Control-M for GCP Virtual Machine

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Virtual Machine (VM) enables you to create, manage, and delete virtual machines on the Google Compute Engine (GCE).

Control-M for GCP VM enables you to do the following:

• Connect to any GCP VM endpoint from a single computer with secure login, which eliminates the need to provide authentication.
• Integrate GCP VM jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
• Execute any of the following GCP VM job operations:
  • Create a virtual machine.
  • Create a virtual machine from a template.
  • Start an existing virtual machine.
  • Stop a running virtual machine.
  • Reboot a virtual machine.
  • Delete an existing virtual machine.
• Monitor the status, results, and output of GCP VM jobs in the Monitoring domain.
• Attach an SLA job to your GCP VM jobs.
• Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for GCP VM including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.
• Run 50 GCP VM jobs simultaneously per Agent.

Setting up Control-M for Google VM

This procedure describes how to install the Google VM plug-in, create a connection profile, and define a Google 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

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