Engine connections

An engine connection is a set of configuration information that identifies a specific workstation in the HCL Workload Automation environment in the network.

To manage scheduling objects you must connect from the Dynamic Workload Console to a HCL Workload Automation environment. In Dynamic Workload Console you do this by defining engine connections.

You can connect to both HCL Workload Automation distributed and z/OS environments and you can create as many engine connections as you need.

When you create an engine connection, you give it a name and select the plan that you want it to access. The selected plan must be accessible from that workstation.

If you connect to a HCL Workload Automation for z/OS environment, the plan that you access is the current plan and the engine that you connect to is the controller workstation, which is the management hub of the HCL Workload Automation for z/OS environment.

If you connect to a HCL Workload Automation distributed environment, you can access different types of plans and connect to different types of engines. Based on the type of plan that you select and the engine that you connect to, you can get different results when running your tasks in the same HCL Workload Automation distributed environment. You can connect to:

The master domain manager workstation

The top management hub. Select this workstation if you want to access the entire set of objects involved in the current plan, or if you want to access a trial plan, a forecast plan, or an archived plan. You can define and use different engine connections to the master domain manager, each accessing a different plan.

A fault-tolerant agent if the connector is installed

A workstation where jobs and job streams are run. Select this workstation if you want to access the set of objects involved in the current plan and scheduled to run in that fault-tolerant agent. You choose this option if you need up-to-date information regarding job status on this workstation.