Monitoring Overview

Monitoring is a high-performance application that provides information about job status, alerts, and CA Workload Automation AE alarms. Monitoring provides the ability to view the enterprise by servers (workload automation server instances) or by user-defined business views.

Views can be created based on various criteria. Through creation of custom views, Monitoring provides the ability to monitor by exception across the enterprise. For example, users can create views that show failed jobs, running jobs, terminated or canceled jobs, or milestone jobs. Monitoring can also be used to monitor job streams by business relevance. Views can be created based on job name, box job name, application name, or group name. Additionally, views can be created based on other criteria such as owner, machine, status, job type, time zone, run machine, and started in the past number of days or hours. You can open a view and can see a summary by job status (each view has the status of the most critical job status within the view). A status for views by server status is also available letting you identify problems with server connectivity. For example, a valid status could be Connected Successfully. When you detect a problem in a particular view, such as a failure status, you can open the view to display more detailed analysis.

Alerts and CA Workload Automation AE alarms are reported In the Alerts table. Alerts are similar to CA Workload Automation AE alarms. Alerts can be created for CA Workload Automation AE servers, and are designed to reflect the requirements and operations of a particular enterprise. Alerts are created for each workload automation server accessed through CA WCC, and do not have to be the same across all the servers of a particular job manager. The information on the Alerts table can be filtered by one or more criteria, and the properties that are displayed can be modified and reordered. From the Alerts table, you can open, acknowledge, and close individual or multiple alerts and CA Workload Automation AE alarms.

The Summary tab displays a summary of the current view or server. This tab displays summary statistics on job status, alerts, and alarms. The Summary tab also contains a summary of the filters applied in the current view, and displays an overall summary of the status of the view or server, which are based on user-defined criteria. The overall status is also displayed in the Views table on the Dashboard tab. From this tab, you can monitor the status of jobs across the enterprise, and respond immediately if there is a change in status.