BMC Control-M workload automation in practice: installation, agents, job scheduling, integrations, upgrades and daily operations.
Introduction Hi everybody,today let’s see an easy way to order a folder at a specific hour/date instead of being ordered directly by the new day procedure. To do so, we will use the ctmudly utility. Ctmudly command To order a folder depending of a specific user daily we will use this syntax (connected as controlm) ctmduly -DAILY_NAME ENTER_YOUR_USER_DAILY_NAME Be careful…
introduction Hi everybody, Today we will check how to remove the display of the command line from your jobs outputs in some case it can be asked to only have the result of the script, for example when attaching it in mail sent to a customer. use the ctmunixcfg utility first step is to open a command line and connect…
Introduction Hi everybody, making jobs has never been such easier in using mass create utility, easy also to increment with counter feature (ex: JOB1,JOB2,JOB3) but sometimes we may not have the expected result,especially when you do mass update for 2 different folders.Let’s see that: You already know how to do mass update, if not check on of my previous posts…
Hello everybody, today we will see how to send Control-M alerts to a central monitoring software Introduction The aim is to send alerts and logs from Control-M to an event manager system such as Patrol/ BMC Truesight or Nagios. We will see together how to link Control-M to a central monitoring tool,and for that,Control-M admin and monitoring admin must work…
Hello everybody, Introduction Today we will try to debug a classic case of schedulers: The wait host status. Context: On monitoring domain, one or more jobs are not submitted to the host then are in blue (wait host) status Example: The aim is to know what is happening to this job and fix it Analysis The aim is to troubleshoot…
Introduction: When launching jobs you may have this kind of issue job submission aborted due to error in executing ‘/bin/su’ The purpose of this post is to resolve it and to explain why you can get this issue We created a job with user controlm to execute a basic command: When it was ordered and submitted the issue occurred: As…
Introduction We had a request to automate a kill of some executing jobs in AJF at specific date and time. For example: A Control-M job is running a script all day, in order other programs can connect to it, but the script has to be stopped at a specific time. There are several ways to manage that, such as: using…
Introduction We are back today to write about a powerful tool that we can use to update our folders Question Suppose you have to update two jobs of your folder; the task should be easy But what happens when you must update 50 jobs in a restricted delay? Solution To get this easier and smarter we will use the find…
Introduction Today we will check how to use notification by using shout destination table, indeed sometime it could be useful to be notified about our jobs status ( long execution, late submission failure etc..). For that kind of need we can use job notifications through shout method. We will explain it below: We will use shout destination table to manage…
Introduction Definition of a workspace It is a board letting you create and update folders and jobs, once you work ended and saved into the base the workspace can be deleted. Sometimes when you want to work on a folder and edit it (Check in) you can be stuck by someone else “working” on it: But how can you proceed…
At a customer, we are upgrading Control-M Agents running on Windows/Unix from 9.0.00.400 to 9.0.19.200 using Agent Deployment, an upgrade of one agent fails with error talking about communication issue between Control-M/server and Control-M agent: Testing Communication with Control-M/Server using new Control-M/Agent binaries failed, Control-M/Agent Upgrade aborted, please check Log and agent installation requirements On the other hand, the agent…
The emdef is a command line utility used to make various modifications to job definitions in the Control-M/EM database. we saw how emdef can help to manage Calendars and Folders, today it the Jobs turn so let’s deep in 😉 The emdef need some parameters which vary according to the method to be executed, methods related to Jobs management are:…
