Agent Installation

The Agent installation installs the Control-M/Agent on a UNIX or Windows host. Multiple Agents enable you to enhance performance through load balancing. For more information, see Host Groups.

Before you install Control-M/Agent, you must verify that you meet the minimum system requirements, as described in the following tables:

To install multiple Agents (including a self-hosted and SaaS Agent) on the same host, you must meet the following requirements:

  • (UNIX only) Each Agent must be installed on a separate account.

  • Each Agent must have a unique name.

  • Each Agent must be version 9.0.21.100 or higher.

To ensure that Java libraries remain up to date, you must install Java externally, as described in Control-M External Java Installation.

To install a self-hosted Agent, you must complete the following procedures, based on the operating system:

To install a SaaS Agent on Windows or UNIX, see Installing a SaaS Agent.

  • If you connect to the Internet via a proxy server, you must verify that the proxy server settings are properly defined, as described in Proxy Server Configuration.

Agent System Requirements for Windows

The following table lists the minimum Windows system requirements for an entry level Agent deployment. For higher capacity workloads, you must increase these resources.

For more information, see Agent Compatibility.

Resource

Requirements

Compatible Processors

x86_64

CPU and Memory

The following CPU and memory requirements enable you to concurrently execute up to 100 jobs:

  • CPU: 2

  • Memory: 4 GB

  • SPEC CPU2017 Integer Rate: 10

The following CPU and memory requirements enable you to concurrently execute 100–200 jobs:

  • CPU: 4

  • Memory: 6 GB

  • SPEC CPU2017 Integer Rate: 20

Disk Space

1,000 MB

BMC Software recommends that you reserve three times the amount of RAM in the system for swap space.

Agent System Requirements for UNIX

The following table lists the minimum UNIX system requirements for an entry level Agent deployment. For higher capacity workloads, you must increase these resources.

For more information, see Agent Compatibility.

Resource

Requirement

Memory

The following CPU and memory requirements enable you to concurrently execute up to 200 jobs:

  • CPU: 2
  • Memory: 4 GB

  • SPEC CPU2017 Integer Rate: 10

Disk Space

1,000 MB

BMC Software recommends that you reserve three times the amount of RAM in the system for swap space.

Control-M/Agent and Plug-in Java Support

From version 9.0.21.000, Java library deliveries are decoupled from Control-M and not part of the installation. You must ensure that Java is available on the Control-M component host machines.

You cannot install the following plug-ins on Control-M/Agent 9.0.21.100 or higher with Java 17 or higher:

  • Control-M Application pack

  • Control-M for Airflow

  • Control-M for SAP 9.0.21.000

You can install the following plug-ins on Control-M/Agent is 9.0.21.300 or higher with Java 21.0.0:

  • Control-M Application pack

  • Control-M for Airflow

  • Control-M for SAP 9.0.21.200

You can install the following plug-ins on Control-M/Agent 9.0.21.300 or higher with 17.0.1 or 21.0.0:

  • Control-M for OEBS

  • Control-M for PeopleSoft 9.0.21.000

The following table lists the supported versions of Java for Control-M/Agent and Control-M plug-ins.

Component

Previous Version

9.0.20.200

9.0.21.000

9.0.21.100

9.0.21.200

9.0.21.300

Control-M/Agent

11.0.5

11.0.5

11.0.12 or higher

  • 11.0.12 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

  • 11.0.16 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

  • 11.0.16 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

  • 21.0.0 or higher

Airflow

 

 

11.0.12 or higher

 

  • 11.0.16 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

 

SAP

(9.0.01)

1.8

 

11.0.12 or higher

 

  • 11.0.16 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

 

Application Pack

11

11

11.0.12 or higher

  • 11.0.12 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

 

 

Application Integrator

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

See Control-M/Agent

See Control-M/Agent

See Control-M/Agent

See Control-M/Agent

Databases

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

  • 11.0.16 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

  • 11.0.16 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

  • 21.0.0 or higher

Informatica

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

 

  • 11.0.16 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

  • 21.0.0 or higher

Backup

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

 

  • 11.0.16 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

  • 21.0.0 or higher

Hadoop

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

See Application Pack

 

  • 11.0.16 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

  • 21.0.0 or higher

PeopleSoft

(9.0.01)

1.8

 

11

 

 

 

OEBS

(9.0.01)

1.8

 

11

 

 

 

WJM

(9.0.00)

1.8

 

 

 

 

 

DataStage

(8.0.00)

1.6

 

 

 

 

 

Cognos

(7.0.00)

1.6