Informatica Agent ends with pmcmd.exe.exe path error

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

A freshly installed Informatica Agent will not start. The log only states that the Agent ended abnormally, and a forced trace is created with the following error:

java.lang.RuntimeException: pmcmd.exe.exe command does not exist under path \\<HostName>\Informatica\9.5.1\server\bin
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedConstructor.invoke(CachedConstructor.java:77)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.ConstructorSite$ConstructorSiteNoUnwrapNoCoerce.callConstructor(ConstructorSite.java:102)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCallConstructor(CallSiteArray.java:52)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callConstructor(AbstractCallSite.java:190)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callConstructor(AbstractCallSite.java:198)
    at InformaticaAgentImpl.agentInitialization(InformaticaAgent.groovy:146)
    at com.uc4.ex.cit.UCXJCITX.initAgent(UCXJCITX.java:343)
    at com.uc4.ex.cit.UCXJCITX$1.call(UCXJCITX.java:232)
    at com.uc4.ex.cit.UCXJCITX$1.call(UCXJCITX.java:229)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Environment

Release: AOMINA99000-5.0-Automic-Operations Manager-Informatica Agent
Component:

Cause

The Informatica Agent needs to be placed on the Informatica server.

Resolution

Install the Informatica Agent on the Informatica server instead of the Automic Workload Automation server.