Introduction to Control-M installation

Control-M installation includes all Control-M components and enables you to install a new installation on a clean computer or upgrade an existing installation. You can install or upgrade the latest version of Control-M components whether it's an annual or fix pack version from the same installation files. You do not need to install a base version and then apply fix packs. You can use the same installation files to install a new installation or upgrade an existing installation.

EXAMPLE: You can use the version 9.0.19 installation files to install Control-M on a clean account or upgrade an existing Control-M version to 9.0.19.

To upgrade an existing version of Control-M/EM server and clients, Control-M/Server, and Control-M/Agents, see Control-M upgrade.

To install one or many Control-M components on a clean account, see one of the following options:

• Control-M full installation: Enables you to install the Control-M package with all Control-M components including Application Plug-ins, and add-ons, (see Control-M installation terminology) on UNIX and Windows via an interactive or automatic installation. You can install with the default settings, or choose the custom installation to select the database server, database names, usernames, hostnames, and port settings.
• Control-M/Enterprise Manager installation: Enables you to install multiple instances of Control-M/Enterprise Manager (Control-M/EM).
• Control-M/Server installation: Enables you to install multiple instances of Control-M/Server.
• Control-M/Agent installation: Enables you to install additional Control-M/Agents on different computers throughout your organization, which enables you to run jobs on multiple computers. This enhances performance and creates greater load balancing control.
• Control-M client installation: Enables you to install additional Control-M clients on different computers throughout your organization, which enable multiple users in your organization to access Control-M.
• Control-M additional installations: Enables you to install all Control-M components in a cloud environment. You can also install a secondary instance of Control-M full installation, Control-M/EM, and Control-M/Server for High Availability (see High availability installation).

If you are installing Control-M in a cluster environment, see Control-M cluster configuration.

NOTE: Ensure that all of your existing Control-M Reporting Facility reports and data are migrated and converted into Control-M Reports, as described in Control-M Reporting Facility migration.

NOTE: Control-M automatically collects information on your product usage patterns. This information helps BMC to identify trends, enhance Control-M capabilities, and improve the quality. BMC does not collect any of your personal or organizational identifiable data. Your participation in the usage collection is optional. You can opt-out at any time by changing the values of the UsageCollectionDisabled system parameter to 1, as described in CMS parameters.