AutoSys Workload Automation

We have a requirement where the agent will be installed in a secured zone, where all sessions must be initiated from inside the zone.  Thus the workload manger (AE in our case) cannot open the communications to the agent, the agent must initiate the session and then the manager can send it info (such as job requests).  We know this will add latency to the job execution, but it is what it is.  So anybody created a agent polling the manager configuration?

Thanks, Andrew

The whole point of the new paradigm is so that the Autosys polls to make sure the agent is viable to run a job and if not put's it offline.

Then do not put an agent in the secure zone. 

All i can say. 

Steve C.

For whatever it's worth, Andrew -

I believe that's the way CA-7 agents work (at least the old agents).  The agents initiate the session with CA-7 and not the other way around.

- Don

There is not a way to configure an agent to do this with AE. Requests from the Scheduler or Application server will always have to come from a session opened by the manager.

Scott

This is what we suspected.  We will create a "polling" mechanism ourselves with an agent on the outside of the zone.

Scott

This would be correct as the new standard is to use the native agent/manager communication 7520/7500/9000 so different ports and hence different sessions, BUT if we use SSA we effectively mux these ports onto a single port 7136.

This then means that either end of the tunnel could open the connection, which would let the data travel in both directions for the different agent/manager "sessions", and thus our agent end could open the connection? and if so what would trigger the agent end of the SSA pipe to open a connection?

Regards, Andrew