Configuring Agent System Parameters

Determines the Control-M/Server port number that receives data from the Agent.

Port number specifies the Server computer port that receives data from the agent computer. Verify that this port is not used for any other purpose. This value must match the Agent-to-Server Port Number in Control-M/Server. The Timeout value is the COMTIMOUT communication job-tracking timeout, in seconds. Mandatory.

Valid Values: 1024–65533

Default: 7005

Defines the primary Control-M/Server host (multi-subnet aware).

Defines one or more TCP/IP addresses or DNS names, separated by a | (vertical bar, or pipe), where each value identifies a Control-M/Server host that is authorized to connect to this Agent.

Describes the Server-Agent communication protocol version.

Valid Values: 12–14

Default: 13

Determines the maximum number of times an Agent process must attempt to communicate with the Control-M/Server before declaring that there is no communication.

Valid Values: 1–99

Default: 12

Determines the number of seconds between failed attempts to retry to communicate with the Control-M/Server.

Valid Values: 1–99

Default: 1

Defines a logical name for the Agent.

The value must match the name that the Agent is defined by in Control-M/Server.

A logical name is used only when the Agent initiates communication to Control-M/Server.

Replies and job status updates are sent by the Agent using the name that the Control-M/Server uses to contact the Agent. This allows the server to use several aliases for the same Agent.

Default: Agent host name.

Determines whether the Agent can open a connection to the Control-M/Server when working in persistent connection mode.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

• A: Automatically connects to Control-M/Server in persistent connection mode.

Default: Y

Defines the network interface that the Agent listens on (multi-subnet aware).

This can be set to a specific hostname or to an IP address so that the Agent port is not opened in other interfaces.

Determines whether the IP address or the host name is saved in CTMS_HOSTNAME.

Use this parameter if Control-M runs on a computer with more than one network card.

Determines the maximum number of seconds that an Agent utility waits for a response after sending a request to the Control-M/Server. Set this value higher than the value for TCP_IP_TIMEOUT.

Valid Values: 1–86,400

Default:

• UNIX: 120

• Windows: 600

Determines the maximum number of seconds that the TCP/IP connection times out. Set this value lower than the value for UTTIMEOUT.

Valid Values: 1–86,400

Default: 120

Defines the authorized Control-M/Server IP address.

Determines the remote utilities port number.

Valid Values: 1025–65535

Default: 8000

Determines whether the Agent utilities are uploaded to remote hosts.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: N

(OS/400 Only) Changes the conversion table from ASCII to EBCDIC.

(OS/400 Only) Changes the conversion table from EBCDIC to ASCII.

Determines the general debug diagnostics level.

Valid Values: 0–5

Determines the Agent diagnostics level.

Valid Values: 0–5

Determines the Agent submitter diagnostics level.

Valid Values: 0–5

Determines the Agent tracker diagnostics level.

Valid Values: 0–5

Determines the Agent router diagnostics level.

Valid Values: 0–5

Determines the utilities diagnostics level.

Valid Values: 0–5

Determines the Agent Java diagnostics level.

Valid Values: 0–5

Defines the First Failure Data Capture diagnostic level.

Valid Values: 0–5

Defines the number of seconds for the First Failure Data Capture reset interval.

Valid Values: 1–86400

Default: 600

Determines the First Failure Data Capture diagnostic level for ON Statement processing.

Valid Values: 1–5

Default: 1

Determines the number of days to retain Agent log files.

After this period, Agent proclog files are deleted by the New Day procedure.

Valid Values: 1–99

Default: 1

Determines the number of days to retain the files in the dailylog directory. These files contain the job information that is used to calculate the metrics for the usage measurement report.

Valid Values: 1–99

Default: 7

Determines the number of days to retain the files in the DATA\rhdetails directory. These files contain the CPU specifications for the Agent, remote hosts, and Application plug-in server hosts.

Valid Values: 1–99

Default: 7

Determines the number of days to wait before STATUS, PROCID, ONSTMT, RUNTIME, and non-root files are deleted from the Agent home directory after an Agent or host malfunction occurs.

Valid Values: 1–65

Default: 100

Determines whether to generate the daily ctmag log file.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

Determines the maximum size, in MB, of diagnostic log files for a process or a thread.

Valid Values: 1–1,000

Default: 10

Determines the number of days to retain output files.

Valid Values: 1–99

Default: 10

Determines the number of KB to display from the start of the job output file.

