The article looks at the Autosys commands entered at a Unix command prompt. The most commonly used commands are listed below. Autosys can be installed in Unix and in NT. When installed in NT, the commands listed below are typically available through the AutoConsole graphical user interface (GUI) as buttons or menu items.

Autosys
Description

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wildcard for autorep commands

Status Commands

autorep –j pfiw9999%
shows a brief job information for jobs starting with pfiw9999

autorep –j pfiw9999 -d
show detailed status history for job pfiw9999

autorep –j pfiw%
shows status of all jobs starting with pfiw

Job Scheduling and other Information

autorep –j pfiw9999% …

AutoSys Machines
From a hardware perspective, the AutoSys architecture is composed of two types of machines, attached to a network -
Server Machine
The AutoSys server is the machine on which the event processor, the event server (database), or both, reside. In a basic configuration, both the event processor and the event server reside on the same machine.
Client Machine
The AutoSys client is the machine on which the remote agent software resides, and where AutoSys jobs are to be run. A remote agent must be installed on the server machine, and it can also …

The following are the main AutoSys system components:

Event server (AutoSys database)
Event processor
Remote agent

Event Server
The event server or AutoSys database (the RDBMS) is the data repository for all system information and events as well as all job, monitor, and report definitions. Event server refers to the database where all the AutoSys information, events, and job definitions are stored. Occasionally, the database is called a data server, which actually describes a server instance. That is, it is either a UNIX or Windows process, and it is associated data space (or raw disk …

In this series of articles, we take a look at AutoSys. AutoSys is an automated job control system for scheduling, monitoring, and reporting. In simpler terms, it is a workload automation tool. These jobs can reside on any AutoSys-configured machine that is attached to a network. An AutoSys job is any single command, executable, script, or Windows batch file. Each AutoSys job definition contains a variety of qualifying attributes, including the conditions specifying when and where a job should be run. As with most control systems, there are many ways …