Agent Installation

The Agent installation installs Control-M/Agent on a host. Additional Agents enable you to run jobs on multiple hosts, which enhances performance and creates greater load balancing control.

If you are installing an Agent on UNIX, complete the pre-installation procedures, as described in Agent Pre-installation Procedures for UNIX and the post-installation procedures, as described in Agent Post-installation Procedures.

Control-M/Agent requires an external Java library. To ensure that Java libraries remain updated, Java library deliveries are decoupled from Control-M/Agent and not part of the installation. For more information, see Control-M External Java Installation.

Before you install Control-M/Agent, verify that your operating system and processor are supported and that your minimum requirements for memory and disk space are met. Verify that your system meets the following requirements:

You can install multiple Agents (including a self-hosted Agent and SaaS Agent together) on the same host, but the following requirements must be met:

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

  • Each Agent must have a unique name.

  • Each self-hosted Agent or SaaS Agent must be version 9.0.21.100 or higher.

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

To install an Agent on a self-hosted Control-M/Server, see one of the following procedures:

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

Agent System Requirements for WindowsLink copied to clipboard

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

See also Agent Compatibility.

Resource

Specification

Compatible Processors

x86_64

CPU and Memory

100 concurrent jobs or less:

  • CPU: 2

  • Memory: 4 GB

  • CPU SPEC 2017 Int rate: 10

100–200 concurrent jobs:

  • CPU: 4

  • Memory: 6 GB

  • CPU SPEC 2017 Int rate: 20

Disk Space

1000 MB

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

Agent System Requirements for UNIXLink copied to clipboard

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

See also Agent Compatibility.

Resource

Requirement

Memory

200 concurrent jobs or less:

  • CPU: 2

  • Memory: 4 GB

  • CPU SPEC 2017 Int rate: 10

Disk Space

1000 MB

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

Control-M/Agent and Plug-ins Java SupportLink copied to clipboard

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.

  • Control-M Application pack, Control-M for Airflow, Control-M for SAP version 9.0.21.000 cannot be installed on Control-M/Agent 9.0.21.100 or higher with Java 17 or higher.

  • You can use Java 21.0.0 with Control-M Application pack, Control-M for Airflow, Control-M for SAP version 9.0.21.200 only if Control-M/Agent is 9.0.21.300 or higher.

  • You can use Java 17.0.1 or 21.0.0 with Control-M for OEBS and Control-M for PeopleSoft version 9.0.21.000 only if Control-M/Agent is 9.0.21.300 or higher.

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

 

11.0.12 or higher

  • 11.0.12 or higher

  • 17.0.1 or higher

  • 11.0.16 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