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Administering Cloud EPM: The Platform Beneath the Business Processes · Module 11 · Automation

Installing and configuring the automation utility

Lesson 123 of 201 · 13 min

Reach the Downloads page and obtain the installer. Install with administrator rights, noting the platform constraint on who can install. Show the installation location and the default working directories, launch it and run a first command, show where logs, downloads, preferences and runtime files are written, and show installing on a SERVER rather than a laptop, and why that matters. INSTALL IT ON A SERVER, NOT A LAPTOP, for anything that runs on a schedule. Automation that depends on somebody's machine being awake is not automation. It requires outbound HTTPS access to the environment. In a locked-down network that is a firewall request — and after Module 9's network perimeter, that server's address must be allowed. NOTHING RUNS DURING DAILY MAINTENANCE. Commands issued during the window fail with a specific error. Schedule around it — Module 13 sets the window. It is a lightweight client; processing happens in the environment.…

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In this module: Module 11 · Automation

  1. 1Three tools, one questionFree preview
  2. 2Job Scheduler
  3. 3Installing and configuring the automation utility
  4. 4Authentication and credential handling
  5. 5The command surface
  6. 6Scripting patterns: backup and export
  7. 7Scripting patterns: data load and refresh
  8. 8Error handling and logging
  9. 9Scheduling and service accounts
  10. 10REST APIs and when to reach for them
  11. 11The integration agent
  12. 12What breaks
  13. 13Lab: automate it, and write the runbook