Control-M for Amazon ECS

AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a container management service that enables you to execute, stop, manage, and monitor containerized applications in a cluster.

Control-M for Amazon ECS enables you to do the following:

  • Execute Amazon ECS jobs with a Fargate, EC2, or external infrastructure.

  • Manage Amazon ECS credentials in a secure connection profile.

  • Connect to any Amazon ECS endpoint.

  • Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Amazon ECS, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, Resource Pools, Lock Resources, and variables.

  • Integrate Amazon ECS jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.

  • Monitor the status, results, and output of Amazon ECS jobs.

  • Attach an SLA job to the Amazon ECS jobs.

  • Run 50 Amazon ECS jobs simultaneously per Agent.

Control-M for Amazon ECS Compatibility

The following table lists the prerequisites that are required to use the Amazon ECS plug-in, each with its minimum required version.

Component

Version

Control-M/EM

9.0.21.100

Control-M/Agent

9.0.21.100

Control-M Application Integrator

9.0.21.100

Control-M Automation API

9.0.20.250

Control-M for Amazon ECS is supported on Control-M Web and Control-M Automation API, but not on the Control-M client.

To download the required installation files for each prerequisite, see Obtaining Control-M Installation Files.

Setting up Control-M for Amazon ECS

This procedure describes how to deploy the Amazon ECS plug-in, create a connection profile, and define an Amazon ECS job in Control-M Web and Automation API.

Integration plug-ins released by BMC require an Application Integrator installation. However, these plug-ins are not editable and you cannot import them into Application Integrator. To deploy these integrations to your Control-M environment, import them directly into Control-M with Control-M Automation API.

Before You Begin

Verify that Automation API is installed, as described in Automation API Installation.

Begin

  1. Create a temporary directory to save the downloaded files.

  2. Download the Amazon ECS plug-in from the Control-M for AWS ECS download page in the EPD site.

  3. Install the Amazon ECS plug-in via one of the following methods:

    • (9.0.21 or higher) Use the Automation API Provision service, as follows:

      1. Log in to the Control-M/EM Server machine as an Administrator and store the downloaded zip file in the one of the following locations:

        • Linux: $HOME/ctm_em/AUTO_DEPLOY

        • Windows: <EM_HOME>\AUTO_DEPLOY

      2. Log in to the Control-M/Agent machine and run the provision image command, as follows:

        • Linux: ctm provision image AWS_ECS_plugin.Linux

        • Windows: ctm provision image AWS_ECS_plugin.Windows

    • (9.0.20.200 or lower) Run the Automation API Deploy service, as described in deploy jobtype.

  4. Create an Amazon ECS connection profile in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:

  5. Define an Amazon ECS job in Control-M Web or Automation API, as follows:

To remove this plug-in from an Agent, see Removing a Plug-in. The plug-in ID is ACS042023.

Change Log

The following table provides details about changes that were introduced in new versions of this plug-in:

Plug-in Version

Details

1.0.06

Minor parameter changes.

1.0.05

  • Overrides are now optional.

  • Get logs is now optional.

  • Status Polling default value changed to 60.

1.0.04

  • AWS patch applied, to resolve issue of bad URLs in the connection profile.

  • Resolved issue of missing internal quotations in the API calls.

  • Added ability to run multiple ECS jobs and get correct logs from CloudWatch.

1.0.03

Modified variable names and rectified variables

1.0.02

Modified variable names and rectified variables

1.0.01

Modified variable names and rectified variables

1.0.00

Initial version