Valid Values: 0–999,999

Default: 0

Determines the number of KB of memory to display from the end of the job output file.

Valid Values: 1–999,999

Default: 0

Determines whether to return the actual exit code from Agent utilities.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: N

Determines the prefix for the OUTPUT file name.

Values:

• MEMNAME: The OUTPUT file prefix is the MEMNAME of the job.

• JOBNAME: The OUTPUT file prefix is the JOBNAME of the job.

Default: MEMNAME

Defines the name of the default printer used to print job output files.

Determines the number of days that the installation package is saved by the Agent.

Valid Values:

Default: 30

Determines the number of days to keep the backup4restore directory on the Agent, which is used to downgrade to the original version of the Agent after an upgrade has occurred.

Valid Values: 1–365

Default: 30

Determines whether all variables are set as environment variables in the script.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

Determines the minimum free disk space, in MB, required for job submission.

Valid Values: 1–100,000

Default: 50

Determines the minimum free disk space, in MB, to send an Agent alert.

Valid Values: 1–100,000

Default: 100

Determines whether to wrap input parameters in double quotes.

Valid Values:

• 2: Parameter values are always passed to the operating system without quotes. If quotes were specified in the job definition, they are removed before the parameter is passed on by the Agent.

• 4: Parameters are passed to the operating system in exactly the same way that they were specified in the job definition. No quotes are added or removed in this case.

Default: 4

Determines whether procedures invoked by a job can be run outside the job object.

This prevents the original job from remaining in execution mode until the invoked procedure completes.

Valid Values:

• Y: All procedures that are invoked by the job are run inside the job object.

• N: All procedures that are invoked by the job are run outside the job object.

Default: Y

Determines whether a user-defined login script should be run by the Agent before running the standard user login script.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: N

Determines whether to print commands in the job output.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

Determines whether to enable job recovery when the Agent monitoring process terminates unexpectedly.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

Defines the code page for job processing in Latin-1 mode.

Valid Values: 1–99,999

Default: 1,252

(UNIX/Linux) Indicates file access mode of the output file in octal values.

Valid Values: 600, 640, 644, 660, 664, 666

Default: 600

(UNIX/Linux) Indicates file access mode of the output file for non-root mode when the job owner is not the Agent owner.

Valid Values: 660, 664, 666

Default: 660

(UNIX only) Determines whether to enable a permissions check of the job script in non-root mode.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

(UNIX/Linux) Defines the locale (LATIN-1 mode only).

Valid Values:

• C

• POSIX

• de_DE.iso88591

• en_GB

• en_GB.iso88591

• en_US

• en_US.iso88591

• es_ES.iso88591

• es_US.iso88591

• fr_FR.iso88591

• French

• German

• Spanish

(UNIX/Linux) Defines the flag to set when submitting a job to the Bourne Shell.

Valid Values: -x, -v, n, N

Default: -x

(UNIX/Linux) Defines the flag to set when submitting a job to the Korn Shell.

Valid Values: -x, -v, n, N

Default: -x

(UNIX/Linux) Determines whether to save temporary files for a job.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: N

(UNIX/Linux) Determines whether to replace $0 with the file name when submitting a script file job.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

(UNIX/Linux) Defines the directory where temporary files are saved during job submission.

(UNIX/Linux) Defines a character used to enclose job processing parameters that are passed to jobs by the Control-M/Server.

(UNIX/Linux) Defines the full path to the alternative 'su' utility.

(UNIX/Linux) Determines whether to enable PAM Authentication in non-root mode.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

(UNIX/Linux) Defines permissions for debug log files in the proclog directory, in octal values.

Valid Values: 600, 640, 644, 660, 664, 666

Default: 644

(UNIX/Linux) Sets the umask of the user job process.

Valid Values:

• Unused

• 000

• 002

• 003

• 007

• 022

• 023

• 027

• 033

• 037

• 077

Default: Unused

(UNIX/Linux) Determines whether to include Agent identification environment variables in the job environment.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: N

Defines the port number for sending messages to the Agent Tracker process when jobs end.

Valid Values: 1025–65535

Determines the tracker polling interval, in seconds.

Valid Values: 1–86,400

Default: 60

Determines the number of seconds the Agent Tracker process waits after tracking or event failure.

Valid Values: 0–99,999

Determines the number of seconds the Agent Tracker process waits for the job status file after job submission.

