Triggering process on Windows server remotely without an agent

Products

• Autosys Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Is it possible to use Autosys to trigger a process (in this case a Powershell script) on a Windows server, if there is no Autosys Agent installed on that server?

Environment

Release : 11.3.6

Component :

Resolution

Unfortunately, no you cannot execute a remote process on a windows host unless that specific windows host has an agent on it.  

There is a job type called PROXY but it cannot be used against a windows remote host, only UNIX , HP Integrity NonStop, and OpenVMS.

Details on the proxy job can be found here:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/intelligent-automation/autosys-workload-automation/12-0-01/scheduling/ae-scheduling/remote-execution-jobs-overview/define-a-remote-execution-job.html

And here you can find a list of the other job types.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/intelligent-automation/autosys-workload-automation/12-0-01/reference/ae-job-information-language/jil-job-definitions/job-type-attribute-specify-job-type.html