“Workload Policies enable you to control, manage, and balance the workload on Control-M resources and hosts<\/strong>. A Workload Policy uses filters to group together jobs and applies rules to those jobs to limit their impact on the workload”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically I use a workload policy to hold specific jobs during a specific period , for example for maintenance matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You have many possibilities to use Control-M’s workload policy, which makes it a very powerful tool for your daily tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a reminder let’s see how to create update and delete your workload policies<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also review some interesting topics regarding it by checking my colleague Marc Wagner’s blog<\/a> and also my other blogs related to Workload Policy<\/strong> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here I have restricted job’s execution between a specific time window ( from 9h15 to 23h30 NO <\/strong>defined in the Job Name\/Mem Name<\/strong> field will run )<\/p>\n\n\n\n As you can see you can play on many ways with Workload policies , maybe will go deeper during another Blog post \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can’t exceed 20 characters when you define your Workload Policy name<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some info from the excellent BMC Site<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Control-M Reports tool enables you to create and generate ad hoc reports using data collected from your environment, as described in Creating a Report Template<\/a>. Control-M provides default categories that include report templates that you can use to view specific information and generate reports, as described in Generating a Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can use the report templates in the following categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I will probably make other topics on BMC Reports as it is a powerful tool combined with the audit option to get a lot of info on each Control-M components and also to generate many types of Reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For our case it will only be used to show who is the workload policy creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First of all we have to enable audit in the Control-M Configuration Manager ( tick the boxes one for enabling annotations and one fore enabling audit )<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For testing Purpose we will use 2 users ( my user and a test user to create the Workload policy then I will check from my user or an admin user if I can catch the username who created this policy )<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the demonstration purpose on how to use the reporting tool to get info on Workload policy creation, I created a Workload policy with a test user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then I will connect with my user (or an admin user) to see if Workload policy information are displaying<\/p>\n\n\n\n We can see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will note the details of the workload policy created named workload _for_audit <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Now I will open a new Control-M Client Window with my user<\/p>\n\n\n\n I update the Workload policy description by adding a dot and save the parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We can see that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s it !You can now see the Workload Policy<\/strong> creator and the creation date \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now we see that I made some changes with my user na******* ( check the username date and audit operation to have all the info.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You also have the host name, which is even better<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also directly generate a report and send it later or re-use it for your audit operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also share your reports with other users ( also the reports templates \ud83d\ude42 ) <\/p>\n\n\n\n We will probably see that in a new blog!<\/p>\n\n\n\n You have so much components you can monitor with this tool, it’s absolutely great !<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n You now have the keys to investigate deeper on Control-M and have a good way to monitor action done on your infrastructure \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n Control-M offers many possibilities to sort what you need, here we found who is the Workload Polic<\/strong>y Creator but you can have loads of options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can for example find who forced\/ordered a job or who deleted a folder, we will see that maybe next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For me moment I invite you to check my other blogs<\/a> and also take a look at dbi bloggers<\/a> to share with us some knowledge and also some tips and tricks on you favorite tools !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduction: Control-M gives us many ways to get info about jobs , for example by checking their definition , or checking their execution log or the Alert viewer,checking their execution their scheduling and so on. There is also ways to monitor other Control-M components such as resources,database update,communication between Control-M components.. Everything depends of what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1256],"tags":[667,717],"type_dbi":[],"class_list":["post-23662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-control-m","tag-audit","tag-control-m"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCreate a Workload Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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