Now we should feel much more confident with our Control-M skills, not only on the implementation and scheduling side, but also on the administration side.
In this chapter, we started with installing the additional Control-M components BIM and Forecast, followed by discussing tasks involved in expanding and updating the Control-M environment. We talked about different methods of performing regular installation tasks, such as applying fix packs and installing Control-M/EM GUI clients, as well as demonstrated how to define Agentless remote hosts in both Linux and Windows environments by using the two connection methods. Towards the end, we also got to perform some everyday administration tasks, including stop/start Control-M components, defining Control-M/EM user authorizations and customizing the GUI.
Those new components we installed during the beginning of this chapter were not only for good looks but also for additional functionality. In the coming chapters, we will be working on...