Control-M for Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere performs robotic process automation (RPA), enabling you to automate repetitive digital tasks.
Control-M for Automation Anywhere enables you to do the following:
- Connect to any Automation Anywhere Robot service 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.
- Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Automation Anywhere, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, quantitative and control resources, and variables.
- Run 50 Automation Anywhere jobs simultaneously per Control-M/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
- 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>"
- Linux:
- 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
- For a fresh installation, use the provision image command:
- 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
- Define an Automation Anywhere job in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
- Helix Control-M: Create a Job and then define specific Automation Anywhere parameters in Automation Anywhere Job parameters.
- Automation API: Job:Automation Anywhere
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