Tutorials - Setting up the prerequisites

The following steps describe how to set up your environment to run the various tutorials.

Step 1 - Clone the GitHub repository

Fetch tutorial samples from GitHub and run git clone to create a local copy of the source code.

git clone https://github.com/controlm/automation-api-quickstart.git

Step 2 - Obtain access to Control-M Automation API

Control-M Automation API is a REST API interface over HTTPS. You can either install Control-M Workbench or access a Control-M instance where you must have Control-M credentials.

Step 3 - Install Control-M Automation CLI

To run the tutorials you need a working Control-M CLI. Refer to the Control-M Automation CLI  installation guide. Follow the steps for the relevant platform.

Step 4 - Set up a Control-M environment

The Control-M Automation CLI requires an environment to run the commands. An environment is a combination of an endpoint and API token, or a combination of an endpoint, username, and password.

An endPoint is the URI for Control-M Automation API. The endpoint has the following format:

https://<controlmEndPointHost>:8443/automation-api

Use one of the following commands to add an environment:

• A command to add an environment named devEnvironment with an API token specified:

  ctm environment add devEnvironment "https://<controlmEndPointHost>:8443/automation-api" "<token>"

  You can obtain your first API token through the Control-M user interface, as described in Creating an API Token. For more information about API tokens, see Authentication service.

• A command to add an environment named devEnvironment with a username and password specified:

  ctm environment add devEnvironment "https://<controlmEndPointHost>:8443/automation-api" "<ControlmUser>" "<ControlmPassword>"

• If you installed Control-M Workbench, you can also use the following command to add an environment for the Workbench:

  ctm environment workbench::add

Step 5 - Set the environment as default

When you set up your first environment, it is automatically set as the default environment that is used by any API commands that you invoke. In such a case, you can skip this step. Later, after defining additional environments, perform this step to set the default environment of your choice.

In the following example, the Control-M Workbench is set as the default environment. The returned response lists the single environment that is currently defined and notifies you that it is set as the default environment.

> ctm environment set workbench

info:    current environment: workbench
info:    environments: {
  "workbench": {
    "endPoint": "https://localhost:8443/automation-api",
    "user": "workbench"
  }
}

In the following example, devEnvironment (a Control-M instance) is set as the default environment, and the returned response lists all existing environments.

> ctm environment set devEnvironment

info:    current environment: devEnvironment
info:    environments: {
  "local": {
    "endPoint": "http://localhost:48080/",
    "user": ""
  },
  "devEnvironment": {
    "endPoint": "https://<controlmEndPointHost>:8443/automation-api",
    "user": "<controlmUser>"
  }
}

Step 6 - Verify the setup by running an API command

To verify that setup was successful, you can run your first API command. Here are a couple of suggestions for your first API command:

• Obtain information about the Control-M Servers by running the config servers::get API command:
  

  > ctm config servers::get
  
  {
    "name": "controlm",
    "host": "myhost",
    "state": "Up",
    "message": "Connected",
    "version": "9.0.21.000"
  }

  
  

• If you created the Control-M environment for CLI using a username and password, log in to Control-M and return a session token by running the session login API command: 

  > ctm session login
  
  {
    "username": "emuser",
    "token": "E14A4F8E45406977B31A1B091E5E04237D81C91B47AA1CE0F3FFAE252AEFE63ADE182E5702F5A9131A2DA0A8E8AE76D7C3CCBA0B7",
    "version": "9.0.21"
  }

Step 7 - Access documentation

You can access the REST API documentation for this environment:

ctm documentation restApi

To access this web-based API documentation:

ctm doc gettingStarted