File watcher job fail with "lost control"

Products

• CA Workload Automation AE - Business Agents (AutoSys)
• CA Workload Automation AE - Scheduler (AutoSys)
• Workload Automation Agent

Issue/Introduction

Introduction: 

I saw in my scheduler log the message: Lost Control  What does this mean?

 

Question: 

Have couple file watcher jobs failed with lost control. What would that mean? 

 

Job Name Last Start Last End ST Run/Ntry Pri/Xit 

________________________________________________________________ ____________________ ____________________ __ ________ _______ 

MYJOB 03/05/2016 04:31:06 03/06/2016 04:50:32 FA 18668270/1 1 

 

Status/[Event] Time Ntry ES ProcessTime Machine 

-------------- --------------------- -- -- --------------------- ---------------------------------------- 

FAILURE 03/06/2016 04:50:32 1 PD 03/06/2016 04:50:33 

<Lost control> 

[*** ALARM ***] 

JOBFAILURE 03/06/2016 04:50:33 1 PD 03/06/2016 04:50:33 mysite.com

 

Environment:  

System Agent 11.3.x

Opsys: ALL

 

Answer: 

"Lost control" status normally occur when agent was stopped while job runs. You could prevent this status to occur by adding the following parameter in agentparm.txt: oscomponent.noguardianprocess=false

 

Environment

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