CA Workload Automation AE

CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys Edition) is a workload automation tool supplied by CA Technologies (also known as Computer Associates). The name of the product has gone through various iterations; previous versions to r11.3 were known as "Unicenter AutoSys Job Management", the AE part referring to AutoSys Edition (there are other CA Workload Automation tools that have other suffixes).
The Application Servers and Schedulers are supported on: Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Windows servers.
Clients (Remote Agents) can be run on Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, OpenVMS, z/VSE or z/OS.
Components
The AutoSys r11 architecture is a 3-tier architecture consisting of Client utilities, Application Server(s) / Scheduler Server(s) and Database(s). A SDK has been included with AutoSys r11 allowing in-house code to connect to the Application Server(s) in the same way as the supplied client (agent and interface) components.
Scheduler
A multi-threaded process which selects events from the Event Server and processes them. Includes multiple event batching and dynamic thread creation.
Application Server
Handles the Database connectivity for the AutoSys r11 clients, Command Line Utilities and the GUIs. It has a persistent connection to the DB to allow improved response speed.
Event Server
The DB containing the events.
WCC
The default user interface for AutoSys is Workload Control Centre (WCC). It consists of a number of applets that provide job management:
* Job Editor
* Job Status Console
* Job Flow Design
* Job Flow Monitoring
* Event Console
* Reporting
EEM (aka eIAM)
Embedded Entitlements Manager 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.
Common components
Several components used by AutoSys are shared with other CA products (e.g. CA NSM or CA Audit) and are stored in a common folder.

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