Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide

Configuring the z/OS Agent

Configuring the z/OS Agent

Verifying the Agent Connection Status 

The status of the connection to the z/OS agent can be checked in the

 pane of the CWA Web client. A value 

of

appears in the 

 column. The color of the round icon to the left of the name of the z/OS agent indicates 

the health of the network connection to the agent.

Connections that are unavailable also display in the Unavailable Connections pane of the Master Status pane of the 

CWA Web client.

Configuring the z/OS Agent 

The configuration options for the z/OS agent are described in this section. Adding, editing, deleting and changing the 
location of the Java Runtime directory are done from the 

 but other properties of an agent 

are modified from within the tagent.ini file. An agent can be configured by modifying the settings in the tagent.ini file. 
These settings can be applied either to all agents or to individual agents. 

You access the 

from the agent machine

 to add, edit or delete agent instances. 

To display the 

 on the agent machine, change to the 

 directory by typing:

cd /TIDAL/agent/bin

From the 

 directory, type in the following:

./tagent config

Enter the number of a configuration option to display its screen and follow the directions to modify an agent instance.

Color

Definition

Green

The CWA master has a healthy connection to the z/OS agent.

Red

The CWA master cannot communicate with the z/OS agent.

Gray

The connection to the z/OS agent has been disabled.