Health Check utility

Control-M Health Check utility scans and collects system information about the Control-M environment, which is used by BMC Support to help troubleshoot and correct problems. The information is maintained in a compressed hierarchical format that enables a detailed analysis of the collected data.

The following Health Check utilities are available with the following data collectors:

• Control-M/EM: em_data_collector
• Control-M client: emclient_data_collector
• Control-M/Server: ctms_data_collector
• Control-M/Agent and Control-M Application plug ins: ctma_data_collector
• Control-M/Archive: arc_data_collector

The Health Check utility uses the following parameter types, which enables you to filter the relevant data for BMC Support:

• Components: Enables you to collect data from all products by running the Health Check utility with default settings.
• Category: Enables you to collect data from Information type groupings. For example, operating system, database, or scheduling. For more information, see Standard Category parameters in Health Check utility parameters.
• Profile: (Control-M/Agent only) Enables you to collect data from a predefined combination of Components and Categories. For more information, see Profile parameters in Health Check utility parameters.

Data collector category parameters, include, exclude, and threads are only valid for Control-M/EM and Control-M/Servers, see Health Check utility parameters.

You can run the Health Check Utility from one of the following options:

• Command line, as described in Running Health Check utility from the command line.
• Batch file, as described in Running Health Check utility from a batch file.
• Control-M Configuration Manager, as described in Generating diagnostic data in Administration.