BMC Control-M workload automation in practice: installation, agents, job scheduling, integrations, upgrades and daily operations.
Introduction For security purposes we sometimes must update the password of our Control M architecture. This task seems to be easy, but you must be careful to update the passwords wherever they are used. Today we will check how to update the password of our Control M infrastructure including application user and database owner for each of our databases. Prerequisites…
In a previous blog I talked about the emdef utility and how it can help to manage and standardize calendars across multiple environments. In this blog we will deal with folders definitions in the Control-M/EM database. This can be used to extract data as a backup, or for migration from one to another environment. The emdef need some parameters which…
The emdef is a command line utility used to make various modifications to calendar definitions in the Control-M/EM database. It can be used to extract data as a backup, or for migration from one to another environment. The emdef need some parameters which vary according to the method to be executed, methods related calendars are: copydefcal: Creates a new calendar…
Control-M: Export/Import Calendars Introduction: What is a Control M Calendar? A Control M calendar is used to schedule Control M jobs that are assigned to him: For example the job named JOB_TEST will be executed depending of the days and rules defined in the calendar named CALENDAR_EXAMPLE_1 : You can see that the job is scheduled following the calendars rules…
Working as a control-M administrator, we are often requested to hold jobs or stop jobs during a period of time. Holding jobs and updating the job configuration might not be the most efficient way to do this. Workload policies is making your life really easier, giving you the possibility to configure such modification in advance and to let the system…
In this post, I would like to share how to implement automatic Start and Stop for CONTROL-M/Server, CONTROL-M/Agent and CONTROL-M/EM running on Oracle linux 7 individual servers, by implementing some updates in the existing BMC procedure and script. The CONTROL-M should be running version 9 and we are using the internal PostgreSQL database. The user created for CONTROL-M/Server and CONTROL-M/Agent…
