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Actions and Alerts

Action Concepts

Action Concepts

Actions

An action is a task or notification that is automatically performed by CWA in response to a job event trigger that occurs 
for a specific job or job group or system event trigger. Actions are customized tasks and messages linked to a job or 
system event through the 

 and 

 dialogs. The job or system event is then 

associated with a job or job group. For example, an action to send email to the owner of a job that failed can be tied to 
a 

 job event trigger. Another action that sends an alert message to the console can also 

be linked to the same job event so that two actions occur simultaneously when the job fails. 

Note: When multiple actions are defined for a single event, the actions are completed as the conditions to satisfy the 
event trigger are fulfilled.

Action Types

From the 

 pane, you can view the actions that belong to you or your workgroups. 

The types of actions you can choose from are:

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 – Use an email message action to notify users via email that an event occurred.

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 – Use a log message action to post a message to the CWA and system logs to record that a specified condition 

occurred. Each CWA log message has a unique numerical identifier. You can view CWA logs from the 

 pane 

and view Windows event logs using the

 Windows Event Viewer.

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 – Use a new job action to add special recovery, pager activation or ad hoc jobs to the production schedule when 

a job event or system event occurs. For example, you can add a recovery job into the schedule if the underlying job 
fails.

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 – Use an alert action to send an alert message to the 

 pane of the CWA client. These alerts generated 

by the action can be assigned varying levels of severity. Once these alert messages are sent to the CWA client, the 
Alerts status light turns yellow to notify a user that a condition in the system has generated an alert. The alert must 
be acknowledged and eventually closed, forcing the CWA operator to respond to them. The 

 pane is 

discussed in more detail later in this chapter at 

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 – Use an SNMP message action to send an SNMP message (trap) to an SNMP manager such as Hewlett 

Packard’s OpenView application.

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 – Use a HP OpenView message action to send a message to HP OpenView Operations software 

application.

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 – Use a variable action to change a user-defined variable. This action will not affect system, job or job 

event variables.

Variables

CWA lets you use system, job, job event and user-defined variables in action messages, making them applicable to many 
jobs. For instance, you could create an action called 

, with variables in the message 

text that will be replaced at runtime with the job name and runtime. When you create a job and want to be notified if it 
stops during execution, you can associate the action with the job from the 

 dialog. If the job stops 

during execution, you receive an email referring to the job that triggered the event. You could even include in the message 
a variable representing the exit code at the time of completion.