Workload Management Solutions: Computer Associates

Company: Computer Associates
One Computer Associates Plaza
Islandia, NY 11788-7000
Telephone: 516-342-6000

Product Name: CA-Unicenter for Solaris

Product Description: CA-Unicenter's Workload management facility determines specifically which jobs must be performed on each system on a given day. It uses job and job set profiles, work load sequencing information, job and file dependencies, processing requirements and business priorities for jobs as criteria for building the daily workload.

CA-Unicenter offers two types of scheduling for production workloads: Calendar and Event-Based Scheduling. Used together or separately, these methods offer full scheduling flexibility. Calendar scheduling enables systems managers to define when a job will run and reflects the way most production jobs are actually scheduled.. Event-based scheduling runs pre-defined work loads when dynamic events occur in the system. Examples of such events are a specific file update, a job start or terminate, or other user-defined events. User-defined events provide a powerful mechanism for allowing the running work load, or interactive users to generate their own events that trigger pre-defined job schedules.

CA-Unicenter provides automatic recovery facilities that enable administrators to define specific actions that are to be performed in the event of an abnormal completion of a scheduled job, which can be used to significantly hasten job recovery and restart. A modeling and simulation facility helps you analyze the impact of changes in your system. Furthermore, the work load balancing component provides the ability to monitor and balance the load on a given node, and route units of work to the least busy eligible node participating in the network.

The report distribution component is the facility of CA-Unicenter that allows users to get only the pages of reports that they need, for different users to get different subsets of reports, and for reports to be delivered via printer or e-mail.

Solaris Support: Solaris 2.x

Availability: Worldwide

Language Support: US English