Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide

Actions and Alerts

Actions Interface

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 – When you are in the 

field, click this button to enter a system, job or job event 

variable. You can use this function to set the value of the variable to the value of another variable. You can also set 
the variable to a string based on the values of other variables. The values of the variables are substituted at the time 
that the action is executed. 

Details Tab (SAP)

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 – Specifies which SAP instance will receive the event notification. 

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 – Specifies the name of the event that will initiate this action.

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 – If necessary, you can define the parameters of the event that triggers this action. You can use 

defined variables by selecting them from the 

 drop-down list.

Description Tab

The 

 field is a free text field for up to 255 characters.

Action Definition: Variable Dialog

The 

 dialog displays when adding or editing an update variable action. A variable action 

updates a user-defined variable when the job or system event occurs.

 

Note: Only user-defined variables can be used for variable actions. Therefore, if you have not yet created your own 
variables, this action will not be available.

Common to All Tabs

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 – The name of the action (up to 30 characters). The name must be unique.

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 – The owner of the action. The default owner is the creator.

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 – When selected, this option ensures that the action is available to all CWA users (within the constraints 

of their security policy). You can select the default condition for this option from the 

 dialog. 

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 – When you are in the 

 field, click this button to enter a system, job or job event variable. You can 

use this function to set the value of the variable to the value of another variable. You can also set the variable to a 
string based on the values of other variables. The values of the variables are substituted at the time that the action 
is executed. 

Details Tab (Variable)

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 – The master that the variable is related to. This is used mostly with intermaster dependencies.

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 – The name of the variable to update. The displayed variable name includes the type of variable it 

is, i.e., string, number or date. Choose from the drop-down list of user-defined variables.

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 – Use this drop-down menu to choose the type of update for the variable:

 – Sets the variable’s value to the value given in the 

 field. The value can be either a 

number, date or string.

– If the variable is a number or date, increments the variable’s value. If the variable 

is a string, appends the new string value to the present string.

 – If the variable is a number or date, decrements the variable’s value. If the 

variable is a string, then this option is unavailable.

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 – The value used for the update. When updating a number type, you can use any real number (including 

negative numbers). When updating a string type, any set of characters (including numbers) are treated as a string. 
When updating a date type, the format will conform to the same format as set in the operating system of the master.