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).

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.

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.

The DB containing the events. Differences from 4.5 include vendor library files for the Server and client components.

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.

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.

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.