The following procedure describes how to install Control-M on EC2 Windows platform, which enables you to use AWS to create a Windows virtual server and to install Control-M.
Before you begin
To install Control-M, do the following to assign AMI a hostname in the format of ‘ip-<hex Internal IP>’, so the AMIs can communicate with each other by private hostname:
Launch the EC2 Service Properties
Select the General tab
Check the Set Computer Name checkbox
To install Control-M on EC2 Windows platform:
Create a Control-M Supported Windows Operating system (for example Windows 2012 Server instance). For the procedure, please refer to Step 1 in Installing Control-M on EC2 Linux platform, and select the desired Windows OS.
Download Remote Desktop File for Windows instance.
Get a password by doing the following:
Click Get Password
Browse the PEM file and decrypt password
Log in to the Windows Image using Remote Desktop File as follows:
Launch the downloaded RDP file
Type in the username/password
sftp the Control-M installation image to the Cloud Services server as follows:
Use ftp to transfer the Control-M installation image to a server
Use sftp to transfer the Control-M image to the Cloud Services server
NOTE: Post Cloud Services only supports sftp and not ftp, however the BMC EPD does not support sftp.
Run the Control-M 9.0.19 Setup.
Log in to the Control-M Configuration Manager, then create a GUI server, GCS, Web Server and a Control-M/Server.
