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Collect Information

Planning for your enterprise agent network consists of the following activities:

• Collect information about all the CA WA System Agents that you are defining including the following:
  • Operating environment type (Windows, UNIX, Linux, i5/OS, and so forth).
  • Agent name.
  • Agent IP Address or DNS Name.
  • Agent listening port number for communications from the CA WA CA 7 Edition tasks.
  • Is this installation a new installation or an upgrade from a UJMA agent?
• Collect information about all the CA WA CA 7 Edition tasks that are to communicate with agents including the following:
  • Scheduling Manager name.
    • We recommend that you identify the CA WA CA 7 Edition instance and the sysplex or location.
    • If you use SMF ID, and CA WA CA 7 Edition is initialized on a different LPAR, this usage is sometimes confusing to operators.
  • Scheduling Manager IP address/ DNS name.
  • Scheduling manager listening port number for communications from the agents.
• Determine whether agent plug-ins are required.

  Note: For more information about installing plug-ins, see the implementation guide for the appropriate plug-in.

  • CA Workload Automation Application Services Agent.
  • CA Workload Automation Agent for Databases.
  • CA Workload Automation Agent for Oracle E-Business Suite.
  • CA Workload Automation Agent for PeopleSoft.
  • CA Workload Automation Agent for SAP.
  • CA Workload Automation Agent for Web Services.
  • CA WA Agent for HP Nonstop.
  • CA WA Remote Execution Agent.

  Note: CA WA CA 7 Edition does not support jobs destined to the Micro-Focus agent plug-in.

• Collect information about the applications, such as environmental variables, that can execute on the agents and any related CA WA CA 7 Edition applications, jobs flows, jobs, and so forth.

Some users find it helpful to set up a table to list out the information. The table could list agent information in one section (CA WA CA 7 Edition needs this information). The table could list CA WA CA 7 Edition information in another section (the agents need this information). The appendix contains table samples. The format is only a suggestion, and you can tailor the tables to include columns you deem appropriate.

More information:

Planning Tables