Passing values to Escalation Notification

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

Affects Release version(s): 6.00A

Passing values to Escalation Notification

Environment

Release:
Component: AAUTEN

Resolution

Detailed Description and Symptoms

When a Call Operator is rejected and becomes escalated another Call Operator is run. This will pick up the information from the previous Call Operator but not from the task that kicked off the first Call Operator.

 
Solution

Use GET_PARENT_* and GET_OBJECT_* scripting statements to get the parent of the parent of the escalated notification. If I have a job that fails and I have it send me a notification which, if not accepted or rejected after 5 minutes sends an escalation notification, I would use the following (Please note, there was an error with the STATE and RETCODE lines below before upgrading to hotfix 8.00A105-301 for Automation Engine and Database):

 

!Get parent run number:

:set &parentnr# = SYS_ACT_PARENT_NR('ACT')

:P "Parent number (number of CALL.NOTIFICATION) is &parentnr#"

!Get Name of the parent of Parent number

:SET &UC_CAUSE_NAME# = GET_PARENT_NAME(&parentnr#, 'ACT')

:P "Parent name of CALL.NOTIFICATION is &UC_CAUSE_NAME#"

!Get the run number of the parent of Parent number

:SET &UC_CAUSE_NR# = GET_PARENT_NR(&parentnr#, 'ACT')

:P "Run number of &UC_CAUSE_NAME# = &UC_CAUSE_NR#"

!Get Object type of UC_CAUSE_NAME

:SET &OBJECT_TYPE# = GET_OBJECT_TYPE(&UC_CAUSE_NAME#)

:P "&UC_CAUSE_NAME# is a &OBJECT_TYPE# object."

!Get the Status of UC_CAUSE_NR

:SET &UC_CAUSE_STATE# = GET_UC_OBJECT_STATUS(&OBJECT_TYPE#,&UC_CAUSE_NR#,"STATUS")

:P "The status of &UC_CAUSE_NAME# (Run number &UC_CAUSE_NR#) is &UC_CAUSE_STATE#"

!Get the retcode of UC_CAUSE_NR

:SET &UC_CAUSE_RETCODE# = GET_UC_OBJECT_STATUS(&OBJECT_TYPE#,&UC_CAUSE_NR#,"RETCODE")

:P "The retcode of &UC_CAUSE_NAME# (Run number &UC_CAUSE_NR#) is &UC_CAUSE_RETCODE#"