Does your department manager always hound you for emails of up-to-date reports and analyses? No problem, with a Shell or PowerShell script you can easily handle that. And in Automic, you handle it with SEND_MAIL. However, I want to show you another elegant solution which also works in Automic: Notification Objects. You can download these objects at [...]
There‘ s a new video on my Youtube Channel: I am presenting another feature of the Automation Engine V11. This time, I am tackling the External Interpreter. The External Interpreter allows you to use external interpreters for Unix and Windows within the Automation Engine. At first, I show you how to configure the variable objects [...]
In seinem Kommentar zu meinem ersten Blogpost, hat Thierry mich um einen Artikel zu dem Thema gebeten. Und nachdem ich bei der Automic World in Berlin dieses Jahr bei meinem Vortrag kurz darüber sprach, landeten einige Fragen dazu in meiner Mailbox. Das Thema scheint bei einigen von Ihnen also auf großes Interesse zu stoßen. Es [...]
In his comment regarding my first Blogpost, Thierry has aked me for an article on this subject. And since I spoke briefly on this subject at the Automic World in Berlin, I’ve received several emails. This tells me that the subject is of great interest to some of you. It is about the Curly Brackets [...]
This was supposed to happen already last year: The U.S. debut of the Automation Engine Database Knowledge Workshop (DBKWS) The Automic World Conference took place in Scottsdale, AZ and I had everything prepared in cooperation with Automic – and then something happened and I had to cancel the workshop. That’s why I’m even happier to announce [...]
Letztes Jahr im November sollte es eigentlich schon so weit sein: Das US-Debut des Automation Engine Database Knowledge Workshops (DBKWS). Die Automic World Konferenz fand in Scottsdale statt und alles war in Kooperation mit Automic vorbereitet. Aber dann kam es anders und der Termin musste abgesagt werden. Umso mehr freue ich mich, dass es dieses [...]
The Automation Engine Version 11 brought many new features. In my Workshops, I often notice that many users don't know the new objects and still use Automic the same way, they did with the older versions. Thus they are missing out on a lot of functionality. To counter that, I decided to create and publish a [...]
Two weeks ago, Joel Wiesmann introduced his Tool Workflow Visio(n) for the visualization of workflows here in this blog. When I first heard about this tool, I was quite enthusiastic about it. Joel demonstrated it to me personally and had me convinced of its usefulness right away. That made me think immediately about another user [...]
Passwörter sollten nie im Klartext stehen. Punkt. Bis zur Automic Version 9 hatte man aber ein Problem: Für den Zugriff auf Backend-Systeme (wie z.B. Datenbanken) benötigt man meist einen User plus Passwort. Dabei gab es keine Möglichkeit, das Passwort für die Verwendung in der Script-Karte zu verschlüsseln. Jeder Nutzer konnte es lesen. Das hat sich [...]
Passwords should never be visible in clear text. Period. However, with Automic up to Version 9, there was a problem: Accessing backend systems (like databases) requires a username and a password. There was no possibility of encrypting a password for usage in the Process-Tab. All users could read it. Luckily, that has changed now. [...]