Valid Values: 0–99,999

Determines whether the Agent Tracker process sends updates to the Control-M/Server.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Determines whether the Agent Tracker process sends job updates to the primary Control-M/Server rather than to the Control-M/Server host that submitted the job.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: N

Determines whether to enable multiple parallel Agent Trackers.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

Determines the maximum number of tracker-workers that can run in parallel when there is no starvation. Starvation occurs when a job causes repeated tracker-worker crashes, or when a job causes a tracker-worker to hang.

Valid Values: 1–100

Default: 10

Determines the number of seconds that a job is identified as recently tracked.

Set this parameter to avoid situations where a job is tracked by more than one tracker-worker in a short period of time.

Before a tracker-worker tracks a job, it checks if the job has recently been tracked, and determines whether to track it.

Valid Values: 1–60

Default: 15

Determines the optimal ratio between the number of jobs and tracker-workers.

The actual ratio is determined by the number of jobs divided by the number of running tracker-workers.

Under normal circumstances, the tracker creates new tracker-workers when the actual ratio is more than the optimal ratio. It shuts down tracker-workers if the actual ratio is less than the optimal ratio.

Valid Values: 5–300

Default: 30

Determines the number of seconds that a job waits to be tracked before it is declared as starved.

Valid Values: 30–300

Default: 120

Determines the default chunk size, in KB, to read text from plug-ins.

Valid Values: 1–31

Determines the default chunk size, in KB, for View Output from plug-ins.

Valid Values: 1–30

Default: 2

Determines the default chunk size, in KB, for viewing and editing JCL code and documentation from plug-ins.

Valid Values: 1–30

Default: 2

Determines the default chunk size, in KB, for general requests from plug-ins.

Valid Values: 1–30

Default: 30

Determines the sleep interval, in seconds, between successive CPU monitor operations.

Valid Values: 10–3,600

Default: 30

Determines the interval, in minutes, for the Agent CPU usage to be sent to the Control-M/Server.

Valid Values: 1–180

Default: 15

Determines the number of CPU samples that are used to calculate average CPU usage.

Valid Values: 3–60

Default: 3

Determines the interval, in seconds, between Account Availability monitor operations.

Valid Values: 600–36,000

Default: 3,600

Determines whether to measure function calls.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

Determines the time, in minutes, for the main Agent process to be considered not responsive.

A message is written to the daily log file.

Valid Values: 1–900

Default: 3

Determines the time, in minutes, for the Agent tracker process to be considered not responsive.

A message is written to the daily log file.

Valid Values: 1–900

Default: 3

Determines the time, in minutes, for the Agent router process to be considered not responsive.

A message is written to the daily log file.

Valid Values: 1–900

Default: 3

Determines the interval, in minutes, for the Agent to send an alert when a process does not respond.

Valid Values: 1–900

Default: 60

Determines the number of minutes to wait between checks that determine if there is enough free disk space.

Valid Values: 60–1,440

Default: 60

Determines the number of hours to wait before the Agent validates the SSL keystore and certificates when using SSL mode.

Valid Values: 1–1,440

Default: 12

Determines whether to set the Java service as the router for all Server-Agent communications.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

Determines whether the On Statement is processed by the Agent Tracker or by the Agent Monitor process.

Valid Values:

• Y: Agent Tracker

• N: Agent Monitor

Default: N

Determines whether the output for On Statement processes is case sensitive.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

Defines the mode of support for foreign languages on the Agent.

Valid Values:

• LATIN-1

• CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean)

Default: LATIN-1

Determines which user account is used for the services to log in to.

Valid Values:

• Y: Jobs are submitted with the permissions and environment variables of the specified user.

• N: Jobs are submitted with the permissions and environment variables of the local system account.

Default: N

Defines the name of the SMTP server.

Determines the SMTP server port number.

Valid Values: 0–65535

Default: 25

Defines the sender email address.

Defines the name or alias that appears on the email.

Determines the maximum number of attempts to restore connection to the remote host.

Valid Values: 0–99,999

Default: 15

Determines the number of seconds between attempts to restore the connection to the remote host.

Valid Values: 0–99,999

Default: 120

Defines the location of the directory to store temporary files of Remote Host jobs.

These files are automatically moved to the Agent when the jobs end and the network connection is available or restored.

Default: . (period)—the files are stored in the user home directory of the job owner in the remote host.

