Control-M for Airbyte


Airbyte is an open-source extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that enables you to build data pipelines and load data to a data warehouse, data lake, database, or analytics tool of your choice.

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

  • Connect to any Airbyte endpoint from a single computer with secure login, which eliminates the need to provide authentication.
  • Integrate Airbyte jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.
  • Execute Airbyte jobs that sync or reset data pipelines.
  • Monitor the status, results, and output of Airbyte jobs in the Monitoring domain.
  • Attach an SLA job to your Airbyte jobs.
  • Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Airbyte, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.
  • Run 50 Airbyte jobs simultaneously per Agent.

Setting Up Control-M for Airbyte

This procedure describes how to install the Airbyte plug-in, create a connection profile, and define an Airbyte 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 Airbyte_plugin.Linux
      • Windows: ctm provision image Airbyte_plugin.Windows
    • To upgrade, run the following command:
      ctm provision agent::update
  3. Create a Airbyte connection profile in Helix Control-M or Automation API, as follows:
  4. Define a Airbyte 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 ABY122023.

 

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