Adding/Editing/Deleting Automic Automation Schedulers

This topic explains how to add, configure, view, edit and delete a scheduler for Automic Automation. You have to add a new Automic Automation scheduler for each Automic Automation Client that you want to integrate into your AAI environment. This topic also explains how to view, edit and delete and Automic Automation scheduler.

You can add Automic Automation schedulers before installing the Automic Automation Connector. However, you will not be able to use them until the Connector is up and running. For more information, see AAI Integration for Automic Automation.

This page includes the following:

Adding a Scheduler

Automic Automation schedulers can only be created through the Web UI.

  1. Go to System and click the Add Scheduler button.

  2. Enter a descriptive Name that the people who will work with the data from this scheduler can easily recognize. The name must be unique in your system. The dialog to configure the scheduler is displayed.

  3. Specify the following parameters:

    • If there is an Automic Automation connector registered it is listed in the Connector dropdown list below.

    • Default Time Zone

      Time zone in which the Automic Automation instance is located. For example, if an AAI installation in New York monitors an Automic Automation system in Vienna, the default time zone is Vienna's.

    • Automic System Name

      Name of the Automic system.

    • Automic Client ID

      Automic Automation Client number.

    • Automic REST API Endpoint (URL)

      Address of the server

      Format:http(s)://{host}:{port}/ae/api/{version}

      Example

      http://<AutomicServer>:8088/ae/api/v1

    • Automic REST API User

      ID of the Automic REST API user. Optionally, you can use the User ID and Department. The Automic REST API user must have read and execution access withtin Automic Automation.

      Example AUTOMIC/AUTOMIC

    • Automic REST API Password

      Password of the Automic REST API user.

    • Automic Web Interface (URL)

      URL to reach the Automic Web Interface.

      Example

      http://<AutomicServer>:8080/awi/

    • Job Definition Refresh Times

      Select the times at which AAI should refresh the job definitions.

      Default: Once a day

      Note:

      You can change the default value, but take into account that refreshing the job definitions can be a time consuming task. All of the job definitions are read from Automic Automation and compared with the definitions in AAI.

      Typically, in a production environment, job definitions are relatively static so once or twice a day is sufficient.

    • Activate Debug Log Automic Payloads to write the REST requests and responses from the Automation Engineto the log file in JSON format.

    • Projected Start Time Period (days)

      How far forward the connector should look for planned start times.

    • Historical Data Initial Load Period (days)

      How far back the connector should look the first time it fetches information.

      Default: One day

    • Event Polling Interval (seconds)

      Specific event polling interval for a particular scheduler.

    • Automic API Read Timeout (seconds)

      Timeout for AE REST API calls.

      Default: 600 seconds

    • Job Definition Retry Delay (seconds)

      Period of time after which the REST API retries to fetch object definitions if a previous attempt failed.

      Default: 60 seconds

  4. Click Save Changes. The new scheduler is added to the list of already connected systems. Initially, its status is In Progress until the scheduler is completely connected to AAI.

Viewing a Scheduler

Click and existing scheduler in the list. The dialog that is displayed provides the scheduler configuration data as you entered when adding it. You cannot edit anything here. For details about each field, see the Adding a Scheduler section above.

Editing a Scheduler

  1. Click the scheduler that you want to modify and click Edit on the dialog that is displayed.

  2. The resulting dialog provides the scheduler configuration data in two tabs, Monitoring Details and Connection Configuration, as you entered them when you added it. For details about each field, see Adding a Scheduler above.

  3. Click the Edit button at the top of this dialog to make the fields editable, then make your changes and save them.

Deleting a Scheduler

  1. In the Schedulers list select the scheduler that you want to delete.

  2. Click Delete on the dialog that is displayed.

See also:

Schedulers