Control-M for Ansible AWX

Ansible AWX jobs enable you to manage Ansible playbooks, inventories, and job scheduling.

Control-M for Ansible AWX enables you to do the following:

• Execute any of the following Ansible AWX job actions:
  • Launch job templates.
  • Launch workflow templates.
  • Synchronize inventory sources
  • Synchronize projects.
• Manage Ansible AWX credentials in a secure connection profile.
• Connect to any Ansible AWX endpoint.
• Integrate Ansible AWX jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
• Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Ansible AWX, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.
• Monitor the job status, results, and output of Ansible AWX jobs.
• Attach an SLA job to the Ansible AWX jobs.

Setting up Control-M for Ansible AWX

This procedure describes how to install the Ansible AWX plug-in, create a connection profile, and define an Ansible AWX job in Helix Control-M and Automation API.

Before you Begin

• Verify that Automation API is installed, as described in Setting up the API.
• Verify that Agent version 9.0.21.200 or later is installed.

Begin

1. On the Agent host, set the Java environment variable by running one of the following commands through a command line:
   • Linux:
     • Bourne shell/bash: export BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME=<java_11_directory>
     • csh/tcsh: setenv BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME <java_11_directory>
   • Windows: set BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME="<java_11_directory>"
2. Run one of the following API commands:
   • For a fresh installation, use the provision image command:
     • Linux: ctm provision image Ansible_AWX_plugin.Linux
     • Windows: ctm provision image Ansible_AWX_plugin.Windows
   • For an upgrade, use the following command:
     ctm provision agent::update
3. Create an Ansible AWX connection profile in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
   • Helix Control-M: Creating a Centralized Connection Profile with Ansible AWX Connection Profile Parameters
   • Automation API: ConnectionProfile:Ansible AWX
4. Define an Ansible AWX job in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
   • Helix Control-M: Creating a Job with Ansible AWX Job parameters
   • Automation API: Job:Ansible AWX