pre-con ed: ca workload automation de: tips and tricks

CAWorkloadAutomationDEEditionTipsandTricks

SimonPearsonCATechnologiesSeniorEngineeringServicesArchitectSession#:MFX17E

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Abstract

InthisTechTalk,youwilllearnsomevaluabletipstohelpyoumoreeffectively

leveragetheschedulingandreportingfeaturesinCAWorkloadAutomationDESimonPearsonCATechnologiesSeniorEngineeringServicesArchitect


Agenda

USEFULDESKTOPCLIENTCUSTOMIZATIONS

USINGTHEMONITORINGVIEWSEARCHFEATURE

USEFULREPORTINGTIPS

DESERVERLOGMAINTENANCE

USEFULDOCUMENTATION

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DesktopClientCustomizationsThe“Preferences”DialogallowsyoutosetdefaultpropertiesforamajorityofWorkloadObjectsinDE:

§ Events

§ Applications

§ Notifications

§ WorkloadObjects


DesktopClientCustomizationsThe“Preferences”DialogallowsyoutosetdefaultpropertiesforamajorityofWorkloadObjectsinDE:

§ Events

§ Applications

§ Notifications

§ WorkloadObjects

§ SaveTime

§ Consistency

§ HelpStandardizationEfforts

§ Getridofobjectsyoudon’t

use

§ Createdefaultsforre-use


SettingaDefaultPrefixforEventsAllowsyoumoreeasilydefineEventsthatadheretoyournamingstandards


SettingDefaultNotificationPreferences


RemovingUnusedWorkloadObjects


ArrangingWorkloadObjects


SettingJobDefaultsforWorkloadObjects


ExportingDesktopClientPreferences


Demonstration


UsingtheMonitoringViewSearchFunction


MonitoringViewSearchFunction


MonitoringViewSearchFunction§ Searchlistishyperlinkedtoeasynavigationtothatinstance!


Demonstration


UsefulReportingTips


UsefulReportingTips§ Usethecannedreportsastemplatesforyourcustomreports!


Usingcannedreportsastemplatesforyourcustomreports


Cannedreportsastemplatesforyourcustomreports-greatfor“ReverseEngineering”


Demonstration


UsefulReportingTips§ Usethecannedreportsastemplatesforyourcustomreports!

§ ThereisatonofexternalinformationavailableforBIRT:– DesktopClientHelp– BIRTDocumentation

§ http://www.eclipse.org/birt/documentation/– BIRTFlashDemo:

§ http://demo.actuate.com/demos/EclipseDemo/EclipseDemo.html– BIRTGettingStarted

§ http://www.eclipse.org/birt/getting-started/– BIRTCommunity

§ http://www.eclipse.org/birt/community/


DEServerLogMaintenance


MaintainingDEServerLogs§ LogsDirectoryintheDEServerInstallationwillgrowovertime

§ TheDEServerLogsDirectorycontainsarchivedandcurrentcopiesof:– Encrypted(.bin)DEAuditLogs– DECLIcommandLogs– DETracelogs (Serverstartup/shutdown,processing,etc.)

§ Theselogsarenotautomaticallypurged,soyoumaywanttoperiodicallypurgeoldlogsandreclaimspace


Demonstration


UsefulDocumentation


CAWorkloadAutomationDEdocops

https://docops.ca.com/ca-wla-de/12-0/en

Checkforthelatestplatformcertifications


DownloadtheCAWLADEBookshelfand/orcheckforupdatesoccasionally


CAWorkloadAutomationAgents11.3.05.00docops – new!

https://docops.ca.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=331097540

Checkforthelatestplatformcertifications


Agreatguideforinformationonthe11.3.4Agentsincludedwiththe11.3.4incremental2download


Questions

Formoreinfo:

• docops.ca.com/wlade• communities.ca.com• support.ca.com• ca.com/wla/de• validate.ca.com


Questions?

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