Control-M Full Installation System Requirements

Before you install Control-M, verify that your operating system, processor, and database server are supported and have the correct amount of memory and disk space. For a full list of requirements, see the Control-M 9.0.21.300 Release Notes.

Depending on your operating system, verify that your system meets one of the following requirements:

The number of processes limit must be equal to or greater than the number of expected parallel running jobs.

Full Installation UNIX System Requirements

The following table lists the prerequisite requirements for a UNIX platform. These values represent the minimum requirements for an entry level deployment. For higher capacity workloads, add resources.

Resource

Specification

Requirement

Compatible Processors

AIX

IBM RISC System/6000 (RS/6000)

Linux

x86_64

Memory

N/A

 24 GB (minimum)

Disk Space

N/A

100 GB

If you are installing Control-M with a remote database server, 15 GB must be free on the database server.

BMC Software recommends that you reserve 1.5 times the amount of host memory in disk swap space. For example, a host with 24 GB of memory requires 36 GB of disk space.

CPU

4 vCPU

  • 100 SPEC rating (2006_int_rate)

  • 30 rPef (AIX only)

Full Installation Windows System Requirements

The following table lists the prerequisite requirements for a Windows platform. These values represent the minimum requirements for an entry level deployment. For higher capacity workloads, add resources.

Resource

Requirement

CPU

  • Intel Xeon 64-bit

  • AMD Opteron

Compatible Processors

x86_64

Display

16-bit (65,536) colors or higher

Memory

24 GB

Disk Space

100 GB

If you are installing Control-M with a remote database server, 15 GB must be free on the database server.

BMC Software recommends that you reserve 1.5 times the amount of host memory in disk swap space. For example, a host with 24 GB of memory requires 36 GB of disk space.

Related Software

  • Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2.

CPU

  • 4 vCPU

  • 100 SPEC rating (2006_int_rate)

    The <install folder> must have Read, List folder contents, Write, and Read & execute permissions assigned to the Users group.

Database Server Requirements

The following table lists the database server options for the Control-M full installation.

You might experience performance degradation when the following occurs:

  • Too heavy of a workload is placed on too few hard disks.

  • Redo Log files are saved on RAID-5 disks.

  • Rollback tablespace is saved on RAID-5 disks.

    For more information, see 000105549.

Database Server

Description

Version

PostgreSQL (BMC-Supplied)

Installs automatically in the background when you install Control-M.

During an upgrade, the PostgreSQL database server version is not updated.

15.3

PostgreSQL (Existing)

A customer-supplied existing PostgreSQL full database server must be present (non-BMC source).

The database server must have the following two extensions:

  • plpgsql

  • dblink

  • OS authenticated logins to the database are not supported.

  • An External PostgreSQL database is supported only if it is compatible with the Open Source PostgreSQL.

  • The database must be configured to use user-password authentication. Trust authentication is not supported.

  • The external PostgreSQL server must be configured to password based connectivity.

The $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf file can have a line such as:

host all all 0.0.0.0/0 password

  • 11.x

  • 12.x

  • 13.x

  • 14.x

  • 15.x

  • 16.x

Oracle

A customer-supplied existing Oracle full Enterprise or Standard Edition database server must be present.

An Oracle instant client is supplied in the background when you install Control-M.

Control-M/EM and Control-M/Server supports only a single address in the tnsnames.ora file in any Oracle configuration including RAC and Data Guard.

For more details, see Oracle Database Server Requirements.

19c

MSSQL

A customer-supplied existing MSSQL full database server must be present.

The following must be present on any computer that hosts Control-M/EM or Control-M/Server:

  • Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server.

  • Microsoft Command Line Utilities 15 for SQL Server.

    To verify the version, run sqlcmd -?.

  • (Control-M/Server only) Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client.

You must use an MSSQL server SA account to perform the installation. Installation with a Windows User is not supported.

  • Control-M installation with MSSQL must always be performed using an existing English language MSSQL database server.

  • If you want to have the database built with a different collate than the standard Latin-1 or CJK, you need to define the CTM_FORCE_COLLATE environment variable such as Chinese_Taiwan_Stroke_CI_AS or HEBREW_Bin.

  • If you installed Microsoft Management Studio or Database Server, you do not need to install Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server or Microsoft Command Line Utilities 15 for SQL Server, as they are included.

  • 2022

  • 2019

  • 2017

  • 2016

  • 2014 SP3 (Windows 2016 and lower)

The following table contains the parameter information required to install Control-M on supported existing database servers. Check with your system Administrator for the exact information required.

Database Server

Host Name

Port

Service Name

Database Server Administrator Password

Database Location

Log Location

PostgreSQL

Yes

Yes

 

Yes

(UNIX) Yes

  

Oracle

Yes

Yes

Yes

Optional

Yes

 

MSSQL

Yes

 

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

  • PostgreSQL: If you need to enable CJK, the default Control-M PostgreSQL client encoding is UTF8. Ensure the template_utf Database with UTF8 encoding is present in your existing PostgreSQL server. If you do not need to enable CJK, the default Control-M PostgreSQL client encoding is LATIN1. Ensure the template1 Database with LATIN1 encoding is present in your existing PostgreSQL server. For more information, see 000380214.

  • PostgreSQL and MSSQL: The username and password must begin with a letter (A–Z, a–z), followed by 5–29 alphanumeric characters and _ (underscores).

  • Oracle: The username and password must begin with a letter (A–Z, a–z), followed by 5–29 alphanumeric characters and _ (underscores).

Optimizing Database Performance

This procedure describes how to optimize the Control-M/EM and Control-M/Server databases. You might need to perform this procedure if your databases have a high transaction rate and high job count.

Begin

  1. Verify that the Oracle or PostgreSQL database is installed on a dedicated computer that does not have the UNIX SWAP file.

  2. Assign the Redo Log, WAL, and Transaction logs to a separate disk drive.

  3. Verify that the Redo Log, WAL, and Transactions log file is not using a RAID-5 disk. The following RAID disks are supported:

    • No RAID

    • RAID 0

    • RAID 0+1

    • RAID 10

  4. Assign the Rollback tablespace Log to a separate disk drive.

  5. Verify that the Rollback tablespace file is not using a RAID-5 disk. The following RAID disks are supported:

    • No RAID

    • RAID 0

    • RAID 0+1

    • RAID 10

  6. Assign the Control Files Log to a separate disk drive.

  7. Verify that the Control Files are not using a RAID-5 disk. The following RAID disks are supported:

    • No RAID

    • RAID 0

    • RAID 0+1

    • RAID 10