used to switch pwd

§ Failback simplification
– PrimaryFailbackMode setting settings 0|1|2
0 default setting, must stop scheduler to regain HA status
1 The scheduler runs dormant like a shadow until the next failover and
takes over processing events
2 The primary becomes the primary again without shutting the shadow
down first
§ Note – A DB failover will still require an autobcp to
synchronize the database again

§ ManagerHostAlias
– Is used to define how the agent defines the manager hostname
communication.manageraddress_1=SWATRH5x64-3
– Helps ensure agents resolve name to communicate back
– Only applicable to the scheduler
§ AutoServerAliasId
– Same idea as ManagerHostAlias

§ Append Messages
– AppendEventMessageText setting values 0|1
– 0 messages are displayed as normal
– 1 Specifies that the event message text is written on the same line
after the keyword TEXT.
– Creates a longer message to make log scraping more effective

§ AUTOSYS_LOG
– Is set on the client environment
– When set, creates a copy of the output into the $AUTOUSER/out dir
§ I.E. autorep.31150.out
§ In the above example, 31150 is the pid of the cli request
– When combined with ISDBGACTIV it gives the additional output into
the file as well. This creates a single place to collect the data when
trying to troubleshoot a problem.
Environment Variables

§ RESTRICT_FORCE_STARTJOB
§ Is set on the scheduler environment
Specifies if the scheduler restricts you from running multiple
job instances while the job is in a RUNNING state.
CAUAJM_I_60000 Job (test) is already running.
FORCE_STARTJOB has no effect.
Environment Variables

§ After a DB failover, they need to be resynced
§ Oracle provides datapump utility that is more efficient that
autobcp
– Create Links to each database as documented in the Admin guide
– Test links
– Use autobcpORAdp.pl when doing a resynch
DB Failover

Load Balancing
§ Using Job Class
– Used to define how many concurrent jobs can be running before queing
– Agent allows you to configure custom job classes
Initiators.class_n=jobclass,number_of_initiators
Example to create an additional job class named DB that allows 10 jobs of
that class to run at any given time.
Initiators.class_1=DEFAULT,1000
Initiators.class_2=DB,10
configuration

Load Balancing
§ Using Job Class
– Job_class job attribute used to specify which class it should use
Example:
insert_job: dbtrig1 job_type: DBTRIG
Job_class: DB
machine: DB_agent
tablename: stores
connect_string:"jdbc:sqlserver://myhost:1433;DatabaseName=pubs"
configuration

Load Balancing
configuration
§ Using Job Class
– Automatiaclly assign a job to a class
– initiators.afmjobclassmap_n=verb,subverb,jobclass
– From Receiver.log
/WAAE_WF0.1/MAIN RUN SQOOPJOB
– Update agentparm.txt
initiators.class_2=Hadoop,10
initiators.afmjobclassmap_1=RUN,SQOOPJOB,Hadoop
– Verify
7433.843957_1/WAAE_WF0.1/MAIN acquired initiator of class HADOOP. 9 left

Workload Control Center
§ My Profile
– Users can set personal preferences
§ Time Zone – Displays time stamps in selected timezone
§ Date/time format - select the format for the date and time based on
country preferences
§ Type – choose the format of how much information is displayed
– I.E. Short = 10/2/16 1:54 AM
– I.E Full = Sunday, October 2, 2016 1:54:26 AM GMT
– I.E. in Turkish = 02 Ekim 2016 Pazar 01:54:35 GMT
Personal customizations

§ Quick Edit and Application Editor
– Users can decide what job types they would like to see on palate.
§ Dashboard
– Can display widgets they have access to
– Can rearrange them
– Modify the size
– Number of rows displays
– Auto-refresh

§ Monitoring
– Modify the size
– Number of rows displays
– Auto-refresh

§ Displays jobs in a ‘file directory’ style
§ Boxes are expanded to show jobs within and nested are
displayed as well.
§ Job selected in flow view is highlighted in tree view
§ Job selected in tree view is brought into focus on flow view
Tree View in Monitoring

Using Tree-View

§ Increase productivity and help ensure standards are at least
displayed
§ Use the batch interface to create
§ Can be global or user specific
Job Templates

Creates job templates to be used both in Quick Edit and Application Editor
§ Global template for all users, templates only for specific uses
Syntax: job_template -u,--user <user> -p,--password <password> <-g,--global |
-f,--for-user <user> > < -l,--list | -r,--remove <template-name> |
-i,--import <template-name> <file-name> | -export <template-name> <file-
name>
[-o,--overwrite]

1. Use autorep to prepare JIL definitions
2. Modify JIL file to prepare it for import as a template
3. Create a global template for all users
4. Create a template for ejmcommander user only
5. List the global templates available
6. List the templates available for ejmcommander user only
7. Log in to Quick Editor as ejmcommander and use the new templates

Prepare JIL Definitions
Note 1: After JIL files are
ready, copy them to a
computer running WCC.
Note 2: It is possible to
have only 1 job
definition for 1 file to
import as template.
§ Use autorep output to create a JIL file:
autorep –q –j JOBNAME > filename.jil

Prepare JIL Definitions Continued
§ Delete insert_job: JOBNAME
§ In case you want to use job name as a part of template:
– rename insert_job: JOBNAME to job_name: JOBNAME
– put job_type: TYPE on a new line
§ Repeat the same for both JIL files

Import as a Global Template
§ Import global template:
job_template.bat -u ejmcommander -p ejmcommander -g -i
globalTemplate c:tempglobal_template.jil

Import as a User Template
§ Import user template:
job_template.bat -u ejmcommander -p ejmcommander –f
ejmcommander -i userTemplate c:tempuser_template.jil

§ List the global templates available:
job_template.bat -u ejmcommander -p ejmcommander –l -g
§ List the user templates available:
job_template.bat -u ejmcommander -p ejmcommander –l -f
List the Templates

§ Log on again after adding add/modify a template using
job_template CLI
§ Log on again after modifying filter job types filter using
filter_jobtypes CLI
§ Log on again to apply new or updated EEM policies

Questions?

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