Glossary

An instruction that you can set for any task.

Context-sensitive menu containing a set of actions that you can take on a list of records or one or more individual records.

In a Universal Controller High Availability environment, the Cluster Node that currently is performing all system processing functions. (See Passive Cluster Node.)

An instance that is not in any of these statuses: Skipped (180), Finished (190), Success (200).

A single installation of Universal Agent.

A user-defined group of Agents from which the Universal Controller selects an Agent to run the task in which the Agent Cluster is identified.

(See Tomcat.)

A set of functions, procedures, methods, classes, or protocols that an operating system, library, or service provides to support requests made by computer programs.

A feature of Universal Controller that allows you to use it as a network control and monitoring tool. You can use Application Monitoring and Control to start, stop, and query any application running on any machine where you have a Universal Agent installed and running.

Transmission of data or sending of messages without the need to wait for a reply from the destination before continuing with the next operation.

A record of a user interaction with Universal Controller.

Universal Agent components that start automatically when the Universal Broker starts and run until they are stopped manually.

Variables maintained by Universal Controller that provide information about task instances, triggers, agents, and Controllers (Cluster Nodes) and that can be used in free text fields on trigger variable values, tasks, task actions, and notifications (for agents, connectors, and cluster nodes).

A Server Operation that exports all current record definitions when migrating data, in bulk, from an existing Universal Controller deployment to a new Universal Controller deployment (compare with List Export).

A Server Operation that imports all data from an exported file when migrating data, in bulk, from an existing Universal Controller deployment to a new Universal Controller deployment (compare with List Import).

An installation package, available only for the AIX Operating system, that combines an Universal Controller with Apache Tomcat.

A Universal Controller feature that lets you bundle a group of Universal Controller records and promote (copy) them from one Universal Controller server to another.

A feature of Universal Controller that lets you organize data into groups of related information. This could be used for assigning permissions to users and/or user groups that belong to specific Business Services, sorting and displaying information on the user interface, generating reports.

An SAP system for which the Universal Connector component of Universal Agent enables the external automation of work using both Process Chains and InfoPackages.

A trusted third-party organization that issues digital certificates used to create digital signatures and public-private key pairs, guaranteeing that the individual granted the unique certificate is, in fact, who he or she claims to be.

A Universal Controller record that defines business days, holidays, and other special days. Universal Controller uses calendars, in conjunction with triggers, to define when tasks are run.

Medium used to convey information from sender to receiver.

(See Command Line Interface.)

The fault tolerance feature of Universal Agent that allows Universal Connector to be shut down and restarted at a later time.

(See Agent Cluster.)

Specification to run a task on all agents in an agent cluster. Each instance of the task, running on its own agent, becomes a separate task instance record in the database and displays separately in the Activity monitor.

A single instance of an Universal Controller. A High Availability environment of Universal Automation Center contains a minimum of two cluster nodes.

A set of commands that perform specific actions on a Universal Controller.

A set of standard rules for data representation, signaling, authentication, and error detection required to send information over a communications channel.

A text file of options that defines Universal Agent component-specific information required by the Universal Broker.

A Universal Controller record that provides information about a server. There are three types of Universal Controller Connections: Email, Database, and SAP.

An application environment that provides a runtime environment offering services such as security, authentication, transaction management, and deployment to an application developer, thus enabling a faster implementation and rollout.

(See Universal Controller.)

The user ID and password under which an Agent runs tasks on the machine where the Agent resides.

The ability to monitor the Critical Path (longest route) through a Workflow.

A Universal Controller record that defines a single one-time date, a repeating date, or a list of dates. Custom days are attached to calendars.

A Universal Controller user interface screen displaying user-selected Widgets that provide a composite look at information commonly referred to throughout the day.

A Universal Event Monitor server that is started by Universal Broker when the Universal Broker receives a request to do so from one of the UEM client applications (the Universal Event Monitor Manager or UEMLoad). Since a user request drives the start-up of the UEM Server process, the process is said to be executed on demand; hence the term demand-driven Server. (See Event-Driven Server.)

A Public/private key.

