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Automate Services

An Automate service monitors system resources, provides an automatic alert when a resource reaches a critical level, and takes action when certain condition are met. You can define Automate services for an individual object, a collection of objects, or an aggregate function applied to object attributes. You can define Automate services for the following objects:

You can define the threshold condition for which CA SRM creates the Automate service as an EDL conditional expression. You can also combine conditions. When a resource reaches the threshold, CA SRM takes any of the following actions:

CA SRM executes the action you request for every object that meets the threshold criteria and executes it in the context of each object. You can also use parameters to pass information to the action that starts when a threshold is met. At execution time, CA SRM substitutes the formal parameters defined in the body of the message with data obtained from the network or the database.

For example, you can define an Automate service that monitors the amount of free storage space remaining on all volumes on a particular server. When free space on a volume drops below a level you specify, CA SRM can issue an alert or start a cleanup service for every affected volume.

You can test the threshold condition on information retrieved from the database or on information retrieved in real time from the network.

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