Control-M for Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere is a robotic process automation (RPA) software, which enables you to create bots that observe human actions in the digital workplace, identify repetitive rules-based tasks, and automate these tasks.
Control-M for Automation Anywhere enables you to do the following:
- Execute Automation Anywhere bots or processes.
- Manage Automation Anywhere credentials in a secure connection profile.
- Connect to any Automation Anywhere endpoint.
- Integrate Automation Anywhere jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
- Monitor the status, results, and output of Automation Anywhere jobs in the Monitoring domain.
- Attach an SLA job to your Automation Anywhere jobs.
- Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Automation Anywhere including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.
- Run 50 Automation Anywhere jobs simultaneously per Agent.
Control-M for Automation Anywhere Compatibility
The following table lists the prerequisite Control-M components for use of the Automation Anywhere plug-in, each with its minimum required version.
| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| Control-M/EM | 9.0.20.200 |
| Control-M/Agent | 9.0.20.200 |
| Control-M Application Integrator | 9.0.20.201 |
| Control-M Web | 9.0.20.200 |
| Control-M Automation API | 9.0.20.250 |
Control-M for Automation Anywhere is supported on Control-M Web and Control-M Automation API, but not on Control-M client.
To download the required installation files for each prerequisite, see Obtaining Control-M Installation Files.
Setting up Control-M for Automation Anywhere
This procedure describes how to deploy the Automation Anywhere plug-in, create a connection profile, and define a Automation Anywhere job in Control-M Web and Automation API.
Integration plug-ins released by BMC require an Application Integrator installation at your site. However, these plug-ins are not editable and you cannot import them into Application Integrator. To deploy these integrations to your Control-M environment, you import them directly into Control-M using Control-M Automation API.
Before You Begin
- Verify that Automation API is installed, as described in Automation API Installation.
- If you plan to run jobs simultaneously (rather than sequentially), ensure that you have enabled multi-login through Automation Anywhere. For more information, see Multi-login user in the Automation Anywhere documentation.
Begin
Create a temporary directory to save the downloaded files.
Download the Automation Anywhere plug-in from the Control-M for Automation Anywhere download page in the EPD site.
- Install the Automation Anywhere plug-in via one of the following methods:
- (9.0.21 or higher) Use the Automation API Provision service:
- Log in to the Control-M/EM Server machine as an Administrator and store the downloaded zip file in the one of the following locations (within several minutes, the job type appears in Control-M Web):
- Linux: $HOME/ctm_em/AUTO_DEPLOY
- Windows: <EM_HOME>\AUTO_DEPLOY
- Log in to the Control-M/Agent machine and run the provision image command, as follows:
- Linux: ctm provision image AAR_plugin.Linux
- Windows: ctm provision image AAR_plugin.Windows
- Log in to the Control-M/EM Server machine as an Administrator and store the downloaded zip file in the one of the following locations (within several minutes, the job type appears in Control-M Web):
- (9.0.20.200 or lower) Use the Automation API Deploy service, as described in deploy jobtype.
- (9.0.21 or higher) Use the Automation API Provision service:
- Create an Automation Anywhere connection profile in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:
- Define an Automation Anywhere job in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:
- Web: Creating a Job with Automation Anywhere Job parameters
- Automation API: Job:Automation Anywhere
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