There's no doubt about the rich GUI features provided by Control-M/EM. However, at the same time we may wonder, when Control-M/EM is down or the communication between Control-M/EM and Control-M/Servers is interrupted, how can we monitor and manage active jobs? Fortunately, there are a number of handy command-line utilities provided by Control-M/Server that allow us to bypass Control-M/EM to monitor and perform actions that directly affect the active environment and job/table definitions stored in Control-M/Server database.
These utilities can be used in interactive mode from the command line as well as running in batch mode when scheduled as Control-M jobs. Apart from using the utilities as an alternative way to monitor and manage the active environment, a lot of users leverage the features of these utilities to make the job scheduling much more flexible and dynamic.