A Public/private key.

Tools that are used for the unrestricted sharing of data and business processes throughout the networked applications or data sources in an organization.

A Universal Event Monitor Server that typically is started automatically during Universal Broker start-up. A UEM client application (the Universal Event Monitor Manager or UEMLoad) is not required to start an event-driven Server. (See Demand-Driven Server.)

System-supplied ID of the user who manually launched a task.

Universal Controller tasks that have been set so that they are mutually exclusive (see Mutually Exclusive Tasks).

(See Bulk Export and List Export.)

The capabilities of specific Universal Agent components to recover or restart from error conditions. (See Fault Tolerance Implementation.)

A Universal Controller calculation of when triggers will be satisfied and which tasks will be run.

A type of Variable that calculates a value or performs a function.

A type of Widget on the Universal Controller home page that displays Controller system information.

A law enabling the consolidation of commercial banks, investment banks, securities firms and insurance companies.

A Universal Controller user-defined variable that is available for any Controller trigger, task, or workflow.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: a law that serves to protect health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs.

A Universal Controller system containing multiple cluster nodes. At any given point in time, one cluster node is Active: it performs all system processing functions. One or more other Passive cluster nodes are available to become the Active cluster node.

The page that displays when you log in to Universal Controller. It contains a set of user-selected Widgets.

A synchronous request / reply protocol, is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web to define how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands.

The Universal Enterprise Controller Client Application that provides end-to-end visibility of workload management activity throughout your Universal Agent environment via a graphical user interface.

The Universal Enterprise Controller Client Application that lets you maintain information on all Agents that Universal Enterprise Controller monitors and the SAP systems to which Universal Enterprise Controller has access.

The Universal Enterprise Controller Client Application that provides a graphical user interface for remote configuration of all Stonebranch Agents in an enterprise from a single machine.

(See Bulk Import and List Import.)

Former name (pre-5.2.0 release) of Universal Agent.

Former name (pre-5.2.0 release) of Universal Data Mover.

A web application (webapp) that is accessed via a web browser over the Internet.

Internet workload is any application, service, or function that operates in an Internet environment, such as web applications or container applications, and supports an Internet-based communication protocol such as HTTP or SOAP.

An API that provides a standard way for Java programs to access and interact with an enterprise asynchronous messaging system. JMS uses both point-to-point (queue-based) and publish / subscribe (topic-based) messaging patterns.

Component that allows the sending and receiving of JMS messages between applications.

An application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an IP network. You can set up Universal Controller to use LDAP authentication for running tasks on Agents and for user logins.

Combined with the Federated architecture of the current Universal Controller line, this architecture provides your enterprise with a loosely coupled, scalable, and secure solution to your enterprise workload management tasks.

An export of displayed information on a list into any of seven formats (compare with Bulk Export).

An import of valid XML files (usually from a List Export) from a user-defined location (compare with Bulk Import).

A component that listens for a message from an application or service.

Name for Server Operations in pre-6.1.0 versions of Universal Controller.

The mode of operations for Universal Broker that "locks down" the configuration information for all Universal Agent components managed by that Universal Broker so that the information can be modified only via the I-Management Console. (See Unmanaged Mode.)

The fault tolerance feature of Universal Agent that allows Universal Command components to be shut down and restarted at a later time.

Universal Agent component that provides client services initiating requests on behalf of the user (for example, a Universal Command manager batch job requesting the execution of a command on a remote server).

Abstract format, or container, for sending data between applications or services. No implementation is implied.

The Opswise Automation Center 5.1.0 Outboard component that relays messages from the outbound message queue from the Universal Controller to the Agents, and writes messages to the inbound message queue from the Agents to the Universal Controller.

Accesses a target application by sending a message to a queue that is controlled by the target application. This queue must be known and accessible to the application sending the message. Application accessed via a web browser over the Internet or Intranet.

Any application, service, or function that supports a message-based communication protocol such as JMS or MQ.

The pattern of messages required by a communications protocol in order to establish or use a communication channel.

Supports workload execution via the MQ messaging protocol using synchronous and asynchronous communication.