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Control-M for OCI VM

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Virtual Machine (OCI VM) plug-in enables you to create, manage, and delete virtual machines in the Oracle cloud. 

Control-M for OCI VM enables you to do the following on OCI virtual machines:

  • Execute OCI VM operations, such as, create, manage, and delete virtual machines in the Oracle cloud.
  • Manage OCI VM credentials securely in a connection profile.
  • Connect to any OCI VM endpoint.
  • Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for OCI VM, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.
  • Integrate OCI VM jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
  • Monitor the job status, results, and output of OCI VM jobs.
  • Attach an SLA job to the OCI VM jobs.

Setting up Control-M for OCI VM

This procedure describes how to install the OCI VM plug-in, create a connection profile, and define an OCI 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, run the following provision image command:
      • Linux: ctm provision image OCI_VM_plugin.Linux
      • Windows: ctm provision image OCI_VM_plugin.Windows
    • To upgrade, run the following command:
      ctm provision agent::update
  3. Create an OCI VM connection profile in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
  4. Define an OCI VM 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 OVM012024.

 

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