BPA Server Conditions

Conditions add intelligence to workflows by providing awareness of network-wide system events and state.

Conditions are closely correlated with the system, application, and network events that transpire across the automation network. In addition to the events themselves, conditions also encapsulate state changes that events produce. For example, the appearance of a file in a network share is an event, and the existence of that file is a state. Both the event and the state are conditions – the event is "when the file exists" and the state is "if the file exists."

Thus, conditions can be used to initiate workflows (i.e., trigger workflow A when file X appears), wait for certain events to transpire before proceeding in a workflow (i.e., wait for Notepad to appear), or to make a decision and conditional branch within the workflow (i.e., evaluate whether Notepad is open – if yes, execute Task 1; if no, execute Task 2).

AutoMate BPA Server Conditions

• Schedule Watcher

  

  Evaluates as true at the date, time or interval specified. It can be used for scheduling tasks to run at night or at the end of every day, week, month or other time frame.

• Folder Watcher

  

  Monitors the Windows file system for file additions, modification, or deletions in the folder(s) specified, and evaluates as true when a criterion is met.

• Performance Watcher

  

  Evaluates as true when a system or process threshold is met. Parameters include available memory, free disk space, CPU utilization, process count, and more.

• Event Log Watcher

  

  Evaluates as true when an event matching specified criteria is added to a Windows Event Log.

• Service Watcher

  

  Evaluates as true when the specified service starts, stops, pauses, resumes or stops responding.

• Process Watcher

  

  Evaluates as true when the specified process starts, ends or stops responding.

• Startup Watcher

  

  Evaluates as true when the AutoMate task service starts or when a user logs onto the system.

• Idle Watcher

  

  Evaluates as true when no keyboard or mouse input occurs for a specified period of time.

• Window Watcher

  

  Evaluates as true when the specified window opens, closes, is focused or loses focus.

• Key Watcher

  

  Evaluates as true when a hotkey is pressed or a word is typed on the keyboard. The event can be configured to occur only when a specific application has focus.

• SNMP Trap Watcher

  

  Evaluates as true when an SNMP Trap meeting specified criteria is received.

• WMI

  

  Evaluates as true when a WQL query returns true or more than zero rows.