WA Agent: How to configure the Agent in order to run File Trigger jobs as an external process?

Products

• CA Workload Automation AE - Business Agents (AutoSys)
• CA Workload Automation AE - Scheduler (AutoSys)
• Workload Automation Agent
• DSERIES- SERVER
• CA Workload Automation DE - System Agent (dSeries)

Issue/Introduction

Workload Agent

By default, File Trigger jobs are run as a thread. How to configure the Agent to run File Trigger jobs as an external process?

Environment

WA Agent

Resolution

The solution is to set the following parameters in "agentparm.txt" file under the Agent installation directory:

filemonplugin.runexternal=true
oscomponent.default.user=user
oscomponent.default.password=password

You will need to restart the Agent for these parameters modification to be taken into account by

./cybAgent -s   to stop the agent followed by

./cybAgent -a  to restart the agent on Unix and Linux

On Windows restart the WA Agent Service.