Collection and forwarding agents that are based on batch agents can be included in real-time workflows. This allows you to use various file oriented protocols, and to access your batch data directly from a real-time workflow.

The collection and forwarding agents that are available are:

• Disk
• FTP
• SCP
• SFTP

When you have selected to create a real-time workflow, you can select these agents from the lists of collection and forwarding agents in the agent pane.

A real-time workflow with a batch-based agent:

• Can process several UDRs simultaneously, but the order of UDR processing is not guaranteed.
• The Begin and End Batch are signaled to the workflow.
• Decoder, error management and scheduling are defined as part of the collection agent configuration.
• If the agent encounters an error which would cause a batch workflow to abort, instead behavior depends on how the agent is configured in the Execution tab. 
  
  

This section includes the following subsections:

• Batch-Based Real-Time Agents - Agent Configuration(3.1)
• Batch-Based Real-Time Agents - Agent Events(3.1)
• Batch-Based Real-Time Agents - Input/Output Data and MIM(3.1)
• Batch-Based Real-Time Agents - Transaction Behavior(3.1)
• Batch-Based Real-Time Agents - UDR Types(3.1)