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CAWorkloadAutomationAE:TipsandTricksMikeWoods,CATechnologies,PrincipalEngineeringServicesArchitect

MFX09E

MAINFRAMEANDWORKLOADAUTOMATION

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Abstract

ThissessionwillcovermanytipsandtricksgatheredfromCAexpertsandcustomers.Thepresentationwillcoverdaytodayusageincludingschedulingandmonitoring.

MichaelWoodsCATechnologiesPrincipalEngineeringServicesArchitect


Agenda

CAWORKLOADAUTOMATIONAE

LOADBALANCING

WORKLOADCONTROLCENTER

Q&A

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CAWorkloadAutomationAE

§ PassingjobattributeasenvironmentvariablesThissettingsmakessomejobattributesavailableasenvironmentvariables– SetJobAttributeEnvironmentals=0|10Specifiesthattheschedulerdoesnotautomaticallysetthesupportedjobattributesasenvironmentvariables

1Specifiesthattheschedulerdoes automaticallysetthesupportedjobattributesasenvironmentvariables

ConfigurationSettings



§ PassingjobattributeasenvironmentvariablesThissettingsmakessomejobattributesavailableasenvironmentvariables

__job_name=job_name

__box_name=box_name

__machine=machine

__run_machine=run_machine

__max_exit_success=max_exit_success




§ Passingenvironmentvariablesasjobattributes– Jobattributeenvvars addedin11.3release– Onlyapplicablefor11.3+agents– Envvar attributecancontainupto255charactersperentryI.Eenvvars:MIKE=WOODS– Overrideswhatisinjobprofile– Maybeusefulfortestingchangeswithoutchangingscripts– Canbeusedtoswitchpwd



§ Failbacksimplification– PrimaryFailbackMode settingsettings0|1|20defaultsetting,muststopschedulertoregainHAstatus1Theschedulerrunsdormantlikeashadowuntilthenextfailoverand

takesoverprocessingevents2Theprimarybecomestheprimaryagainwithoutshuttingtheshadow

downfirst

§ Note– ADBfailoverwillstillrequireanautobcptosynchronizethedatabaseagain




§ ManagerHostAlias– Isusedtodefinehowtheagentdefinesthemanagerhostname

communication.manageraddress_1=SWATRH5x64-3– Helpsensureagentsresolvenametocommunicateback– Onlyapplicabletothescheduler

§ AutoServerAliasId– SameideaasManagerHostAlias




§ AppendMessages– AppendEventMessageText settingvalues0|1– 0messagesaredisplayedasnormal– 1Specifiesthattheeventmessagetextiswrittenonthesameline

afterthekeywordTEXT.– Createsalongermessagetomakelogscrapingmoreeffective




§ AUTOSYS_LOG– Issetontheclientenvironment– Whenset,createsacopyoftheoutputintothe$AUTOUSER/outdir

§ I.E.autorep.31150.out§ Intheaboveexample,31150isthepid oftheclirequest

– WhencombinedwithISDBGACTIVitgivestheadditionaloutputintothefileaswell.Thiscreatesasingleplacetocollectthedatawhentryingtotroubleshootaproblem.

EnvironmentVariables



§ RESTRICT_FORCE_STARTJOB

§ IssetontheschedulerenvironmentSpecifiesiftheschedulerrestrictsyoufromrunningmultiplejobinstanceswhilethejobisinaRUNNINGstate.CAUAJM_I_60000Job(test)isalreadyrunning.FORCE_STARTJOBhasnoeffect.

EnvironmentVariables



§ AfteraDBfailover,theyneedtoberesynced

§ Oracleprovidesdatapumputilitythatismoreefficientthatautobcp– CreateLinkstoeachdatabaseasdocumentedintheAdminguide– Testlinks– UseautobcpORAdp.plwhendoingaresynch