Determines whether to include details that are related to the remote connection in the job output for jobs that execute on a remote host.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

Defines the SSH connection mode that is used in Agentless jobs.

Valid Values:

• 0: The Agent uses only the SSH protocol to upload and download files and to submit the job to the remote computer.

• 1: The Agent uses both SFTP and SSH protocols. Only one connection is opened during job execution.

• 2: The Agent used both SFTP and SSH protocols. Two connections are opened at the beginning of the job, but after a while the SSH connection is closed.

Default: 2

Defines the SSH command to verify the remote platform version.

Valid Values: Any valid command.

Default: cmd.exe /c ver

Determines whether to delete temporary files on the remote host after the job executes.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

Determines whether the output file is deleted from remote host computers.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: N

Determines whether the output handling operations are performed on the remote host instead of on the Agent.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: N

Determines whether to allow multiple remote host keys for clusters.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: N

Determines the number of seconds for SSH connection timeout in job monitoring (Mode 2).

Valid Values: 1–86,400

Default: 300

Determines the number of seconds between job completion monitoring (SSH).

Valid Values: 1–86,400

Default: 0

Determines the number of milliseconds to wait for WMI events.

Valid Values: 1,000–900,000

Default: 50,000

Determines how the WMI remote host availability is checked.

Valid Values:

• Y: TCP ping only.

• N: WMI and TCP ping.

Default: N

Defines the shared directory name that is used by the Agent for WMI jobs.

Default: SYSOUT

Determines whether to set the WMI monitoring mode to asynchronous or synchronous.

Valid Values:

• ASYNC: Asynchronous

• SYNC: Synchronous

Default: ASYNC

Determines whether the remote host performs the post-processing actions (move, copy, or delete the job outputs).

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

Default: Y

Determines whether to check for the remote host platform for every job.

Valid Values:

• Y: Yes

• N: No

• M: Manual enforcement by setting the %%RJX_REMOTE_PLATF variable of the job.

Determines the maximum number of jobs that can use a single connection.

Connections are monitored and are released when not in use.

Valid Values: 0–99,999

Default: 10

Determines the number of minutes for a thread to monitor the connections and release unused ones.

Valid Values: 0–99,999

Default: 10

Determines the maximum number of minutes to check the status of open connections.

Valid Values: 0–99,999

Default: 10

Determines the number of retries when communicating with the SSH-courier.

Valid Values: 1–1,000

Default: 10

Determines the number of seconds to wait before Agent processes shut down.

This value is multiplied by the number of installed plug-ins.

Valid Values: 1–30

Defines the prefix for the generated device ID, no more than 5 characters.

Determines the default number of maximum replies on a *RPY action for the 'Display Program Messages' screen.

Defines the default reply on a *RPY action for the 'Display Program Messages' screen.

Defines the Display Program Messages default action to take.

Defines the screen title that appears for the Display Program Messages dialog. This dialog can have a different title on non-English systems.

Defines the BRKMSG attribute of the terminal job, which can prevent messages from disrupting the VT flow.

Determines whether to include screen images in the job output and their location.

Determines whether the job log of the terminal job is appended to the VT job log or replaces it.

Defines the character to replace Non-display output fields. If not set, Non-display fields appear blank.

Defines the character to replace the reverse image output fields. If not set, reverse image fields show their textual value.

Determines whether to disable the On Statement processing over the screen images output.

Determines whether to skip the DSPLOG action for terminal jobs without a job log.

Set to Y if you encounter long delays in post processing of VT jobs.

Defines the name of a qualified (Library/Name) or non-qualified (Name) of a program to carry out the Report Distribution of ended jobs.

Defines the parallel post-processing actions to take.

Determines whether to disable the freeform On Statement.

When disabled, report distribution is spawned by the Tracker.

Determines the minimum number of pages where automatic Parallel Post Processing takes place.

Defines the default job log output (LOGOUTPUT) attribute for job submission.

Determines whether to enable resolution of special values in regular job parameters, which does not impact special value resolution in Virtual Terminal or Script file jobs.

Defines the default CCSID for all jobs which can be any valid CCSID or one of the special values: *SYSVAL, *USRPRF, *HEX.

Defines the list of valid SBMJOB command parameters.

Defines the prefix to use when setting the attributes of a job as Environment Variables.

Determines whether to allow overriding the message queue of the submitted job.