Application Pack deployment

The Application Pack Deployment tool enables you to automatically install and upgrade Application Plug-ins on multiple Control-M/Agents from one single point of access.

The Application Pack Deployment allows you to upgrade to the new version of Application Pack with no down time on the Control-M/Agent. Application Pack jobs that are running during the upgrade continue to process to completion. Jobs that are submitted after the upgrade completes, are processed by the new version. The previous version installation files are deleted after a predefined set of time. The minimum requirement to run the deployment with no downtime is Application Pack 9.0.18.200.

This process eliminates the need to designate a maintenance period on every Control-M/Agent and eliminates the need to coordinate between application owners and Control-M Administrators. In addition, it reduces the total cost of ownership and makes administrative task transparent to business needs.

From the CCM, you can transfer the Application Pack software packages to multiple Control-M/Agents. After the transfer, you can then install or upgrade the Application Pack on the Control-M/Agents to version 9.0.18 and higher on UNIX and Windows.

The Application Pack includes the following Application Plug-ins:

• Control-M for Backup
• Control-M for Databases
• Control-M for Hadoop (Linux only)
• Control-M for AWS
• Control-M for Azure
• Control-M for Informatica

To deploy the Application Pack to and from Control-M/Agents, see Deploying Application Plug-ins. To roll back to its original version, see Rolling back Application Pack.

The following procedures describe how to cancel, delete, and export deployment activities:

• Cancelling a deploy activity
• Deleting a deploy activity
• Exporting deployment activities

For a description of configurable deployment parameters, see Deployment parameters, Control-M/Agent deployment parameters, and Control-M/EM general parameters.

NOTES:

• If the Control-M/Agent windows service is set to Log on as > This account, the upgrade must be performed with this user.
• To run a deploy activity in the CCM you must have full access level in the Configuration and Operation privileges, as described in Privileges.
• If you are using the DB2 connector for Control-M for Databases, verify that a license file is installed properly as described in http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21413734.
• Control-M for Hadoop must be installed on a Control-M/Agent that is on the Edge node of the Hadoop cluster.
• Control-M/EM server and Control-M/Server need to be on the same version.
• You cannot install a previous version of Application Pack on Control-M/Agent version 9.0.21 and higher.