Getting Started with Automic Automation

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 the following sections:

• Basics

  Introduces 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 replicate the examples 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 objects.

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

  Monitoring and analyzing your first Workflow and Schedule

Tip: This documentation contains a glossary that explains the most important terms you will need to understand to work with Automic Automation. See Key Terms.

Recommendation

Read the following topics 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

The Broadcom Software Academy provides a wide range of free online trainings. For information about how to navigate through the Academy and on how to register for courses, see Automic Automation Education and Training.

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

• Automic Automation Foundations

• Automic Automation - Overview

• Getting Started with the Automic Web Interface

• Automic Automation Introduction to Objects

Accelerated Learning with Hands-on Simulation Labs

Beyond the product documentation and courses, Broadcom offers a range of educational materials designed to guide you through Automic Automation's features and functions. Our interactive learning center is a dedicated platform offering immersive simulation labs to help you learn by doing. They are dynamic, hands-on exercises that complement the content of our courses. They don't just tell you how to use a feature; they let you experience it directly.

Visit the Broadcom's Simulation Labs website to explore the available labs and start practicing: https://simlabs.aod.broadcom.com/simulation/automation?product=Automic.

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