Introduction: 

Monitor Event Processor failover with WCC alerts.

Background:  

We can setup alert policies for failovers or get an alert on WCC monitoring tab when scheduler shuts down.

Environment:  

CA WAAE 11.3.*

CA WCC 11.3.* and CA WCC 11.4

Instructions:

Create an Alert policy with the following alarms selected:

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This severity can be set as Critical

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Now kill the event_demon process to simulate a failover

ps -ef |grep event

autosys 65141 1 1 Mar23 ? 04:06:58 event_demon -A PRD

kill -9 65141

Run chk_auto_up to verify that the scheduler is not running

$ chk_auto_up

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CAUAJM_I_50054 Attempting (1) to Connect with Database: orcl.ca.com

CAUAJM_I_50055 *** Have Connected successfully with Database: orcl.ca.com. ***

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CAUAJM_I_50128 Connected with Event Server: orcl.ca.com

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CAUAJM_I_50054 Attempting (1) to Connect with Database: orcl1

CAUAJM_I_50055 *** Have Connected successfully with Database: orcl1. ***

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CAUAJM_I_50128 Connected with Event Server: orcl1

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CAUAJM_I_50038 Checking CA WAAE Primary Scheduler on Machine: <hostname>

CAUAJM_I_50039 No Scheduler is RUNNING on machine: <hostname>

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CAUAJM_I_50038 Checking CA WAAE Shadow Scheduler on Machine: <hostname 2>

CAUAJM_I_50045 Shadow Scheduler is RUNNING on machine: <hostname 2>

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CAUAJM_I_50038 Checking CA WAAE Tie-Breaker Scheduler on Machine: <hostname 3>

CAUAJM_I_50047 Tie-Breaker Scheduler is RUNNING on machine: <hostname 3>

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Check the event_demon log in shadow for EP roll over

[04/06/2015 17:04:37] CAUAJM_I_40245 EVENT: ALARM ALARM: EP_ROLLOVER

[04/06/2015 17:04:37] <CAUAJM_W_40310 The shadow scheduler has taken over. The system is no

longer in high availability mode.>

Now we can check for the alert in WCC dashboard

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We can expand the alert to see the details

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Release: ATSYHA99000-11.3.6-Workload Automation AE-High Availability Option
Component: