Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide

Managing Command Parameters

Tracking Methods

To determine whether the jobs completed successfully or not, both jobs will use the Exit code of cmd pipe tracking 
method using the Windows Find command to search for the saved output. The result of the Find command will determine 
the job’s final status. 

You will set up Report Writer 1 to succeed, and Report Writer 2 to fail. You do this by setting the command parameter for 
job Report Writer 1 to OK and the parameter for Report Writer 2 to FAILED.

Creating the Reporting Job Group

From the 

 pane, select 

 to display the Jobs pane. 

Right-click and select 

 from the context menu.

In the Job Group Name field, enter 

.

Click the 

 tab, if not already selected.

From the 

 list, select 

.

Click 

 to save the job group. 

Click 

 at the Effective Date dialog. 

Note: If you click OK at this dialog, the job group enters the production schedule, but nothing will run because there are 
no jobs associated with the job group yet. Clicking 

 means the job group will be added to the schedule manually.

Setting the Report Writer 1 Job to Succeed

Right-click the 

 job group and select 

 from the context menu.

In the 

 field, enter 

.

In the 

 field, enter the full path to the Argdemo batch file.

Enter 

 in the 

 field. This passes as Argument 1 (%1) to the batch file.

Click the 

 tab.

In the 

 section, select the E

 option.

In the text field below, type 

”. This tells CWA to search through the output of the job for the string “OK”. 

Since “OK” is passed as a command parameter, it will appear in the output.

Click 

.

Click 

 in the Effective Date dialog. This job will enter the schedule when manually submit its job group. 

Setting the Report Writer 2 Job to Fail

Right-click the 

 job in the jobs view.

Select 

 from the context menu.