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Properties: Host Group

Properties for a selected Host Groups are defined with the following fields.

Operators Autorecovery

Specifies whether to automate recovery. Recovery applies to operators that fail with a SYSTEM_ERROR and whose recoverable processes are in BLOCKED, RUNNING, or WAITING state when the recovery is triggered. When automatic recovery in configured and the previously inactive host group becomes active, recovery processing is done. Affected operators begin running on the specified remote host referenced by this host group and their processes continue execution.

Values:

• Inherit from Environment - same setting as for Environment.
• True - Automates recovery.
• False - Prevents automated recovery.

Default: Inherit from Environment

Touchpoint Security

Specifies whether to inherit the value for Touchpoint Security configured in Environment properties, or set the value to true or false at the touchpoint level.

Values:

• Inherit from Environment - same setting as for Environment.
• Enabled - Enforce applicable policy that specifies users allowed to execute operators on the current target.
• Disabled - Do not verify whether the user running the process has execute rights on the current target.

Default: Inherit from Environment

SSH Keys Path

(Optional) Indicates the location on the agent host where the private key file is stored. CA Process Automation accesses this location for the private key required when connecting to a remote host through SSH public key authentication. For example:

If the agent host has a Windows operating system, enter:

C:\PAM\SshKeys

If the agent host has a UNIX or Linux operating system, enter:

/home/PAM/Sshkeys

Important! Create the target path on the agent host.

Remote IP Address Patterns

Specifies any combination of the following, where IP addresses are static rather than dynamic. Click Add to create each row.

• A list of IPv4 IP addresses.
• One or more IPv4 subnets using CIDR notation.

Remote Host Name Patterns

Specifies a group of remote hosts with a list of fully qualified domain names (FQDN) or regular expression patterns for a subdomain. Select Add to create a row for each pattern entry.

For example:

• abc\.mycompany\.com
• .*pam-lnx\.mycompany\.com$

  This pattern matches any hostname that ends in pam-lnx in your company domain, where mycompany is replaced with your company name.

• ^machine1\.mycompany\.com$

  Specifically, ^machine1\.mycompany\.com$ expresses a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) as a regular expression. This pattern matches only the FQDN that meets all of these criteria:

  starts with machine1.

  ends with com.

  contains machine1, then a dot, then mycompany, then a dot, and then com.

Remote User Name

Specifies the user name to assign to the user account on each remote host referenced by the host group. This name is used to connect to the SSH Daemon on the target remote host.

If you configure public key authentication, this value must be specified as the user-name in the command to generate key files.

Remote Password

The password associated with the Remote User Name. This same password must be defined in the user account defined on each host referenced by a given host group.

If using public key authentication with a passphrase, specify this value as the passphrase when creating the keys.

Maximum Number of Active SSH Connections

Specify the maximum number of concurrent connections that can be open simultaneously on any remote host.

Note: When that number is reached, further tasks wait for the next available connection.

Operating system

Indicate the operating systems of the remote hosts. Select from the following:

• (Default) Windows Variant - Manages categories of operators for Microsoft Windows operating systems such as Windows Server 2008.
• UNIX Variant - Manages categories of operators for operating systems such as Solaris and Linux.