Agents and agent pools
How agents run your jobs, how agent pools route work to whichever agent is available, and how to read an agent state or diagnose a job waiting for one.
Part of the guided, role-based learning path.
View all tagsHow agents run your jobs, how agent pools route work to whichever agent is available, and how to read an agent state or diagnose a job waiting for one.
How Classic's notification setup maps to OpCon Continuum's notification groups, triggers, and channels, and how to prove an alert arrives before you depend on it.
How to connect the pieces you already know -- a workflow, a frequency, a wait for file, dependencies, and a failure event -- into one unattended nightly core export.
Moving a bundle of workflows, calendars, frequencies, properties, thresholds, resources and tags between environments or tenants — what the bundle contains, what export deliberately leaves out, and the overwrite and all-or-nothing rules import applies.
How a connection stores the configuration and credentials an external system or a legacy run-as account needs, which connection types exist today, how secrets are stored and masked, and how to attach one to a job.
What Copy Workflow does and does not carry across — the name rules it enforces, how copied jobs are given fresh identities, how dependencies are rewritten, and which control on the dialog has no effect yet.
How to build a service request so business users can trigger workflows on demand through a guided form.
How to build a workflow by adding jobs, dependencies, and schedules so OpCon Continuum can run your automation end to end.
How the Classic Schedule/Master/Daily authoring model maps to an OpCon Continuum workflow, and the steps to build your first one.
How to build, run, and export reports so you can track job activity, agent health, and schedule outcomes.
How to build a child workflow as a container job, then deploy it so other workflows can reuse the same set of steps.
How Classic's Batch Users map to OpCon Continuum connections, and the steps to set one up.
How to define a frequency so workflows run only on the days and timing patterns you intend.
How promoting a Classic schedule between instances maps to versioning and deploying an OpCon Continuum workflow.
How EASE job types add a job to today's instance of your schedule on Jack Henry's EASE OpCon, wait for it to finish, and bring back the remote job's output — the twenty job types and their fields, the schedule pre-checks, which remote statuses pass and fail, the SEQ property write-back, and what the Output tab shows.
How to embed one workflow inside another with a Workflow Container so you can reuse and nest automation.
How to read an event's fields and use status, source, and correlation ID to trace a whole chain of related actions back to what caused it.
How a job or process on a legacy LSAM machine raises an OpCon Continuum event by writing a file of event syntax into the agent's MSGIN directory — the Default event environment it needs, the line format and the credential pair Continuum verifies, which events are applied, how each one is attributed and where a rejected line goes.
How to wait for an inbound file from a partner, validate and process it, and handle failures, without a person watching for the file to arrive.
The job types that wait for, move and manage files today, with Wait for File and SMAFT File Transfer walked through in full — including the allowed-path rule that stops a wait before it starts.
The scheduling pattern model that decides which dates a job is eligible to run on, how working days and calendars shape the result, the options each pattern accepts, and how to validate one with the forecast.
An orientation to OpCon Continuum that explains the main pieces and points each role to where to begin.
What a connector is, the four ways connectors run, which ones need a saved connection, and the catalog of job types available today.
How a built workflow moves through waiting, running, pending-term, and terminal statuses, so you can tell a job that is working as designed from one that is genuinely stuck.
What a workflow contains and how its jobs are ordered by dependencies, timed by frequencies and build settings, placed on agents, and versioned for deployment.
The authoritative list of every job and workflow status, what each one means, and which lifecycle actions a job or workflow in that status will accept.
Every configurable part of a job — job definition, agent assignment, frequencies, dependencies, events, properties, and flags — and the three ways a job can be placed on an agent.
The four dependency types that sequence a workflow, the Condition and Type axes of a job dependency, exactly which predecessor statuses satisfy each Condition, how an expression dependency is evaluated and what each of its outcomes does to the job, and how to diagnose a job stuck waiting on one.
A reference to job statuses and the operator actions available for each, so you know how to respond during the daily run.
Every job type available today, grouped by category, with the plugin it comes from, whether it needs a connection, and where it runs.
How the UNIX/Linux, Windows, IBM i, and SQL LSAM connectors let an OpCon Continuum workflow run commands, WS_FTP Pro transfers, file operations, Corelation batch jobs, Fiserv DNA jobs, HTTP/REST calls, T-SQL scripts, library scripts, Symitar/Episys batch processing, and file-arrival waits on your existing legacy agents through a relay, and how to diagnose routing and exit-criteria failures.
How to add, configure, and group agents into pools so work runs on the right machines and stays available.
How to create, edit, and secure connections — both the endpoint and login for an external system and the batch user a legacy job runs as.
How to set up notification groups, triggers, and actions so the right people are told when an agent, workflow, or job needs attention.
How to enable, disable, and update plugins so you can extend OpCon Continuum with built-in and external capabilities.
How roles, permissions, and scopes control who can see and change what, and how to assign them.
How to group jobs into Vision cards with SLAs so you can see at a glance whether critical work is on track to finish on time.
How to build Vision cards with service-level agreements so an at-risk critical path is visible before the deadline is missed.
How Solution Manager Operations/Vision map to OpCon Continuum's Workflow View and Job View, and the operator actions available.
How to monitor the daily run so you can track progress and act on jobs that need attention.
What a Null Job does, why you would use one to aggregate dependencies or carry events, and why a Null Job that never finishes is a dependency or on-hold problem rather than a job failure.
