Control-M for Ansible AWX

Ansible AWX jobs enable you to manage Ansible playbooks, inventories, and job scheduling.

Control-M for Ansible AWX enables you to do the following:

• Execute any of the following Ansible AWX job actions:

  • Launch job templates

  • Launch workflow templates

  • Synchronize inventory sources

  • Synchronize projects

• Manage Ansible AWX credentials in a secure connection profile.

• Connect to any Ansible AWX endpoint.

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

• Integrate Ansible AWX jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.

• Monitor the status, results, and output of Ansible AWX jobs.

• Attach an SLA job to the Ansible AWX jobs.

Setting up Control-M for Ansible AWXLink copied to clipboard

This procedure describes how to deploy the Ansible AWX plug-in, create a connection profile, and define an Ansible AWX 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 Ansible_AWX_plugin.Linux

     • Windows: ctm provision image Ansible_AWX_plugin.Windows

   • To upgrade, type the following command:

     ctm provision agent::update

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

   • Control-M SaaS: Create a Centralized Connection Profile with Ansible AWX Connection Profile Parameters

   • Automation API: ConnectionProfile:Ansible AWX

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

   • Control-M SaaS: Create a Job with Ansible AWX Job parameters

   • Automation API: Job:Ansible AWX

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	Improved handling of Template workflow and run by ID
1.0.01	Improve handling of templates launched with non-unique names in the system
1.0.00	Initial version