Control-M for Automation Anywhere

Automation Anywhere is a robotic process automation (RPA) software, which enables you to create bots that observe human actions in the digital workplace, identify repetitive rules-based tasks, and automate these tasks.

Control-M for Automation Anywhere enables you to do the following:

  • Execute Automation Anywhere bots or processes.

  • Manage Automation Anywhere credentials in a secure connection profile.

  • Connect to any Automation Anywhere endpoint from a single host with secure login, which eliminates the need to provide authentication.

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

  • Integrate Automation Anywhere jobs with other Control-M jobs into a single scheduling environment.

  • Monitor the status, results, and output of Automation Anywhere jobs.

  • Attach an SLA job to the Automation Anywhere jobs.

  • Run 50 Automation Anywhere jobs simultaneously per Agent.

Setting up Control-M for Automation AnywhereLink copied to clipboard

This procedure describes how to deploy the Automation Anywhere plug-in, create a connection profile, and define an Automation Anywhere 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.

  • If you plan to run jobs simultaneously rather than sequentially, ensure that you have enabled multi-login through Automation Anywhere. For more information, see Multi-login user in the Automation Anywhere documentation.

  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 AAR_plugin.Linux

      • Windows: ctm provision image AAR_plugin.Windows

    • To upgrade, type the following command:

      ctm provision agent::update

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

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

To remove this plug-in from an Agent, see Removing a Plug-in. The plug-in ID is AAR072022.

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

1.0.03

Added the option to utilize public workspace

1.0.02

Changed the execution of the bot request to a new API call after the API update in Control-M Automation API

1.0.01

Changed the API version in Authentication

1.0.00

Initial version