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Control-M for Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus is an enterprise message broker for applications that require message delivery and routing capabilities. Azure Service Bus supports point-to-point message queues and one-to-many publish/subscribe messaging.

Control-M for Azure Service Bus enables you to do the following:

  • Publish notifications to Azure Service Bus message queues and topics.
  • Manage Azure Service Bus credentials in a secure connection profile.
  • Connect to any Azure Service Bus endpoint.
  • Integrate Azure Service Bus jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
  • Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Azure Service Bus, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.
  • Monitor the job status, results, and output of Azure Service Bus jobs.
  • Attach an SLA job to the Azure Service Bus jobs.

Setting up Control-M for Azure Service Bus

This procedure describes how to deploy the Azure Service Bus plug-in, create a connection profile, and define a Azure Service Bus 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.

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:
    1. For a fresh installation, use the provision image command:
      • Linux: ctm provision image Azure_Service_Bus_plugin.Linux
      • Windows: ctm provision image Azure_Service_Bus_plugin.Windows
    2. For an upgrade, use the following command:
      ctm provision agent::update
  3. Create an Azure Service Bus connection profile in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
    1. Web: Creating a Centralized Connection Profile with Azure Service Bus Connection Profile Parameters.
    2. Automation API: ConnectionProfile:Azure Service Bus
  4. Define an Azure Service Bus job in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
Warning

Note

To remove this plug-in from an Agent, see Removing a Plug-in. The plug-in ID is ASB012025.

 

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