Meaning of U00011020 and job statuses in the log files

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine
• Automic SaaS
• CA Automic One Automation
• CA Automic Service Orchestration - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

What do the status letters such as 'R' and and 'E' represent in WPsrv_log_0*_00.txt files? 

For example, ' U00011020 'WIN01' is reporting job status 'R' for job 'TEST1' (RunID '123456789'). Job-status number: ' 0000000002' DB: ' 0000000001''

Environment

Release : 12.X, 21.X

Component : AUTOMATION ENGINE

Resolution

U00011020 represent job statuses executed by an agent, statuses are written in the logs as letters.

See the meaning of letters below: 

A - Status ended       Job ended with a return code that is not equal 0.
E - Status ended       Job ended with status ENDED_OK.
R - Status running     This status is written to the log file periodically while the job is being executed.
V - Status vanished   This status only occurs when the agent cannot find a job anymore that it has started
W - Status waiting      Job has not yet started and is in a waiting condition.