Getting Started

Workload automation is a heavy-duty topic, and Automic Automation provides many enterprise-grade features to address highly complex scenarios. The depth and breadth of this area may seem challenging for new users.

This Getting Started guide covers the essential first steps so that you can quickly set up and run your first Job. The guide walks you through the most important concepts, functions and features in your system. Practical exercises let you verify that you have understood and set things up correctly.

This guide is divided in four main sections:

• Basics Before We Start

  Fundamental concepts that you must know before starting

• Setup

  Getting Started for administrator users

  Basic configuration and objects you need to set up in order to carry out the exercises in this Getting Started guide

• Design

  Getting Started for developers and object designers, also interesting for operators and managers

  Setting up and running your first Job, Workflow and Notification

• Monitor

  Getting Started for operators and managers, also interesting for developers and object designers

  Monitoring and analyzing your first Workflow and Schedule

Recommendation

Before starting, read the following topics in the product documentation to get acquainted with the system:

• About Automic Automation

  Overview of the product and its main components

• Automic Automation Architecture

  Overview of how the components interact with each other

Education

Broadcom's Enterprise Software Academy provides a comprehensive curriculum of free courses and tutorials. If you have not already done so, register at Enterprise Software Academy. Once registered, you can start profiting from our education offer immediately by enrolling in any course of your interest.

Tip: The Education team is constantly working on new content. Check the Enterprise Software Academy regularly for new free courses!

The following course(s) are associated with this topic:

• Automic Automation 12.3 Foundations

• Automic Automation 12.3 Overview

• Automic Web Interface 12.3 Fundamentals

• Automic Automation 12.3 Introduction to Objects