Control-M Web Supported Capabilities in 9.0.21.300

The following capabilities are now available in Control-M Web version 9.0.21.300 (new capabilities are marked in BLUE):

Navigation and User Experience Enhancements

  • Application menu improves the navigation between domains.
  • Search BMC Support Central directly from Control-M Web.
  • Date format definition aligns with the browser settings of the user.

Planning Domain

  • New actions toolbar and planning pallet.
  • Set your preferred language to simplified or traditional Chinese.
  • Workspaces: An environment where you can create multiple workflows using folders, jobs, and dependencies.
    • Create, save, and load Workspaces.
    • Export Workspaces compatible with XML versions 9.0.00, 9.0.18, 9.0.19, 9.0.20, and 9.0.21.
    • Create workflows for all Control-M supported job types.
    • Copy, cut, and delete jobs and folders in the Workspace, including Events.
    • Edit job properties, including scheduling, prerequisites, and actions.
    • View neighborhood jobs to locate predecessor and successor jobs.
    • Define the preferred Event format to connect jobs in the Workspace.
    • Develop job templates to create new jobs in the Workspace.
    • View folder and job predecessors and successors within context.
    • You can determine how Events appear in Tile View in the Planning Workspace and Monitoring Viewpoint with the Display Events section in Tile Settings.
      • You can control whether to display the Event to be deleted or Event raised by If-Action options in Tile View.
      • By default, in versions 9.0.21.100 and higher, only the Event to be deleted option is selected.
    • Validate, check-in, and run Workspaces or selected folders and jobs.
    •  Workload Change Manager (WCM)
      • Add folder/job notes.
      • Submit Workspace for a scheduler review.
      • Submitted requests approval.
    • Reference SMART folders.
    • Import/Export Workspaces to JSON.
  • Find & Update
    • Advanced job search based on multiple criteria.
    • Mass-update of selected job properties for multiple jobs.
  • Compare and manage job versions.
  • Use variable simulation support to resolve variables that are defined in the job, sub-folder or SMART folder, and Lock Resources and Resource Pools that are defined in any of its parent folders as part of the planning process.
  • Right-click folders and jobs to define links between satellite Events using set target or set source options.
  • View the workspace schedule in a timeline.
  • Expand/Collapse entities in the Map view.
  • Navigation pane right-click context menu.

Monitoring Domain

  • New actions toolbar.
  • Set your preferred language to simplified or traditional Chinese.
  • Viewpoints: A filtered view of your active workflows where you can monitor and troubleshoot.
    • Create a Viewpoint based on multiple filters and hierarchies.
    • Edit/ save Viewpoints.
    • Support of all job operations for active jobs to include; hold, release, return, restart, confirm, set to OK, skip, bypass, delete, kill, run now (force), and edit.
    • View neighborhood jobs to locate job predecessors and successors.
    • You can determine how Events appear in Tile View in the Planning Workspace and Monitoring Viewpoint with the Display Events section in Tile Settings.
      • You can control whether to display the Event to be deleted or Event raised by If-Action options in Tile View.
      • By default, in versions 9.0.21.100 and higher, only the Event to be deleted option is selected.
    • Edit job properties.
    • View job details, such as job summary, job settings, full job log, job output, statistics, scripts, and documentation.
    • Job waiting information: View detailed information to investigate jobs in a waiting state, track predecessors, and manually apply unmet Events (conditions) to run the jobs.
    • Find jobs with a dedicated search engine.
    • Viewpoint types
      • Public Viewpoints: Viewpoints that are created in Control-M Desktop and are accessible to Control-M Desktop users are now accessible to all Control-M Web users.  You can only create and edit a public viewpoint in Control-M Desktop.
      • Private Viewpoints: Viewpoints that are created in Control-M Web and are only available to the user that created it.
    • Control which hierarchical entities appear in a Viewpoint, such as Server, Folder, Application, Sub-application without changing the Viewpoint definition.
  • Archive Search
    • Search archived jobs using advanced search criteria.
  • Run selected jobs and folders without switching to the Planning Domain.
  • Services
    • View defined services in a dedicated dashboard.
    • Complete service details, including errors, logs, parameters, and related tickets.
    • Zoom into the service flow-map to investigate errors and troubleshoot.
  • Alerts Management
    • View and manage alerts in a dedicated alerts screen.
    • Configure alerts filters.
    • Mark alerts as new, reviewed, paused, and closed.
    • Edit alert urgency and add comments.
    • View the related job directly from the alerts screen to troubleshoot.
    • Visual indicators represent the application status in Monitoring
  • Airflow:  An additional analysis level for DAG jobs where each DAG is represented in Control-M ad-hoc.
  • Expand/Collapse entities in the Map view.
  • Navigation pane right-click context menu.

