Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 Installation Guide

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Installation Overview
CWA Components
Remote Master
A Remote Master is simply an additional CWA Master that is installed in a different environment. The Remote Master 
allows a connection to another CWA Master for sharing global CWA variables between CWA environments. Variables 
definitions must have “Publish value to remote masters” selected in the CWA environment where they reside prior to 
being available through a remote master connection. 
Transporter
The Cisco Workload Automation Transporter application transports scheduling objects from one CWA instance (source) 
to another CWA instance (destination). For example, you can use the Transporter to promote jobs from a test instance 
to a production instance. The primary strength of Cisco Workload Automation Transporter is its ability to automate the 
copying of job data, although it can copy other data types as well.
Beginning with CWA 6.3, the Transporter can also export jobs as XML files and import the jobs back from XML files. 
All features of the Transporter are fully documented, including installation, in the Cisco Workload Automation Transporter 
User Guide.
 
Network Configuration
CWA
 can be configured on a network in many different ways. You can connect any number of licensed Masters using 
any number of licensed agents, each located anywhere on your network. 
An example of the network connections for a basic system are shown below. Static port numbers are shown; no port 
number means the port is dynamically assigned. 
Figure 2
Basic CWA Component Connections