Control-M Web Supported Capabilities

Control-M Web Capabilities

The following capabilities are available in Control-M Web version 9.0.21 (New capabilities are marked in BLUE):

  • Planning Domain
    • 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
      • Edit job properties, including scheduling, prerequisites, and actions
      • View neighborhood jobs to locate predecessors and successors jobs
      • Validate, check-in, and run workspaces or selected folders and jobs
      • WCM:
        • Add folder/job notes
        •  Submit workspace for a scheduler review
      • 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
  • Monitoring Domain
    • 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
      • 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
    • 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
    • Airflow:  An additional analysis level for DAG jobs where each DAG is represented in Control-M ad-hoc.
  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 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
    • Agents management
      • View, search, and filter agents by name or plug-in type
      • Add/delete agents
      • Agent operations: ping, recycle, disable
      • Agent configuration
      • Agent Tags
      • Modify agent system-parameters
    • 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.
  • 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
    • 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

 

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