It has been a long chapter! We started with introducing the concept of the three ages to archive workload automation, and then looked at the different requirements and challenges at each stage. We also talked about sizing and technical considerations that are necessary for building a solid batch infrastructure. Finally, we started to get into the technical details and prepared machines and the environment for the Control-M implementation.
By now, we have a very basic Control-M environment. As we can see, it is not extremely hard to set up an enterprise batch scheduling backbone, as long as we plan everything in advance and follow the guidelines during implementation.
In the coming chapters, we will define and run batch jobs based on the environment we have just built. So, make sure everything is running in your environment before proceeding to the next chapter!