Autosys r12 Client and Agent binary

Products

• Autosys Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

The Autosys r12 installer has just one ISO (per platform that is) image for all the components which is around 1.5GB. The challenge is in distributing the Client and Agent installation package (for install through SCOM/Ansible/Git) across the environment with it.

With earlier versions (11.3.6 SP8) it is easy to create a silent install package using the Client and Agent ISO and distribute it. However, With R12, it seems every client host gets a copy of the all-in-one DVD image. This is a bit risky because the users might end up misusing the ISO by installing the server components. Also, the installer image size has doubled from 700MB to 1.5GB now which is a concern for the system administrator to publish across the client hosts.

Environment

Release: 12.0 and 12.1

Component: Autosys Workload Automation

Resolution

The installer script can be executed by removing the EEM, ERU, WCC(WebComponent), and other unwanted modules from the ISO.

This should help reduce the overall ISO size. And mitigate the risk of application teams getting a copy of the server binary.

Here is the directory structure from Autosys r12.1 media:

.:
total 84907
dr-xr-xr-x. 12 root root     2048 Nov 30 07:33 modules
dr-xr-xr-x.  3 root root     2048 Nov 30 07:33 .
-r-xr-xr-x.  1 root root      158 Nov 30 07:33 acknowledgements.txt
-r-xr-xr-x.  1 root root    13360 Nov 30 07:33 EULA.txt
-r-xr-xr-x.  1 root root    39397 Nov 30 07:33 VendorEULA.txt
-r-xr-xr-x.  1 root root       36 Nov 30 07:32 version.txt
-r-xr-xr-x.  1 root root 86886112 Nov 30 07:32 install.bin
dr-xr-xr-x. 17 root root      224 Dec  1  2019 ..

./modules:
total 30
dr-xr-xr-x. 12 root root 2048 Nov 30 07:33 .
dr-xr-xr-x.  2 root root 2048 Nov 30 07:33 C3UninstallScript
dr-xr-xr-x.  3 root root 2048 Nov 30 07:33 CAPKI
dr-xr-xr-x.  2 root root 2048 Nov 30 07:33 CCI
dr-xr-xr-x.  3 root root 2048 Nov 30 07:33 ..
dr-xr-xr-x.  2 root root 2048 Nov 30 07:33 ERU
dr-xr-xr-x.  2 root root 2048 Nov 30 07:33 SSA
dr-xr-xr-x.  2 root root 2048 Nov 30 07:32 EEM
dr-xr-xr-x.  2 root root 2048 Nov 30 07:32 Agent
dr-xr-xr-x.  2 root root 2048 Nov 30 07:32 WebComponent
dr-xr-xr-x.  2 root root 2048 Nov 30 07:32 CommonCpp
dr-xr-xr-x.  2 root root 8192 Nov 30 07:32 JARS

Delete the directories under modules which are not needed to be installed on the client machines and execute the installer script.