Tidal Workload Automation Tutorial Guide for Windows - Cisco

Tidal Workload Automation

Tutorial Guide for Microsoft

Windows

Version 6.2.2

First Published: August 2018



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Contents

Preface ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Audience ................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Related Documentation............................................................................................................................................................ 8

Enterprise Scheduler Concepts .................................................................................................................................................... 9

Overview .................................................................................................................................................................................. 9

System Configurations ............................................................................................................................................................. 9

Masters ................................................................................................................................................................................. 9

Client Manager .................................................................................................................................................................. 10

Agents ................................................................................................................................................................................ 10

Job Definition ........................................................................................................................................................................ 10

Job Hierarchy ......................................................................................................................................................................... 11

Dependencies ..................................................................................................................................................................... 11

Calendars ........................................................................................................................................................................... 12

Job Instances ...................................................................................................................................................................... 13

Production Schedule .......................................................................................................................................................... 13

Master Status Display ........................................................................................................................................................ 13

Events and Actions ............................................................................................................................................................ 13

Queues ............................................................................................................................................................................... 14

Security Policies ................................................................................................................................................................ 15

Logs and Reports ............................................................................................................................................................... 16

Understanding Offset Concepts ................................................................................................................................................... 1

Overview .................................................................................................................................................................................. 1

Defining a Production Day ...................................................................................................................................................... 2

Positive Offset (Late Start) .................................................................................................................................................. 2

Negative Offset (Early Start) ............................................................................................................................................... 2

Scheduling Based on Agent Time Zone .................................................................................................................................. 3

Using a Positive Production Day Offset .................................................................................................................................. 4

Agent Running Ahead of the Master ................................................................................................................................... 4

Agent Running Behind the Master ...................................................................................................................................... 6

Using a Negative Production Day Offset................................................................................................................................. 6

Agent Running Ahead of the Master ................................................................................................................................... 6

Agent Running Behind the Master ...................................................................................................................................... 7

Defining a Compile Offset ....................................................................................................................................................... 7

Sysval 150................................................................................................................................................................................. 8

Creating Your First Job................................................................................................................................................................ 9

Overview .................................................................................................................................................................................. 9

Launching the Tidal Web client ........................................................................................................................................... 9

Setting Default Job Parameters ............................................................................................................................................ 9

Creating the Report Job Definition .................................................................................................................................... 10

Job Activity Pane ............................................................................................................................................................... 11

Adding Your Job to the Production Schedule........................................................................................................................ 12

Monitoring Your Job ............................................................................................................................................................. 12

Job Output Options ................................................................................................................................................................ 13

Specifying the Disposition of Job Output .......................................................................................................................... 13

Viewing Job Output ........................................................................................................................................................... 13

Using Scheduler Calendars ........................................................................................................................................................ 15

Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................ 15

Building the First Workday Calendar .................................................................................................................................... 15

Building the Work Day Calendar .......................................................................................................................................... 17

Building the Fiscal Week End Calendar ................................................................................................................................ 17

Alternate Method of Creating a Calendar .............................................................................................................................. 18

Building the Quarter End Calendars ...................................................................................................................................... 19

Fiscal Quarter End ............................................................................................................................................................. 19

Calendar Quarter End ........................................................................................................................................................ 20

Scheduling the Report Job with a Calendar ........................................................................................................................... 20

Setting Up a Job Dependency .................................................................................................................................................... 23

Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................ 23

Defining a Job for Operator Release ...................................................................................................................................... 24

Setting the Require Operator Release Option .................................................................................................................... 24

Adding a Job with a Dependency ...................................................................................................................................... 25

Monitoring Your Jobs ............................................................................................................................................................ 25

Viewing Dependencies from the Job Activity Pane .......................................................................................................... 26

Releasing the Jobs .................................................................................................................................................................. 26

Scheduling Jobs in Groups ........................................................................................................................................................ 29

Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................ 29

Job Group Hierarchy .............................................................................................................................................................. 30

Job Group Scheduling ............................................................................................................................................................ 30

Adding a Job Group ............................................................................................................................................................... 30

Creating Jobs that Belong to a Job Group ............................................................................................................................. 31

Creating the Ap31 Child Job ............................................................................................................................................. 31

Creating the Ap32 Child Job with a Dependency .............................................................................................................. 32

Scheduling the Job Group ...................................................................................................................................................... 33

Scheduling a Job that Depends on a Group ........................................................................................................................... 34

Adding a Job Group Dependency .......................................................................................................................................... 34

Releasing a Job Group ........................................................................................................................................................... 34

Creating a File Dependency ....................................................................................................................................................... 37

Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................ 37

Creating a Job with a File Dependency ................................................................................................................................. 38

Viewing the Job in Production........................................................................................................................................... 38

Creating a File to Satisfy the Dependency ......................................................................................................................... 39

Monitoring the Job in Production ...................................................................................................................................... 39

Detecting Job Event Conditions ................................................................................................................................................ 41

Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................ 41

Understanding Actions .......................................................................................................................................................... 41

Creating an Alert Action .................................................................................................................................................... 42

Associating the Action to the Job ...................................................................................................................................... 43

Changing the edi.bat file to Fail......................................................................................................................................... 44

Changing the Status of the Alert ........................................................................................................................................ 44

Creating Variable Dependencies ............................................................................................................................................... 45

Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................ 45

Creating a Variable ................................................................................................................................................................ 45

Creating the Variable Update Action ..................................................................................................................................... 46

Creating a Job Event for the Gather Report Job .................................................................................................................... 46

Creating the Gather Orders Job Group .................................................................................................................................. 46

Creating a Repeating Job and Associating a Job Event ......................................................................................................... 47

Creating a Job Dependent on the Gather Orders Variable ..................................................................................................... 48

Scheduling and Monitoring the Gather Orders Jobs .............................................................................................................. 48

Managing Jobs in the Production Schedule ............................................................................................................................... 51

Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................ 51

Creating the Parent Job Group ............................................................................................................................................... 51

Creating Three Child Jobs ..................................................................................................................................................... 52

Viewing the Jobs in the Job Activity Pane ........................................................................................................................ 53

Job Sorting .......................................................................................................................................................................... 53

Removing a Job from the Production Schedule ................................................................................................................. 53

Inserting a Job Into the Production Schedule .................................................................................................................... 53

Canceling a Job in the Production Schedule ...................................................................................................................... 54

Placing a Job on Hold ........................................................................................................................................................ 54

Removing the Job Out of Held Status................................................................................................................................ 55

Overriding a Dependency .................................................................................................................................................. 55

Estimated and Excessive Durations ....................................................................................................................................... 55

Managing Command Parameters ............................................................................................................................................... 57

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