Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide

Controlling Production

Queue Procedures

To add a queue:

From the Navigator pane, select Definitions>Queues

 to display the Queues pane.

Select the parent queue under which you want to place your queue.

Click the Add button on the CWA toolbar or right-click and select Add Queue from the context menu to display the 
Queue Definition dialog.

Specify values in the

Queue Name, Parent, Limit and Priority fields. For more information, see 

Note: It is best if no two sibling queues have the same queue priority value.

Specify the queue filter(s) you want to be associated with this queue. For more information, see 

Click the Bumping tab. 

If you want your queue to launch jobs immediately, select the Launch

 immediately option. Jobs will launch 

regardless of whether the system is running at its capacity or not.

If you want jobs to be bumped to different priorities and to different queues if they are waiting for a long time, 
specify the Priority

 bumping options. Be sure that the queue to which jobs bump has a higher priority than the 

current queue.

If you are running Unix jobs, you can select the Nice Value which defines the CPU scheduling priority for jobs 
from this queue. The value must be an integer from 1 to 40. The default value is 21. Higher nice values result in 
lower execution priority.

In the Hours fields at the bottom of the dialog, type the queue’s hours of availability.

Click the Description tab and type a description for the queue.

To save the queue, click OK. The queue is added to the Queues pane and displays below the specified parent queue.

Adding a Queue Filter

Queue filters determine how jobs are assigned to queues. You can add filter criteria (conditions) to a queue at any time.

To add a queue filter:

From the Navigator pane, select Definitions>Queues

 to display the Queues pane.

Right-click the queue and from the context menu select the Edit Queue

 option or double-click the queue to display 

the Queue Definition dialog.

Click the Filters tab and click the Add button. 

Select the type of queue filter you want to add from the context menu For more information about queue filters, see 

. The specific queue filter dialog appears. Note that most queue condition dialogs 

contain an option to exclude the jobs with the specified criteria. This option lets the queue accept all jobs that do 
not match the criteria.

To accept the filter, click OK. Click Cancel to discard the filter.

The filters you select will be added to the queue definition. They are displayed in the Filter field on the Filter tab of 
the Queue Definition dialog as follows:

The filter name is marked by a diamond symbol.

Included criteria are marked with a plus (+) symbol.