Powertech Work Management

Powertech installs a work management subsystem called PTWRKMGT with Exit Point Manager. This allows Powertech products to submit long-running batch jobs without interfering with customer job queues. The PTWRKMGT library installed with Exit Point Manager consists of a subsystem description and a class description. PTWRKMGT is first activated when a product needs to use it, for example, when the summary job for captured transactions starts. The work management subsystem also is used by other Powertech products. If you already have another Powertech product installed on your system, PTWRKMGT will not be installed again.

There are three jobs in PTWRKMGT that are exclusive to Exit Point Manager: SUMCAPTRAN, PTNSGMSTR, and PNSEVTMON. SUMCAPTRAN summarizes captured transactions for further display. PTNSGMSTR collects transaction statistics for Insite's Dashboard. PNSEVTMON is a monitor job required for user profile rules.

The three other jobs that run in the PTWRKMGT subsystem are PPLCMNMON, PPLCMNSVR and PPLEVTMON. These are used by Central Administration to communicate between the systems. For example, these jobs are responsible for handling product license key distribution, auditing, and sending rules from the Manager to the Endpoint systems.

Changing the default wait time for PTWRKMGT class

Each monitor has a 30-second delay allowed (by default) for reporting back that it is ending. You can raise the delay time if any of the following conditions apply to your system(s):

• The system is slow
• The system has a large number of entries
• The system leaves monitors running for an extended period or has environments that generate excessive job logs

To change the default wait time, enter the following command and press F4:

CHGCLS PTWRKMGT/PTWRKMGT

When the Change Class screen displays, you can customize the default wait time. (You also can access this screen by using the WRKCLS PTWRKMGTIPTWRKMGT command.)