Control-M for Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud computing platform that you can use for data storage, processing, and analysis.

Control-M for Snowflake enables you to do the following:

• Connect to any Snowflake platform from a single computer with secure login, which eliminates the need to provide authentication.
• Integrate Snowflake jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
• Monitor the Snowflake job status and view the results in the Monitoring domain.
• Attach an SLA job to your entire Snowflake service.
• Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Snowflake, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, quantitative and control resources, and variables.
• Run 50 Snowflake jobs simultaneously per Control-M/Agent.

Setting up the API Connection with Snowflake

To set up the API connection with Snowflake and enable the use of the Control-M for Snowflake plug-in, you must perform several setup tasks, as described in Setting Up a Snowflake API Connection.

Setting up Control-M for Snowflake

This procedure describes how to install the Snowflake plug-in or the Snowflake IdP plug-in, create a connection profile, and define a Snowflake 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 of Control-M for Snowflake, which uses token-based authentication, use the provision image command:
     • Linux: ctm provision image SNF_plugin.Linux
     • Windows: ctm provision image SNF_plugin.Windows
   • For a fresh installation of Control-M for Snowflake IdP, which authenticates using an Identity Provider (IdP), use the provision image command:
     • Linux: ctm provision image SFI_plugin.Linux
     • Windows: ctm provision image SFI_plugin.Windows
   • For an upgrade, use the following command:
     ctm provision agent::update
3. Create a Snowflake connection profile in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
   • Helix Control-M: Creating a Centralized Connection Profile with the relevant parameters:
     • Snowflake Connection Profile Parameters for token-based authentication
     • Snowflake IdP Connection Profile Parameters for authentication using an Identity Provider (IdP)
   • Automation API:  ConnectionProfile:Snowflake
4. Define a Snowflake job in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
   • Helix Control-M: Create a Job and then define specific Snowflake parameters in Snowflake Job parameters.
   • Automation API: Job:Snowflake