Control-M for Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-based data analytics platform that enables you to visualize, analyze, and share large workloads of data.

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

• Execute Amazon QuickSight jobs, which perform a full or partial data reloads.

• Manage Amazon QuickSight credentials in a secure connection profile.

• Connect to any Amazon QuickSight endpoint.

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

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

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

• Attach an SLA job to the Amazon QuickSight jobs.

• Run 50 Amazon QuickSight jobs simultaneously per Agent.

Setting up Control-M for Amazon QuickSightLink copied to clipboard

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

Before You Begin

• Verify that Automation API is installed, as described in Setting Up the API.

• Verify that Agent version 9.0.21.080 or later is installed.

1. On the Agent host, run one of the following commands to set the Java environment variable:

   • Linux:

     • Bourne shell/bash: export BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME=<java_11_directory>

     • csh/tcsh: setenv BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME <java_11_directory>

   • Windows: set BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME="<java_11_directory>"

2. Run one of the following API commands:

   • To install, type one of the following provision image commands:

     • Linux: ctm provision image AQS_plugin.Linux

     • Windows: ctm provision image AQS_plugin.Windows

   • To upgrade, type the following command:

     ctm provision agent::update

3. Create an Amazon QuickSight connection profile in Control-M SaaS or Automation API, as follows:

   • Control-M SaaS: Create a Centralized Connection Profile with Amazon QuickSight Connection Profile Parameters

   • Automation API: ConnectionProfile:AWS QuickSight

4. Define an Amazon QuickSight job in Control-M SaaS or Automation API, as follows:

   • Control-M SaaS: Create a Job with Amazon QuickSight Job parameters

   • Automation API: Job:AWS QuickSight

Change LogLink copied to clipboard

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

Plug-in Version	Details
1.0.02	The Verify operation completion sub-step is updated to use the GET method instead of the PUT method, in accordance with updates in the AWS QuickSight API.
1.0.01	Patch released to handle incorrect URL for a centralized connection profile Added Check Authentication stage changed app icon
1.0.00	Initial version