BMC Control-M workload automation in practice: installation, agents, job scheduling, integrations, upgrades and daily operations.
Hi everybody Introduction For some test purpose I wanted to export my folders but with some fields missing ( for example the host name or the “run as” field ) but as you know it’s not possible to do such a task. Indeed ,when you define your jobs in the planning domain , before any check-in task , Control-M will…
Introduction Hi team I had a request to block a bunch of jobs in order to allow another to perform a maintenance task on the related servers/applications , but only for specific date and time window(example for next Thursday from 5h to 14h) So what is the best solution? Wake up at 5 am and perform a hold on all…
At a customer, we are preparing an upgrade to Control-M 21. As you know the first step is to have a look on what’s new, what’s changed, corrected/known issues and of course the compatibility for the new version 9.0.21. This new version seems very interesting, let me introduce it to you. Whats New? Below some of interesting news in Control-M…
BMC Software requests yearly a licencing report of the usage of Control-M at the customer site, for that they send you a request to generate a report by using a Usage Reporting Tool provided by them and send back the the generated Report. When I tried to use the tool, I encountered an issue (java), I was using the version…
Normally we can trigger an On Do Action based on string found in the Job Output. But we would like to do the same for a Job log, that feature doesn’t exist, but there is a way to make it working. Let’s see how to proceed. Introduction For example: as a use case: See the blog How to automate a…
Hi team, today we will see how to restrict the Control-M utility when using your remote hosts. we will perform a quick test to show how it works before the modification , then after. first of all ,we will create two jobs to give an example, each using a control m utility command : One using ctmpsm command which allow…
Hi Everybody, Today we will see how to use jobs as code with Control-M.We are aware that Jenkins is able to do that, but now we will try the new BMC product called Control-M Automation API. As described by BMC ,it is a set of programmatic interfaces that give developers and DevOps engineers access to the capabilities of Control-M within…
Hello everybody, I recently faced issues when using some control-m features on EDGE and Chrome.Indeed I was not able to get my folder exported in XML format, something was blocking. Issue description When clicking on the export button nothing happens, usually we have a pop-up with file to download or download starting. So I tried to figure out by sneaking…
Hi guys,and girls of course 😉 Sometimes we have to make some cleanup on our Control-m folders and also we have to keep them disabled (we never know if one day the can be used again by a new agent) so when the folder and the job are depending of one agent it is quite easy to do that (…
Hi team, When installing a brand new control-M server on your machine,you may encounter issues related to Control-M installation prerequisite. That was my case on my Virtual machine,we will see how to fix it quickly. System configuration: Issue encountered during installation: machine: [root@localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 24 11:32:19 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64…
introduction Hi team! Today lets check how to install more Control-M feature on our agents,this can be useful ,moreover you can add your own plug-ins! Below we will see how to give more possibilities to your agent Install application pack using CCM select Manage->New Activity->Application pack->Upgrade/Install add a description of you task then check send application pack to Control-M agents…
Introduction Hi everybody Today it’s not about Control-M jobs but about Jenkins jobs ,Jenkins allows you also to schedule jobs and below we will see how to make it cyclic. First , we will create a job using Jenkins graphic web interface How to create a job Connect to Jenkins interface with your login/password -Select new item -Select freestyle build…