Tools Domain

  • Calendars Tool: Create reusable job schedules based on calendar types.
    • Support of regular, periodic, and rule-based calendars.
    • Create, edit, and delete calendars.
    • Publish calendars for use by other users.
    • Calendar search.
  • Folders Tool: Manage all existing folders in the system.
    • View, search, and filter saved folders.
    • Troubleshoot unsynchronized folders.
    • Apply Site Standards to multiple folders.
    • Sync or unsync selected folders.
    • View the Folder schedule in a timeline.
  • Events (previously known as Conditions): Create and manage dependencies between jobs.
    • View, search, and filter Control-M Events.
    • Add/delete Events.
  • Lock Resources (previously known as Control Resources): Control the distribution of physical or logical devices between jobs.
    • View, search, and filter lock resources.
    • Add/delete lock resources.
    • Set lock resources as exclusive or shared.
    • View lock resource usage by jobs.
    • Open jobs using a resource directly from the Control-M resources tool.
  • Resource Pools (previously known as Quantitative Resources): Manage the logical resources required to run jobs.
    • View, search, and filter resource pools.
    • Add or delete resource pools.
    • Set or modify resource pool quantity.
    • View resource pool usage by jobs using a resource directly from the Control-M resources tool.
  • Configure Workload policies and definitions.
  • Shared Variables: Manage shared information between jobs.
    • View, search, and filter variables.
    • Support of global, pool, folder, and local variables.
  • Site Standards: Standardize and automate business governance processes.
    • View, search, and filter Site Standards.
    • Add, duplicate, and delete Site Standards.
    • Add, edit, duplicate, and delete rules to a Site Standard, including prerequisites, job attributes, and format.
    • Set business parameters.
    • Create internal rules (rule templates).
    • Create, modify, and delete Event (condition) formats.
    • Site Standards policies.
  • User Views: Customize Control-M Web feature availability per user.
    • Create, edit, duplicate, and delete user views.
    • View granularity by feature, job type/properties, toolbar/job actions, configuration, tools, and alerts.
  • Global events prefix – it is now possible to Set prefixes for events to define them as global events, which allow to condition flows between jobs running on different servers.

Configuration Domain

  • Agents and Plug-ins Dashboard: Monitor your agents and plug-ins from a central screen.
    • View faulty/unavailable agents for troubleshooting.
    • View faulty/unavailable plug-ins for troubleshooting.
    • View aggregated agents and plug-ins statuses.
  • Control-M/Server Management
    • Add a Control-M/Server
    • Manage a Control-M/Server
    • Unmanage a Control-M/Server
    • Pause a Control-M/Server
    • Disable a Control-M/Server
    • Recycle a Control-M/Server
    • Change the Desired State
    • Recycle a Service
    • Notification Destinations
    • Control-M/Server System Parameters
  • Agents Management
    • View, search, and filter agents by name or plug-in type
    • Add/delete agents
    • Test an Agent
    • Agent operations: ping, recycle, disable
    • Agent configuration
    • Agent Tags
    • Modify agent system-parameters
    • Host Group Management (Add/edit agent participation rule)
    • Agent restrictions
    • Network Load Balancer Management
    • Agentless Host (view, add, delete, default agentless host settings)
  • Agent Maintenance
    • Agent debug: Change debug level and activate communication trace for selected agents.
    • Agent diagnostics: Collect agent logs and statistics.
    • Agent communication analysis: Run connectivity test to troubleshoot unavailable agents.
  • ‘Run as’ user management
  • Plug-ins management
    • View, search, and filter plug-ins.
    • Add/delete plug-ins on agents.
    • Plug-in configuration.
    • Set configuration profile for plug-ins.
  • Centralized Connection Profiles
    • View, search, and filter Centralized Connection Profiles.
    • Add, duplicate, and delete Centralized Connection Profiles.
    • Centralized Connection Profile connectivity testing.
    • Centralized Connection Profile configuration.
  • User Management
    • New user and role authorization model.
    • OOTB external IdP support via SAML 2.0.
    • Host group with role-based administration support.
    • Add/remove users and roles.
  • API tokens for user authentication when running API commands. The API tokens can used for long periods of time, based on an expiration date that you define.
  • Notification Destinations
    • Configure Notification Destinations (previously Shout Destination Manager).
    • Activate a notification destination list with Control-M Automation API.
  • Set your preferred language to simplified or traditional Chinese.
  • Monitor communication properties and general, database, and time settings from the Home tab.

Reports

  • Save reports as PDF, XLSX, CSV (for supported reports).
  • Multiple criteria filters and column choosers.
  • Support the following reports:
    • Alerts
    • Active Jobs
    • Audit
    • Extreme Peak Usage
    • Active - Resource Pools
    • Active - Lock Resources
    • Active - Prerequisite Events
    • Managed Servers
    • Hostgroup Information
    • Trend Analysis
    • User Authorizations
    • Jobs Definitions
    • Jobs Definitions - Wait for Events
    • Jobs Definitions - Events
    • Jobs Definitions - Variables
    • Jobs Definitions - Before/After Notifications
    • Jobs Definitions - Lock Resources
    • Jobs Definitions - Resource Pool
    • Folders definitions
    • WCM Audit
    • Jobs executions
    • Workloads
    • SLA
    • MFT
    • MFT E (B2B)
  • Additional reports to retrieve Folders/Jobs with If actions:
    • Notify by Mail Actions: View all folders and jobs that are defined with a Notify by mail action.
    • Add/Delete Events Actions: View all folders and Jobs that are defined with an Add/Delete Events action.
    • Change Status or Run Settings Actions: View all folder and jobs that are defined with one of the following actions:
      • Set to OK
      • Set to not OK
      • Rerun Job
      • Stop Cyclic Run
    • Run Job Actions: View all folders and jobs that are defined with a Run job action.
    • Set Variable Actions: View all folders and jobs that are defined with a Set Variable action.
    • Handle Output Actions: View all jobs that are defined with a Handle Output action.

Workflow Insights

  • New User Actions dashboard.
  • Workflow health.
  • Historical peak usage.
  • Workflows and job distributions in the system.
  • Alert metrics for jobs, applications, and hosts. 
  • Job and Folder updates.
  • SLA management services health.
  • Job and workflow efficiency. 
  • Job execution metrics.

Managed File Transfer (MFT) and Managed File Transfer Enterprise

  • MFT Dashboard

 

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