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Agent | An application that executes a specific task in a workflow. There are three types of agents: collection, processing and forwarding agents. |
Analysis Programming Language | A structured programming language, used by the Analysis and Aggregation agents to analyze or manipulate UDR fields. |
Asynchronous agent | An asynchronous agent enables the workflow to process multiple UDRs simultaneously by using a queue for each output route. |
Batch | A file, containing external data records, that can only be collected by offline workflows. Offline workflows are also referred to as batch workflows. |
Begin Batch | Indicates the start of a data batch to be fed into a workflow. All collection agents emit Begin Batch messages at the beginning of a data batch. |
Cancel Batch | A message to cancel the current batch, initiated by any agent configured to do so. |
Collection Agent | An agent that collects and inserts data into workflows, including file based and UDR based collectors. |
Configuration | Configurations inin Image Added include all the objects that you find in the Configuration Browser, for example, workflow configurations, agent profiles, workflow groups, Ultra formats, or alarm detectors. |
Data Batch | The data transferred through a Workflow between a Begin Batch and End Batch message. In file based mediation, a data batch often contains a complete file. |
EC Deployment | A new concept in Image Added 10 to hold a single EC with all its resources and workflows as one complete package that will execute, scale and balance on its own. |
End Batch | Indicates the end of a data batch fed into a Workflow. |
Execution Context | Execution Contexts are responsible for executing workflows. |
Forwarding Agent | An agent that distributes data from workflows. |
Meta Information Model | MIM - Some agents in a workflow need information from the workflow or other agents in order to operate. For example, an agent that produces a file might need the source file name and the number of processed UDRs to be used in the outgoing file name. Image Added uses the Meta Information Model to enable this. |
MIM resource | An identifier for a specific resource, published by the Workflow or an agent. MIM resources are static during the workflow execution. |
MIM value | The current value of a MIM resource. MIM resources can be assigned their values either statically, or when receiving Begin Batch or End Batch messages. |
MZ_HOME | The installation directory. |
Pico Configuration | A set of attributes that defines a pico instance. |
Pico Instance | A segment ofof Image Added that is also a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Pico Instances can be of the different types: - Execution Context (EC)
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Platform | A core part of of Image Added that is responsible for providing services to other pico instances. |
Processing Agent | An agent that processes data in a workflow. In a workflow, a processing agent can either have one incoming and one outgoing data stream, or just one incoming data stream. |
Profile | A global configuration that is used by the agents. Some agents require a profile to finalize the configuration of the agent. |
Related UDRs | Partial UDRs that originate from the same long-duration data exchange between two devices. |
Session | An information record that samples that Image Added samples at any time during execution of a workflow. This record enables a recovery of the exact status of the workflow, when a failover occurs. In Image Added, a session is considered to be closed either when a timeout occurs or when a predefined closing criteria (an APL if condition) is met. A session remains active until it is removed with the sessionRemove() function. |
Synchronous Agent | A synchronous agent finishes processing of each UDR before it retrieves the next UDR in the queue. |
System | A A Image Added system, refers to a Platform and any number of Execution Contexts. |
Ultra | format Image Added format management system. |
Ultra Format Definition Language | UFDL - An enriched programming language used to describe the physical structure of incoming and outgoing (external) data, internal (working) formats, as well as decoding and encoding rules. |
Usage Detail Record | UDR - thethe Image Added translation of what otherwise is known as CDR, Call Detail Record. |
Workflow | AA Image Added workflow is an executable object that is represented by a Workflow Table row in a Workflow configuration, an Execution Manager row, and a Workflow Monitor view. A workflow is included in a workflow configuration. You define a Workflow in the workflow configuration, further described in the Desktop User's Guide. |
Workflow Configuration | A Workflow configuration consists of: - A process-definition of agents and the routes between them (referred to as a template)
- Workflow Properties
- One or several workflow table rows (see Workflow)
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Workflow Group | A group of workflows that are configured as a single entity and share criteria for scheduling and execution. |