DBFailover


LoadBalancing

§ UsingJobClass– Usedtodefinehowmanyconcurrentjobscanberunningbeforequeing– AgentallowsyoutoconfigurecustomjobclassesInitiators.class_n=jobclass,number_of_initiatorsExampletocreateanadditionaljobclassnamedDBthatallows10jobsofthatclasstorunatanygiventime.Initiators.class_1=DEFAULT,1000Initiators.class_2=DB,10

configuration


LoadBalancing

§ UsingJobClass– Job_class jobattributeusedtospecifywhichclassitshoulduseExample:insert_job:dbtrig1job_type:DBTRIGJob_class:DBmachine:DB_agenttablename:storesconnect_string:"jdbc:sqlserver://myhost:1433;DatabaseName=pubs"

configuration


LoadBalancingconfiguration

§ UsingJobClass– Automatiaclly assignajobtoaclass– initiators.afmjobclassmap_n=verb,subverb,jobclass– FromReceiver.log/WAAE_WF0.1/MAINRUNSQOOPJOB– Updateagentparm.txtinitiators.class_2=Hadoop,10initiators.afmjobclassmap_1=RUN,SQOOPJOB,Hadoop– Verify7433.843957_1/WAAE_WF0.1/MAINacquiredinitiatorofclassHADOOP.9left


WorkloadControlCenter

§ MyProfile– Userscansetpersonalpreferences

§ TimeZone– Displaystimestampsinselectedtimezone§ Date/timeformat- selecttheformatforthedateandtimebasedoncountrypreferences

§ Type– choosetheformatofhowmuchinformationisdisplayed– I.E.Short=10/2/161:54AM

– I.EFull=Sunday,October2,20161:54:26AMGMT

– I.E.inTurkish=02Ekim 2016Pazar 01:54:35GMT

Personalcustomizations



§ QuickEditandApplicationEditor– Userscandecidewhatjobtypestheywouldliketoseeonpalate.

§ Dashboard– Candisplaywidgetstheyhaveaccessto– Canrearrangethem– Modifythesize– Numberofrowsdisplays– Auto-refresh




§ Monitoring– Modifythesize– Numberofrowsdisplays– Auto-refresh




§ Displaysjobsina‘filedirectory’style

§ Boxesareexpandedtoshowjobswithinandnestedaredisplayedaswell.

§ Jobselectedinflowviewishighlightedintreeview

§ Jobselectedintreeviewisbroughtintofocusonflowview

TreeViewinMonitoring


WorkloadControlCenterUsingTree-View



§ Increaseproductivityandhelpensurestandardsareatleastdisplayed

§ Usethebatchinterfacetocreate

§ Canbeglobaloruserspecific

JobTemplates



CreatesjobtemplatestobeusedbothinQuickEditandApplicationEditor

§ Globaltemplateforallusers,templatesonlyforspecificusesSyntax: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. Useautorep toprepareJILdefinitions2. ModifyJILfiletoprepareitforimportasatemplate3. Createaglobaltemplateforallusers4. Createatemplateforejmcommanderuseronly5. Listtheglobaltemplatesavailable6. Listthetemplatesavailableforejmcommanderuseronly7. LogintoQuickEditorasejmcommanderandusethenewtemplates


WorkloadControlCenterPrepareJILDefinitions

Note1:AfterJILfilesareready,copythemtoacomputerrunningWCC.

Note2:Itispossibletohaveonly1jobdefinitionfor1filetoimportastemplate.

§ Useautorep outputtocreateaJILfile:autorep–q–jJOBNAME>filename.jil


WorkloadControlCenterPrepareJILDefinitions Continued

§ Deleteinsert_job:JOBNAME§ Incaseyouwanttousejobnameasapartoftemplate:

– renameinsert_job:JOBNAMEtojob_name:JOBNAME– putjob_type:TYPEonanewline

§ RepeatthesameforbothJILfiles


WorkloadControlCenterImportasaGlobalTemplate

§ Importglobaltemplate:job_template.bat-uejmcommander-pejmcommander-g-iglobalTemplatec:\temp\global_template.jil


WorkloadControlCenterImportasaUserTemplate

§ Importusertemplate:job_template.bat-uejmcommander-pejmcommander–fejmcommander-iuserTemplatec:\temp\user_template.jil


§ Listtheglobaltemplatesavailable:job_template.bat-uejmcommander-pejmcommander–l-g

§ Listtheusertemplatesavailable:job_template.bat-uejmcommander-pejmcommander–l-f

WorkloadControlCenterListtheTemplates



§ Logonagainafteraddingadd/modifyatemplateusingjob_template CLI

§ Logonagainaftermodifyingfilterjobtypesfilterusingfilter_jobtypes CLI

§ LogonagaintoapplyneworupdatedEEMpolicies


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