Control-M for Power BI

Power BI is an interactive data visualization software product developed by Microsoft with primary focus on business intelligence.

Control-M for Power BI enables you to do the following:

• Connect to any Power BI workspace from a single computer with secure login, which eliminates the need to provide authentication.
• Integrate Power BI jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
• Monitor the Power BI workspace status and view the results in the Monitoring domain.
• Attach an SLA job to your entire Power BI service.
• Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Power BI, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, quantitative and control resources, and variables.
• Run 50 Power BI jobs simultaneously per Control-M/Agent.

Control-M for Power BI Compatibility

Control-M for Power BI supports integration with the Power BI Cloud (SaaS) solution, but not with Power BI on-Premises.

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

Control-M for Power BI 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 Power BI in Azure

To enable proper function of the Control-M for Power BI plug-in, you must perform several setup tasks in Azure. These tasks are described in Setting Up for Power BI in Azure.

Setting up Control-M for Power BI

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

NOTE: 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.

Begin

1. Create a temporary directory to save the downloaded files.

2. Click http://www.bmc.com/available/epd and follow the instructions on the EPD site to download the Power BI plug-in from the Control-M Integrations page, or go directly to the Control-M for Power BI download page.

3. Deploy the Power BI job via Automation API, as described in deploy jobtype.
4. Create a Power BI connection profile in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:
   • Web: Creating a Centralized Connection Profile with Power BI Connection Profile Parameters
   • Automation API:  ConnectionProfile:Power BI
5. Define a Power BI job in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:
   • Web: Create a Job and then define specific Power BI parameters in Power BI Job parameters.
   • Automation API: Job:Power BI