Difference between CommandExecute policy versus AutoSysCommandISponsorFilters.txt

Products

• EMBEDDED ENTITLEMENTS MGR
• CA Workload Automation AE - Business Agents (AutoSys)
• CA Workload Automation AE - Scheduler (AutoSys)
• CA Workload Automation Agent

Issue/Introduction

What is the difference between CommandExecute policy in EEM versus usage of AutoSysCommandISponsorFilters.txt

Environment

Release: WAAGTA99000-11.4-Workload Automation-Agent AE-MSP
Component:

Resolution

The difference between the CommandExecute policy versus AutoSysCommandISponsorFilters.txt is that when you adapt the AutoSysCommandISponsorFilters.txt file that this counts for everyone.
When using CommandExecute policy you can restrict commands and also to certain users.

For example if you want to allow user 'user1' to execute 'autoflags -a' command and also 'autorep -J'  but no other commands.
This can be done by specifying following resource in the CommandExecute policy.
 

server/ACE/autoflags -a
server/ACE/autorep -J [^;]+$

Select 'Execute' as action'.
Turn on the flag 'Treat resource names as regular expressions'.

If you specify

server/ACE/autorep [^;]+$

then all options of autorep are allowed.