How the OpCon MFT Transfer job downloads, transforms and uploads files on an OpCon MFT agent — the endpoint and key pickers, the order the compression and encryption steps run in, the compression password connection, what refuses a save, and why a restart resumes the previous run.
How the OpCon RPA Task job starts a Robot, Web Macro or Scan Document task on an OpCon RPA agent — the Sub-type, Task and Version pickers, how "Use latest" resolves, which statuses pass and fail, the instance properties the job carries, and what the Output tab shows.
How to order jobs with dependencies so each job runs only after the jobs it relies on reach the right outcome.
How Classic Departments map to OpCon Continuum workspaces for keeping a team's or application's content separate.
How to prepare agents with the interpreters, drivers, and permissions each connector needs before running connector jobs.
How to build a workflow and a service request, deploy them, and hand business users a guided form so they can trigger the automation themselves.
How to build a failure-triggered recovery dependency and event so a failed run retries or reroutes on its own, before an operator needs to step in.
What a relay is, how to register, install, and health-check one, and how to rotate its credentials so legacy LSAM machines can run jobs dispatched from the cloud without inbound firewall changes.
What you can report on, how to build a report from columns, sort rules, and filters, and how to save, re-run, and export the results.
How reporting moves from Classic's reporting service to OpCon Continuum's built-in report builder — what you can report on, how a report is saved and exported, and what has no report in this build.
How to diagnose and respond to a failed connector job so you can get a stalled workflow moving again.
How to respond to a failed job by reviewing the cause and choosing the right recovery action.
How to respond to a stuck or failed Wait for File job so a waiting workflow can continue or be escalated.
How roles, the permission catalog, and workspace and environment scopes shape what each person sees in Continuum, and the refusals that apply to every event.
How to add and configure a Run Command job so a job runs a command or program on an agent.
How to add and configure a Run Script job so a job runs a script in the interpreter you choose on an agent.
How the Run Command job runs a command line on an agent, when to run it through a shell instead of directly, how exit criteria and output parsing decide success, and how to diagnose command-not-found, environment, and exit-code failures.
How to run commands on legacy LSAM machines so you can automate work on systems connected through the legacy relay.
How the Run Script job runs an embedded PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Shell script on an agent, which interpreters must already be installed there, how exit criteria and output parsing decide success, and how to diagnose missing-interpreter and exit-code failures.
How to schedule and build a workflow so it is added to the daily run and ready to submit jobs.
How one workflow builds as several named schedule instances for the same date, each carrying its own property values — how instances are defined, how a build targets them, how they are named and displayed, and how dependencies, conflicts and events address one instance.
How Classic frequencies and calendars map to OpCon Continuum's pattern model, where holidays and working days are decided now, and how to confirm a schedule before it goes live.
How build settings, frequencies, and calendars together decide what runs and when, and how to work out why a job did or did not build into a day's run.
How the script library stores and versions scripts so a job can reference one instead of carrying its own copy, and how a referenced script is pinned or tracked.
How Classic Self Service maps to OpCon Continuum service requests, and the steps to build and deploy one.
How a business user finds a published request in the catalog, fills in its form, and submits it without ever seeing workflows or jobs, and what happens on submit.
What a service request is made of, including inputs, events, versions, deployments, and per-environment transformations, so a business user can trigger automation from a form without touching the workflow.
How to register, install, and maintain a relay so your on-prem legacy LSAM machines can run jobs dispatched from the cloud.
How to set up and test database connections so jobs can run SQL against your databases securely.
How to create a notification group, target the jobs that matter, and prove it works, so a failure overnight never goes unnoticed.
How the SMAFT File Transfer job moves a file between two legacy LSAM machines, how the machine that runs the transfer is derived from Start Transfer On, and what refuses a save, fails a dispatch, or holds the job.
How to submit a service request so you can trigger an automated workflow without building it yourself.
How to work the Processes page, including the Job and Workflow views, filters and search, single and bulk job actions, and job detail.
How thresholds gate jobs on a numeric value and resources limit how many jobs run at once, and how jobs reference both as dependencies.
The reusable building blocks you define once and use across workflows — frequencies, calendars, thresholds, resources, properties, and tags — and which are global versus workspace-scoped.
When and how to use a Null Job as a placeholder or dependency anchor to simplify workflow structure.
How to use the event log to trace what happened during a run using correlation IDs and event statuses.
How to use thresholds and resources to control concurrency and coordinate jobs that share limited capacity.
How to add and configure a Wait for File job so a workflow waits until a file has arrived and is complete before continuing.
How the Wait for File job holds a workflow until a file arrives and meets size, age, and stability criteria, and what happens on timeout, a missing file, or a restricted path.
How Classic's fixed job-type catalog maps to OpCon Continuum job types and connectors, including legacy LSAM commands.
What carries over from OpCon Classic and what does not, which capabilities to check against your own automation before you move, and what to have ready for the conversation with your Continuous contact.
A business-level overview of what OpCon Continuum can automate and why connectors matter for your bank or credit union.
How Classic machines and machine groups map to OpCon Continuum agents and agent pools, including how existing LSAM machines keep running through the relay.
How to use the Processes page to watch the daily run and act on jobs -- filter, search, and take single or bulk actions.
How a Workflow Container embeds another workflow as a step in the current one, what the container does while the nested workflow runs, and how to diagnose missing, circular, and too-deeply-nested references.