Administering Automic Automation

As a system administrator, you carry out all administrative tasks to ensure that the system is up and running.

Administering your Automic Automation system encompasses different areas:

Client management: You configure self-contained environments to meet your business' requirements. Client 0 is provided with the system and allows you to administer systemwide settings. All other clients share an Automation Engine instance but do not access the same data.

Once you have created Clients and installed Agents, you establish a connection between them and define the rights the Agent has on which Client.

More information:

• System Client 0000

• Clients

  • Example: Creating a Basic Client/User Landscape

• Assigning Clients to Agents

Users and user management: You start by creating users and user groups and defining their authorizations and privileges in your system. You can also administer the respective user Connections and access the information pertaining their login authentication.

Setting up dashboards for your users allows them to access personalized information and links from one single view.

More information:

• User Management: Defining and Managing the Authorization System

  • Example: Creating a Basic Client/User Landscape

  • Example: Defining Authorizations at User Level

  • Example: Defining Authorizations at User Group Level

  • Example: Defining User Catalogs

  • Users (USER)

  • User Groups (USRG)

  • Granting Automation Engine Authorizations

  • Granting Automation Engine Privileges

  • Minimum Required Authorizations

  • Connections

• Setting Up Dashboards

• Exits

Agents and Agent Groups: Agents establish a connection to the Automation Engine, start the execution of tasks, and make both their monitoring and the corresponding reporting possible. Agents can also be upgraded either manually or using the Centralized Agent Upgrade (CAU). You can group Agents of the same platform in Agent Groups to enable the execution of jobs, file transfers, console, and file system events.

Once you have created Clients and installed Agents, you establish a connection between them and define the rights the Agent has on which Client.

• Agents (HOST)

  • Adding and Configuring Agents

  • Working with Agents

  • Advanced Options - Tracing

  • Advanced Options - Workload Balancing in Agents

  • Advanced Options - Agent Settings

  • Agent Job Messenger

• Agent Groups (HOSTG)

  • Defining Agent Groups

  • Viewing the Tasks Executed by an Agent Group

  • Working with Agent Groups

  • Agent Group Attributes

• Centralized Agent Upgrade (CAU)

• Upgrade History

• Assigning Clients to Agents

Packs: You can install packs as an optional set of functions that range from modifying windows services up to complex workflow templates.

More information:

• About Actions, Packs and Plug-ins
• Packs in the Administration Perspective

Other: You can also access your object queues to check the settings and status of the objects, check the quarantined messages before taking any action, or check your Service Level Objectives.

More information:

• Queues
• Quarantine
• Service Level Objectives (SLO)

See also:

• Configuring Automic Automation
• Managing your Automic Automation System
• Administration Perspective