Control-M for Azure Virtual Machine
Azure Virtual Machine (VM) enables you to create, manage, and delete virtual machines in the Azure cloud.
Control-M for Azure VM enables you to do the following:
- Connect to any Azure VM endpoint from a single computer with secure login, which eliminates the need to provide authentication.
- Integrate Azure VM jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
- Execute any of the following Azure VM job operations:
- Create or update a virtual machine.
- Delete an existing virtual machine.
- Empty a virtual machine.
- Reboot a virtual machine.
- Start an existing virtual machine.
- Stop a running virtual machine.
- Monitor the status, results, and output of Azure VM jobs in the Monitoring domain.
- Attach an SLA job to your Azure VM jobs.
- Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Azure VM including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.
- Run 50 Azure VM jobs simultaneously per Agent.
Setting up Control-M for Azure VM
This procedure describes how to install the Azure VM plug-in, create a connection profile, and define an Azure VM 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
- 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 ZVM_plugin.Linux
- Windows: ctm provision image ZVM_plugin.Windows
- For an upgrade, use the following command:
ctm provision agent::update
- For a fresh installation, use the provision image command:
- Create an Azure VM connection profile in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
- Helix Control-M: Creating a Centralized Connection Profile with Azure Virtual Machine Connection Profile Parameters
- Automation API: ConnectionProfile:Azure VM
- Define an Azure VM job in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
- Helix Control-M: Creating a Job with Azure VM Job parameters
- Automation API: Job:Azure VM
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