Automic Workload Automation

I have a questions about a file event that has a PREP_PROCESS script that gets kicked off when the event sees a file its checking for... The issue is that because I'm using the PREP_PROCESS its writing out a temp file to the same directory the event is checking for files... That's a problem because the event is picking up any file that gets written to that directory so it picks up (or attempts ) to pick the temp file up... ... but by the time the JOBF gets kicked off the temp file is gone so the JOBF object fails..

I opened a ticket with Automic and they said to post it in the community to see how others are handling this situation...They said I could update the location of the temp file by updating  EVENT.UNIXCMD  in client 0 ...has anybody done that? Any gotchas? concerns updating that? thanks

I haven't for this specific scenario but have modified those events. My recommendation is duplicate the EVENT.UNIXCMD and rename it for testing. In the actual PREP_PROCESS script you can add the name of the new EVENT.

Example of the change:

:SET &HND# = PREP_PROCESS("UNIX01","UNIXCMD.NEW.OUTPUT",,"CMD=netstat -an | grep 2400","UC_LOGIN=LOGIN.UNIX")

Or something along those lines.

As far as the content of the eventfile it looks fairly easy to modify the location of the file.

Mike,, you got an example of modifying the file location?  I don't want to modify the location of the file the event is looking for.... just the temp file that automic is writing out to that same directory.. that make sense?

I have not attempted that specifically but have modified the event for windows is the past . I was more suggesting a way to modify the event in client 0 so that there is no impact to other PREP_PROCESS jobs while testing

This should help you a bit:

https://community.automic.com/discussion/8844/prep-process-ends-up-in-a-no-such-file-or-directory-error-if-the-os-command-returns-rc-0

BTW: you can create your own tailormade EVENT.UNIXCMD in your client.

cheers, Wolfgang

I think this technical article can help much on this topic:

How does the PREP_PROCESS script function work and how can it be customized?</p>