CA Workload Automation Application Services Agent & CA Workload Automation Web Services Agent

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1 PRODUCT BRIEF: CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION APPLICATION SERVICES AGENT & CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION WEB SERVICES AGENT CA Workload Automation Application Services Agent & CA Workload Automation Web Services Agent SERVICE-ENABLING WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT MAKES BATCH WORKFLOWS A PRIORITY IN IT SERVICE DELIVERY, AND ULTIMATELY, A CORNERSTONE THAT SUPPORTS THE REAL-TIME ENTERPRISE. CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION APPLICATION SERVICES AGENT (CA WA APPLICATION SERVICES AGENT) AND CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION WEB SERVICES AGENT (CA WA WEB SERVICES AGENT) ALLOW ORGANIZATIONS TO EXPAND SOA DESIGN ACROSS THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXECUTION OF CRITICAL BUSINESS SERVICES BY LEVERAGING INTEGRATION WITH TODAY S MODERN APPLICATION SERVICES PLATFORMS. CA WA APPLICATION SERVICES AGENT AND CA WA WEB SERVICES AGENT ARE FOUNDATIONAL COMPONENTS TO THE WORKLOAD AUTOMATION PORTFOLIO AND OFFER UNIQUE CAPABILITIES WHICH ALLOW ORGANIZATIONS TO CONNECT INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENTS AND EVENTS DIRECTLY TO THE EXECUTION OF BUSINESS OR IT PROCESSES. Overview Benefits The CA Advantage CA WA Application Services Agent and CA WA Web Services Agent allow organizations to extend service-oriented design into the development and implementation of critical applications, and thereby extend common infrastructure from operations to applications, performance and data management. They also provide a foundation layer for SOA and the realtime enterprise. CA WA Application Services Agent and CA WA Web Services Agent provide the basis to evolve batch workloads from static, standalone data center operations to dynamic components that are intrinsic to composite, service-oriented business applications. Integration enables a number of capability extensions, including an increased number of job types and a wider range of business events. This results in added flexibility to the management and execution of batch processes. CA understands your need to simplify the management of your increasingly complex enterprise. CA is a leader in mainframe and cross-platform systems management, assuring you leading edge solutions to meet your needs for workload automation. This is part of CA s vision for Enterprise IT Management (EITM), which helps you to unify IT management across the enterprise for better business results.

2 Accelerate the Design and Delivery of Critical Application Services Workloads using CA WA Application Services Agent & CA WA Web Services Agent CA extends its workload automation solution by embracing SOA best practices and web services. The CA WA Application Services Agent and CA WA Web Services Agent provide deep integration with today s modern application services platforms and the ability to interconnect disparate components into the design and delivery of crucial IT or business processes. This helps to accelerate development times and improve the overall reliability of critical processes. The CA WA Application Services Agent and CA WA Web Services Agent are crucial building blocks for evolving beyond stand-alone batch workloads to components that are intrinsic to composite, service-oriented business applications. Key Capabilities CA WA APPLICATION SERVICES AGENT The CA WA Application Services Agent enables you to define and run the following types of jobs: Entity Bean Create an entity bean, update the property values of an existing entity bean, or remove an entity bean from the database. HTTP Invoke a program over HTTP in a similar way to a web browser. For example, you can use the HTTP job to invoke a CGI script, a Perl script, or a servlet. The HTTP job sends a URL over HTTP using the GET or POST method. JMS Publish Send a message to a queue or publish a message to a topic on a JMS server. JMS Subscribe Consume messages from a queue or topic on a JMS server. JMX-MBean Attribute Get Query a JMX server for the value of an MBean attribute. The returned value is stored on the computer where the CA WA Application Services Agent resides. JMX-MBean Attribute Set Change the value of an MBean attribute on a JMX server. JMX-MBean Operation Invoke an operation on an MBean on a JMX server. JMX-MBean Subscribe Monitor an MBean for a single notification or monitor continuously for notifications. 2 PRODUCT BRIEF: CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION APPLICATION SERVICES AGENT & CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION WEB SERVICES AGENT

