Defining Clients
Defining, configuring and managing Clients are crucial administrative tasks. Each Client represents a distinct environment that isolates Users, processes, and settings according to your organizational structure. As an administrator, you manage Clients exclusively from Client 0, where you add, edit, activate, deactivate, and delete Clients. Clients can be created either through the Process Assembly or the Administration perspective. Once created, a Client is moved to its own dedicated operational environment.
Additionally, administrators assigned to specific Clients can edit their Client definitions. These Client objects are stored in the <No Folder> directory within the Process Assembly perspective.
Defining the Client
A Client definition consists of the following pages:
- Standard pages that are always available regardless of the object type you are defining:
- The object-specific page described here.
To Define the Client Attributes
Specify the following:
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TimeZone
Select the time zone object to apply to all tasks processed in this Client that do not have a specific time zone defined. If left blank, the Automation Engine’s default UTC time zone is used. For more information, see Time Zone (TZ).
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Monitoring
Enable SNMP monitoring for this Client by selecting the corresponding checkbox. For more information, see SNMP Support.
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Additional info
Provide any relevant text related to MIB monitoring.
To Define the Client Settings
Automic Automation provides predefined Client variables (VARA objects) that you use to configure the Client's behavior. You add the variables and specify the Key/Value that you want to apply to the Client in the Client Setting table.
For a list with detailed descriptions of the available Client settings, see UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS - Various Client Settings.
Note: When a Client is created, the UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS variable is automatically created for it, and the Client inherits the values defined in Client 0's UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS if its own is unmodified; however, once a key is added or a value is modified in the production Client's UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS, the Client 0 settings no longer apply.
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