Infrastructure at your Service
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 what could be one of the root cause the host in unavailable and…
Hi everybody, today this quick topic will show us how to dissociate easily your different Control M environments. Introduction: In your daily activity on Control M, you may work on many Control M servers with different level of criticality. For example, you can perform tasks on production environment and on a testing environment but changes on your Control M GUI or on CCM may not have the same impact. So it can be…
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 the ouput explains it , there is an issue: Explanation : It is…
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 and update tool. We will use the find and update tool: To…
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 notification To call scripts We will define shout destination and test it with jobs….
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 if this user is no longer here? As if he has took 5 holidays weeks…
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: Be sure to have the old password to proceed easier.( not mandatory but easier…
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 (by selecting View schedule) Also you can list the calendars available in the tools tab…
