Identity Solutions Australia Pty Ltd

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course is designed to teach concepts and familiarise students with the functionality of the product for IT professionals responsible for using the CONTROL-M product. The course is suitable for new users and those with a basic level of knowledge of the product. 

COURSE ABSTRACT

This 4-day course provides an overview of the three-tiered architecture of CONTROL-M and of the components of CONTROL-M Enterprise Manager. Students will acquire knowledge on how to use CONTROL-M to create, schedule, manage and monitor batch processes.   It will also provide an overview of the three tiered architecture of CONTROL-M and the components of CONTROL-M Enterprise Manager (EM).

During the course, students will practice skills necessary to complete tasks for job creation and processing definitions using CONTROL-M Desktop and will learn how to manage active jobs and alerts using Enterprise Manager.   The course will also cover the use of the reporting facility to report on Control-M job definitions and batch processing.

The course will also cover new features of CONTROL-M 6.4

Course Objectives

• Describe Control-M Enterprise Manager (EM) components and architecture
• Use Enterprise Manager to monitor and control job processes
• Create and maintain jobs and calendars using Control M desktop
• Create dependencies between processes by defining pre-requisite conditions and manage those dependencies through Control-M EM
• Use quantitative and control resources to manage Control-M jobs
• Use global conditions to create cross-platform dependencies
• Use the Control-M Reporting facility
• Edit jobs to raise alerts in required circumstances, directing those alerts to consoles, email or other devices.
• Monitor and manage alerts and use Control-M EM to resolve problems that occurred in a job
• Implement post-processing steps into Control-M jobs in order to perform actions based on the results of a job

AGENDA

Day 1

• Unit 1 – Introduction and Architecture of Control-M
• Unit 2 – The Control-M Desktop and EM GUIs
• Unit 3 – Job Creation, modification and the use of Templates
  

Day 2

• Unit 4 – Reviewing the Batch using EM
• Unit 5 – Job Scheduling and Calendars
• Unit 6 – Pre-requisite Conditions
  

Day 3

• Unit 7 – Quantitative and Control Resources
• Unit 8 – Auto-edit Variables
• Unit 9 – Job post-processing
• Unit 10 – Monitoring and Handling Alerts
• Unit 11 – Viewpoints
  

Day 4

• Unit 12 - Archived Viewpoints
• Unit 13 – Global Conditions
• Unit 14 – Scheduling Groups
• Unit 15 – Reporting Facility
• Unit 16 – Best Practice: Housekeeping, naming standards and documentation
  

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE

None - Some basic understanding of the UNIX operating system will be helpful, but is not essential.

PREREQUISITE COURSES

 None