3 POJO Instantiate a class to create a Java object and invoke a method on it. The job is restricted to classes that take constructors with no arguments (default constructors). You can use the POJO job to invoke custom Java code on a local computer. RMI Establish interactions between Java objects on different computers in a distributed network. Using an RMI job, you can access a remote server and invoke a method on a Java object. Session Bean Access a session bean on an application server. This job type can make a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to the session bean, invoke a method that defines the business logic, pass parameters to the method, and have the results returned as serialized Java output. You can access stateless and stateful session beans using the Session Bean job. CA WA WEB SERVICES AGENT The CA WA Web Services Agent enables you to define and run the following types of jobs: POJO Instantiate a class to create a Java object and invoke a method on it. The job is restricted to classes that take constructors with no arguments (default constructors). You can use the POJO job to invoke custom Java code on a local computer. Web Service Call an operation within a web service and pass parameters to the operation. The parameters can be actual values or a serialized Java object passed by another job. CA WA Application Services Agent and CA WA Web Services Agent Deliver Key Functionality for Modern Enterprises The CA Workload Automation solution automates and controls complex workloads in real time across multi-platform environments and enables companies to improve the delivery and availability of critical business services while reducing costs. CA WA Application Services Agent and CA Web Services Agent allow users to integrate multiple disparate processing points (e.g. schedules, platforms, events, policies, etc.) into a single cohesive workflow that can be managed and prioritized as a single business process represented logically on a centralized and secured management interface. This allows organizations to streamline the design and delivery of mission critical processes without having to use multiple systems and tools. Streamlined processing has gained paramount importance with the increasing demand to process workloads in real time. The CA solution enables swift design and delivery of business-critical workload processes that can be automated, controlled and managed dynamically in real time based on SLA policies. PRODUCT BRIEF: CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION APPLICATION SERVICES AGENT & CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION WEB SERVICES AGENT 3

4 The CA Advantage CA Workload Automation and EITM CA WA Application Services Agent and CA WA Web Services agent enable SOA design across the development and execution of critical business services. CA understands the requirement to manage workloads from a business process perspective, but also to maintain the granularity and depth of information needed to manage and resolve issues. CA Workload Automation enables companies to improve the delivery of critical business services reliably while reducing costs through increased efficiency and event-driven automation. The CA Workload Automation solution is an integral part of CA s Enterprise IT Management initiative. The goal of EITM is to unify and simplify deployment as well as use and integrate all management solutions, tasks and processes to ensure that your business is fully supported. The CA Workload Automation solution supports this initiative by supporting the management, visualization and monitoring of complex, multi-platform enterprise-wide workloads. EITM provides comprehensive, integrated management of every aspect of IT, in the context of your particular business. The result of this integrated solution takes enterprise systems management to a whole new level the whole is much more than the sum of the individual products and solutions. Your goal is to support your business, while managing costs, reducing risks and improving service EITM is the answer to this challenge. Customize and Enhance Product Value with CA Services CA s leadership in workload automation and enterprise systems management includes the expertise offered by CA Services. Whether you need a health check, customization expertise, on-site training, integration assistance and or more, our team of mainframe experts will ensure you get quick return on investment, full product value and satisfaction with your solution. They will work with you to understand your environment and your needs. The Value of CA Education CA Education a preferred source for IT management and best practices training is an important part of our services offering. We assess your training needs, create the right training plan for you and optimize the program with advanced coursework and industry certifications. The cornerstone of CA Education is the Unified Learning Approach, which features four important steps: 1. Determine business goals and IT requirements 2. Determine the organizational competency level required to achieve these goals, considering people, process and technology requirements 3. Assess individual staff competency levels on CA software and IT best practices in an Education Needs Assessment 4. Evaluate and measure staff post-training knowledge and skills 4 PRODUCT BRIEF: CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION APPLICATION SERVICES AGENT & CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION WEB SERVICES AGENT

5 Next Steps What are your biggest business challenges? If you find that: You have fewer people to manage more volume, more complexity and more resources, at lower cost and lower risk Your requirements for service levels and availability are increasing and are becoming harder to deliver You have too many diverse job scheduling solutions with too little integration You are spending too much on systems administration and too little on new development You need to be able to offer more rapid development of services and business applications, but cannot rewrite all your code as part of moving to SOA, then take a look at CA Workload Automation solutions. Get quick value from the CA Workload Automation family of products. To learn more, and see how CA Workload Automation solutions enable organizations to unify and simplify IT management for better business results, visit ca.com/unify. Copyright 2008 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. PB05ESMWAASA01E MP Learn more about how CA can help you transform your business at ca.com