Automic Workload Automation

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  • 1.  Ressourcemanagement in Automic

    Posted Nov 16, 2018 09:49 AM

    Hello community,

     

    we have 7 different servers and would like to balance the workload between these servers.

    Do you have any advices how to manage the following example?

    One workflow WORKFLOW A consists of a lot JOBS. These JOBS run on 2 of these servers. This workflow starts Thursday at night and takes at least 30 hours.

    Another workflow WORKFLOW B starts one day later and its JOBS should balance its workload between all of the 7 servers.

    In this case our approach is to use a HOSTG-object with all the 7 servers and divide the JOBS between these servers.

    Now our problem:

    The 2 servers, that are used by the JOBS of WORKFLOW A should not be used by the JOBS of WORKFLOW B until WORKFLOW A is finished.

    WORKFLOW B gets more and more JOBS while it is running with the UC-Scrpit "MODIFY_TASK...ADD_TASK". These step should run on the 7 servers in the end but only on the 5 left servers until WORKFLOW A is running.

     

    I hope someone could understand my use problem and has some advices for me.

    Feel free to ask further questions.

     

    Thanks for the help in advance!

     

    Nils



  • 2.  Re: Ressourcemanagement in Automic

    Posted Nov 16, 2018 02:09 PM

    I've never had to work on this type of problem before, but I know others here have.  The product does not offer any automatic workload balancing features. 

     

    If I had to write a workload balancing solution myself, I might try to build a PowerShell utility to collect current usage data from a list of candidate servers to determine which one is currently under the least stress, populate a UC4 variable with that server name, and use that variable to set the HOST value for the next UC4 job.



  • 3.  Re: Ressourcemanagement in Automic

    Posted Nov 19, 2018 07:49 AM

    Hi

     

    what about the following (almost simple) attempt:

     

    For Workflow A create a HOSTG containing agents on your both servers

    For workflow B create a HOSTG containing agents on your seven servers with mode LOAD dependent

     

    As long as the workload on the 2 Servers of Workflow A is higher than the average workload it works...

    This does not meet your requirements to 100% but mostly :-)

     

    Any other workload balancing logic must be scripted, as mentione by Pete.

     

    cheers, Wolfgang