What Happens to Running Jobs When an Agent is Cycled?

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

When an agent is stopped and then restarted, what happens to WAAE jobs that were running on the agent at the time it was stopped?

Environment

Release: ATSYHA99000-11.3.6-Workload Automation AE-High Availability Option
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Resolution

There are two agent-side configuration parameters that determine what happens to running WAAE jobs when the agent is stopped and then restarted.

oscomponent.noguardianprocess=[true/false]

When this parameter is set to 'true', the agent does not continue monitoring jobs that were running at the time it was shut down. In WAAE, the jobs will go to FAILURE status as soon as the agent is restarted. The CHANGE_STATUS event for the failure will contain the message "<lost control>".  This occurs regardless of whether a job completed while the agent was down, or is still running on the agent machine after the agent is restarted.

When this parameter is set to 'false', the agent will continue to monitor jobs that were running at the time it was shut down. In WAAE, jobs that completed while the agent was down will have their completion status posted as soon as the agent is restarted. Jobs that are still running on the agent machine will have their status updated normally when the job completes. This is the default setting for the agent if the parameter is not explicitly set in the agentparm.txt file.

persistence.coldstart=[true/false]

When this parameter is set to 'true', the agent's database is cleaned out on restart. Therefore, the records of running jobs are no longer present and it no longer monitors the jobs. In WAAE, the jobs will go to FAILURE in the same manner as they do when the oscomponent.noguardianprocess parameter is set to 'true'. Also, when set 'true', the oscomponent.noguardianprocess parameter is ignored.

When this parameter is set to 'false', the oscomponent.noguardianprocess value determines the behavior of running jobs when the agent is cycled. This is the default setting for the agent if the parameter is not explicitly set in the agentparm.txt file.