Clients and Agent Assignment

As a system administrator, you create, configure and manage the clients in your system. You also assign agents to clients and define the rights they will have in a specific client.

You must create clients to store all your objects (Users, Jobs, and so on). You also have to assign them agents so that the clients can communicate with the target systems they need to execute and/or monitor the objects.

Clients are the largest organizational units in an Automation Engine system. Users, User Groups and objects are assigned to a particular Client. This means that although all the Clients in a system share the same Automation Engine instance, each of them contains different data.

You can only create new Clients in Client 0 (also called system Client). This Client is already available when you install the Automation Engine and has all authorizations and privileges. You also use it to manage system-wide settings, such as login information, calendars, variables, as well as to create Clients, Users and User Groups that you then move to other Clients, to set up agents, etc.

Use the following credentials to log in for the first time:

User name: UC
Department: UC
Password: UC

For security reasons, it is recommended to change the password immediately.

Clients other than 0 are numbered and can contain 4 digits; this means, you can create and name Clients from 1 through to 9999. Each Client should have its own administrator user.

The UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS variable is available on each Client and allows you to configure the Client's settings. The variable determines the behavior of the Client, parameters that affect use management issues, the Client's logging, etc. For more information, see UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS - Various Client Settings.

Read the following topics to learn more about the Automation Engine Clients:

Assigning Agents to Clients

Once an Agent has been installed and authenticated, you must connect it to a Client and define which rights it will have on said Client.

You can define the necessary rights in the Authorizations page of each Agent. However, as a system administrator, you can avoid the time-consuming task of defining Agent rights one by one and use the Agent/Client Assignment (HSTA) object to do it for several Agents.

The definition of this object is directly related to the UC_AGENT_ASSIGNMENT variable. When you modify the list of active HSTA objects, the variable is updated automatically and vice versa.

Read the following topics to learn more about Agent/Client assignment: