CA Workload Automation iXp User Guide - CA Technologies

Go Offline9 INTERACTIVEFORECASTINGA key function of iXp is the ability to perform interactive forecasting andsimulations. Forecast reports can be generated and simulations played back. Alljob run simulations are done by iXp and not actually run on CA WorkloadAutomation AE. Simulation is based on historical averages and resolution of jobdependencies as defined within CA Workload Automation AE. The results of asimulation can be viewed as steps-through-time and also can be saved in areport. Simulation also provides the ability to perform “what-if” scenarios thatcould help during decision-making9.1 Go OfflineiXp has two modes, Online and Offline. Interactive forecasting can be performedonly during Offline mode. When Offline mode is started all job dependencies andrelevant attributes are loaded on the client, and during Offline mode job runs andcurrent statuses are not loaded or shown. As a result, in Offline mode all jobs areinitially marked as INACTIVE. Although the job data is highly compressed duringOffline mode, it could impact the client machine performance because all thatdata is stored in memory on the client machine when a user decides to enterOffline mode. Therefore, iXp allows users to enter Offline mode with data for asingle CA Workload Automation AE instance only. If iXp is monitoring more thanone CA Workload Automation AE instance, the user is presented with a selectionof CA Workload Automation AE instances when entering Offline mode.User Guide 130