Distributed workload environment with dynamic scheduling capabilities

Use this configuration to run workload dynamically across your distributed network.

The run time environment is used
to:  
    

  • Run on the agent job types with advanced options, both those supplied
with the product and the additional types implemented through the
custom plug-ins.
    • 

  • Enable the capability to remotely run, from the agent, the dynamic workload broker resource
command on the server.
    • 

For information about dynamic scheduling, how to run application
job plug-ins and the dynamic workload broker resource command on the
server, see HCL Workload Automation:
Scheduling Workload Dynamically.
In this configuration,
you can choose whether or not to add the run time environment for Java™ jobs to the agent. 


Distributed workload environment
with dynamic scheduling capabilities shows the
system resources required to install a fully working HCL Workload Automation environment
for running your distributed workload dynamically.  
Note: A
dynamic agent can be directly connected to its master domain manager
or through a dynamic domain manager as
shown in Distributed workload environment with static and dynamic scheduling capabilities.
In more complex network topologies where the master domain manager or
the dynamic domain manager cannot
directly communicate with the dynamic agent,
you can configure your dynamic agents to use a local or remote gateway.
For more information about the gateway parameters specified when installing
a dynamic agent,
see Agent installation parameters - twsinst script. For more information
about the gateway parameters specified when installing a dynamic agent,
see Agent installation parameters - twsinst script. 
For more information about gateway configuration,
see Configuring dynamic agent communications through a gateway in the
network communications information in the Administration Guide.


 
Figure 1. Distributed workload environment
with dynamic scheduling capabilities


Distributed workload environment with dynamic scheduling capabilities




Dynamic
scheduling supports most of the HCL Workload Automation features
for static scheduling. The Features partially or not supported for dynamic scheduling lists
some features or properties that are partially or not supported.
Table 1. Features partially or not supported for dynamic scheduling
       

        Feature 
        agent and HCL Workload Automation for Z agent
       

      
       

        Event-driven workload automation.
Note:  For more details
          about the events type, see HCL Workload Automation User's Guide and
           Reference: Appendixes - Event-driven workload automation event and action
           definitions

        
         TivoliWorkloadSchedulerObjectMonitor events supported. 
       

       

        FileMonitor events supported, except for IBM i systems.
       

       

        TivoliWorkloadSchedulerApplicationMonitor events not
         supported.
       

       

        Utility commands (datecalc, jobinfo, and so on).
        Not supported.