CA Workload Automation iXp User Guide - CA Technologies

ARCHITECTUREELEMENTiXp DaemonDESCRIPTIONThis process runs on the iXp Server machine and is theonly process that runs constantly. The iXp Daemon is amulti-threaded Java process that does the following:• Collects all the relevant job data from the CAWorkload Automation AE instances• Maintains the iXp Cache• Supplies the data to all the iXp clientsiXp CacheiXp ClientThe iXp Daemon runs as a servlet within a WebApplication Server (for example, Tomcat).These highly compressed data files in proprietary binaryformat include all the CA Workload Automation AE dataneeded by the iXp Daemon and the iXp clients.The iXp Client is the Java-based GUI that can belaunched on any Java supported system, and the CLIthat can be launched on supported systems.The GUI provides the capability to monitor, report,forecast, control and update job processing across theCA Workload Automation AE instances. Because theGUI is a Java applet, there is no software installationrequired on the machine that will launch the client.iXp AgentThe CLI provides the capability to run CA WorkloadAutomation AE commands like sendevent, autorep, jil,job_depends from any machine without installing the CAWorkload Automation AE client software.The iXp Agent is a Java program that runs on a CAWorkload Automation AE Remote Agent. The iXp Agentlets iXp Clients retrieve the output files that CA WorkloadAutomation AE jobs create.iXp also provides a PERL-based agent that has beendeprecated. The iXp Daemon can start this programautomatically when needed, or it can be started as a jobfrom CA Workload Automation AE. The iXP Server caninstall this program automatically, or the iXpAdministrator can install it manually.Note: The iXp Agent is not required with CA WorkloadAutomation AE r11.3 and higher.ARCHITECTURE 9