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.
Control-M for OCI VM Compatibility
The following table lists the prerequisites that are required to use the OCI VM plug-in, each with its minimum required version.
Component | Version |
|---|---|
Control-M/EM | 9.0.21.200 |
Control-M/Agent | 9.0.21.200 |
Control-M Application Integrator | 9.0.21.200 |
Control-M Automation API | 9.0.21.225 |
Control-M for OCI VM is supported on Control-M Web and Control-M Automation API, but not on the Control-M client.
To download the required installation files for each prerequisite, see Obtaining-Control-M-Installation-Files.
Setting up Control-M for OCI VM
This procedure describes how to deploy the OCI VM plug-in, create a connection profile, and define an OCI VM job in Control-M Web and Automation API.
Before You Begin
Verify that Automation API is installed, as described in Automation API Installation.
Begin
- Create a temporary directory to save the downloaded files.
- Download the OCI VM plug-in from the Control-M for OCI VM download page in the EPD site.
- Install the OCI VM plug-in using the Automation API Provision service:
- Log in to the Control-M/EM Server machine as an Administrator and store the downloaded zip file in the one of the following locations (within several minutes, the job type appears in Control-M Web):
- Linux: $HOME/ctm_em/AUTO_DEPLOY
- Windows: <EM_HOME>\AUTO_DEPLOY
- Log in to the Control-M/Agent machine and run the provision image command, as follows:
- Linux: ctm provision image OCI_VM_plugin.Linux
- Windows: ctm provision image OCI_VM_plugin.Windows
- Log in to the Control-M/EM Server machine as an Administrator and store the downloaded zip file in the one of the following locations (within several minutes, the job type appears in Control-M Web):
- Create an OCI VM connection profile in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:
- Web: Creating a Centralized Connection Profile with OCI VM Connection Profile Parameters
- Automation API: Connection Profile:OCI VM
- Define an OCI VM job in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:
- Web: Creating a Job with OCI VM Job
- Automation API: Job:OCI VM