Defining REST Agent Jobs

Processes in Automic Automation are combinations of individual steps that are linked to each other. Objects are entities that work together to form coherent automated sequences. As a developer and object designer, you create, edit and work with them in the Process Assembly perspective. Objects that are executing or have been executed are called tasks and they are visible in the Process Monitoring perspective, where you can access their history and monitors.

A REST Job is an Automic Automation object; therefore, it represents one of these steps. As any other Automic Automation object, it consists of several definition pages. After adding a Job you start configuring it by defining the relevant attributes on its definition pages. Some of these pages are common and available for all object types. Others are available for some object types only.

A REST Job object consists of multiple definition pages:

• Pages that are common to all Automic Automation Jobs, see Defining the Common Job Properties.

• REST-specific pages:

  • REST Agent Jobs: Web Services Settings

  • Defining REST Agent Jobs: Requests

  • Defining REST Agent Jobs: Responses

Adding and Defining REST Agent Jobs

Follow these steps:

1. In the Automic Web Interface, go to the Process Assembly perspective. It opens to the Explorer view that contains the list of jobs that are available to you in your system.

2. You have two options:

   • Right-click anywhere on the list and select Add > Add Object.

   • Click the Add Object button on the toolbar. On the Add Object dialog, start typing the type of object you want to create in the Search field, for example, REST.

3. Select REST Job and click Add. The Object Name dialog is displayed.

4. Enter a descriptive Name.

5. Optionally, enter a short and descriptive Title that helps you recognize the purpose of the object.

6. Click OK. A new page opens where you can start defining the REST Job properties. You do this on the following pages:

   • Web Service, see REST Agent Jobs: Web Services Settings.

   • Request, see Defining REST Agent Jobs: Requests.

   • Response, see Defining REST Agent Jobs: Responses.

7. On the Attributes page of the REST Job definition pages, select the REST Agent. For more information, see Attributes Page in the Automic Automation product documentation.

8. Specify the report-specific parameters, see Defining Integration Report Properties

9. Save the object.

See also:

• Executing REST Jobs

• Defining Integration Report Properties

• Monitoring REST Jobs