How to configure the agent to connect with another scheduling manager

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

Need to change a Remote Autosys Agent PROD instance on a DEV server to a Remote DEV Autosys instance

• Can I just change the configure files, or?
• Do I have to uninstall the prod instance and install the DEV instance?

Environment

Workload Automation System Agent

Resolution

In order to point the agent to another scheduling manager, you must either

1. Add the manager definition to the agentparm.txt file and comment out the old manager definition if it will no longer be used.
2. Update the existing manager definition if you will no longer need to point to the old manager.

The parameters of concern are:
communication.managerid_1=
communication.manageraddress_1=
communication.managerport_1=

Example:
communication.managerid_1=ESP_TEST1245_6500
communication.manageraddress_1=TEST1245.example.com
communication.managerport_1=6507

Additional Information

Review https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/intelligent-automation/workload-automation-system-agent/11-5/reference/ca-wa-agent-for-unix-linux-windows-or-iseries-agent-parameters.html for listing of available agent parameters.