Broadcom (Automic) Agent Installation and configuration for SAP Batch Jobs

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Purpose of the Document: The purpose is to show the Automic (Brodcom) Agent installation on Linux Server, it’s integration with SAP System and Automic Portal web UI to trigger automatic SAP Jobs and central controlling for the Jobs.

This Document will Show:

• Agent Media download.
• Required media for Agent Setup
• Service Manager installation
• Configuration of Agent 
• Configuration of Service Manager

Automic Tool:

Automic Automation for SAP allows business processes to be created with workflows that include jobs from SAP systems.
Automation Engine and its functions can be used in various ways in order to support processing in SAP.

In below example we will installing the Automic Agent and Service Manager for version 12.3.6 in Linux environment

Step 1: Download Media from Broadcom Portal

By Using Link- Automic Download Center - Component Downloads

Once the media is downloaded we need to extract the files and unzip and untar the same

For Agent below shown files will be used

For Service manager below shown files will be used

Step 2: Download SAP JCO
https://me.sap.com/softwarecenter

Goto Path -->SUPPORT PACKAGES & PATCHES -> By Category -> SAP Connectors -> 

Step 3: Automic Agent and Service Manager media Untar and unzip

Unpack the .tar file:

gzip -d UCXJR3X.tar.gz

tar xvfo UCXJR3X.tar

Before making changes in service manager files take backup of original files

Rename file ucybsmgr.ori.ini to ucybsmgr.ini

Step 4: Make changes in Service Manager and Agent file

uc4.smd and uc4.smc file will be used to initiate service manager process and agent process.

Rename uc4.ori.smd to uc4.smd and define Agent Path, JAVA Path to start the agent Process and Agent name (same name will be used in ucxjr3x.ini (Agent file))

Create uc4.smc and define agent name (same name will be used in ucxjr3x.ini (Agent file)) to trigger the start of Agent process.

Now go to Agent Path
/usr/automic/agents/SAP_SID/bin

Make changes to ucxjr3x.ori.ini as per the required environment ( Define Agent Name, Automic Application and Web Server details where Automic Engine is running)

 And rename it to ucxjr3x.ini

Provide Agent Name in the ucxjr3x.ini- This name will also be used in UC4.smc file for triggering Agent process using service manager and with same name agent connection will be created in Automic UI.

Provide Automic server details and port- This is the server for Automic application where your automic engine is running.

AETEST is the name of the Automic Web UI Connection and ucxjr3x.ini file will contain details about automic web UI Application and port.

Step 5: Starting Service Manager and Agent Process

Command to start Agent directly ---> java -jar ucxjr3x.jar

We need to have Java- installed (this Java Path will be defined in uc4.smd file) and it will be used to start the agent process

Command to start Service Manager and agent through Service Manager using file uc4.smc and uc4.smd

nohup ./ucybsmgr AETEST >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Automic agent And Service Manager Process will be running on Linux Server.

Next We need to Configure Agent on Automic Web UI, Create a R3 connection to login on SAP System and Job Object needs to be created which will trigger the Job in Backend SAP System via connection through this Agent.

Creation of Agent in Automic Web UI, Template, R3 Connection and Job Object for SAP we will cover under other blog.

Conclusion:-
In this Blog we have covered installation and configuration of Automic Broadcom Agent on a Linux Platform to Cater Automation of SAP Jobs for a central controlling Tool for Batch Jobs scheduling, monitoring and Modification.

References Link:-

New Installation (automic.com)

Installing the Agent for SAP - Details (automic.com)

Automic Download Center - Component Downloads

https://me.sap.com/softwarecenter