WA Autosys: How to update WA agent with new manager information after changing scheduler roles?

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

When switching or changing scheduler roles the WA Agent may need to be updated. 

Environment

Release : 11.3.x/12.x

Component : CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys)

Cause

When the Primary scheduler is shutdown and Shadow is made primary the WA Agents may not respond to current (new) Primary server.

Resolution

Run autoping from the new Scheduler.  This will update agentparm.txt file of the with the new manager information.

E.g.

autoping -m ALL -S

Additional Information

See this documentation link for more details on autoping.