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:

• Connect to any Automation Anywhere endpoint from a single computer with secure login, which eliminates the need to provide authentication.
• Integrate Automation Anywhere jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
• Execute Automation Anywhere Bots or Processes.
• 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.

Setting up Control-M for Automation Anywhere

This procedure describes how to install the Automation Anywhere plug-in, create a connection profile, and define a Automation Anywhere 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 9.0.21.080 or later is installed.
• 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

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 AAR_plugin.Linux
     • Windows: ctm provision image AAR_plugin.Windows
   • For an upgrade, use the following command:
     ctm provision agent::update
3. Create an Automation Anywhere connection profile in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
   • Helix Control-M: Creating a Centralized Connection Profile with Automation Anywhere Connection Profile Parameters
   • Automation API: ConnectionProfile:Automation Anywhere
4. Define an Automation Anywhere job in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
   • Helix Control-M: Creating a Job with Automation Anywhere Job parameters
   • Automation API: Job:Automation Anywhere