Hold workloads for ESP agents

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Normally, during a patching cycle, currently HOLD an ESP class and then RELEASE the class when the patching cycle completes.

Are there other ways to release some of the workload but keep others from running?

Environment

Release:  ALL

Component: ESP Workload Automation, Workload Automation System Agent

Resolution

Applicable scenarios for possible solutions:

- Quiesce the agent:
It's the easiest if a particular server is problematic. Only negative impact is, the COMMQ file usage can increase since the requests will be queued up in it.

- Create one resource for every agent, and make the resource as not available when it needs the maintenance:
It will not impact the COMMQ file usage since the agent wobs will stay in RESWAIT status. Note: Can use AGENT_MON with AMNOTIFY to automatically set the agent resource as not available when it becomes INACTIVE.

- Use more EVENT CLASSes or HOLD events:
This can be done when the agent wobs for the particular agent are in separate events. If they are among many events while wobs for other agents are also defined, then neither of the two methods can help.