Control-M for AWS CloudFormation

The AWS CloudFormation service enables you to create a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, and provision and manage them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

Control-M for AWS CloudFormation enables you to do the following:

• Manage AWS CloudFormation credentials in a secure connection profile.
• Connect to any AWS CloudFormation endpoint.
• Integrate AWS CloudFormation jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
• Monitor the status, results, and output of AWS CloudFormation jobs in the Monitoring domain.
• Attach an SLA job to your AWS CloudFormation jobs.
• Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for AWS CloudFormation including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.

Control-M for AWS CloudFormation Compatibility

The following table lists the prerequisites that are required to use the AWS CloudFormation plug-in, each with its minimum required version.

Component	Version
Control-M/EM	9.0.21.100
Control-M/Agent	9.0.21.100
Control-M Application Integrator	9.0.21.100
Control-M Automation API	9.0.21.125

Control-M for AWS CloudFormation 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 AWS CloudFormation

This procedure describes how to deploy the AWS CloudFormation plug-in, create a connection profile, and define an AWS CloudFormation job in Control-M Web and Automation API.

Before You Begin

Verify that Automation API is installed, as described in Automation API Installation.

Begin

1. Create a temporary directory to save the downloaded files.
2. Download the AWS CloudFormation plug-in from the Control-M for AWS CloudFormation download page in the EPD site.
3. Install the AWS CloudFormation plug-in using the Automation API Provision service:
   1. 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
   2. Log in to the Control-M/Agent machine and run the provision image command, as follows:
      • Linux: ctm provision image AWS_Cloudformation_plugin.Linux
      • Windows: ctm provision image AWS_Cloudformation_plugin.Windows
4. Create an AWS CloudFormation connection profile in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:
   • Web: Creating a Centralized Connection Profile with AWS CloudFormation Connection Profile Parameters
   • Automation API: ConnectionProfile:AWS CloudFormation
5. Define an AWS CloudFormation job in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:
   • Web: Creating a Job with AWS CloudFormation Job parameters
   • Automation API: Job:AWS CloudFormation