Connection Profiles

A connection profile contains plug-in authorization credentials, such as a username, password, host, and URL, and enables you to connect Control-M to the plug-in application server via the connection profile alone. You must create a connection profile before you can create a plug-in job, as described inCreating a Centralized Connection Profile.

You can manage the following connection profile types:

  • Local Connection Profile: Stored and managed on each Agent that is connected to a self-hosted Control-M/Server. You can only edit and delete local connection profiles in Helix Control-M.To create a connection profile, you must create a centralized connection profile.

  • Centralized Connection Profile: Stored in the Control-M/EM database and available to all Agents in your environment. These connection profiles facilitate authentication creation and management in the following ways:

    • If you install a new plug-in, you do not need to manually duplicate connection profiles on each Agent in your environment. Instead, create one centralized connection profile per plug-in, which all relevant Agents can access.

    • If you must update your plug-in username and password, you do not need to edit the local connection profile stored on each Agent. Instead, update your credentials in a centralized connection profile and the Control-M/Server updates the authentication credentials for all Agents.

    • If an Agent becomes unavailable, you do not need to recreate a connection profile on a new Agent. Instead, the Control-M/Server sends the connection profile details to the new Agent when the plug-in job executes.

Creating a Centralized Connection Profile

This procedure describes how to create a centralized connection profile, which is stored in the Control-M/EM database, and available to all Agents in your environment. Centralized connection profiles eliminate the need to duplicate connection profiles on each Agent.

Begin

  1. From the icon, select Configuration.

    The Configuration domain opens.

  2. From the drop-down list, select Centralized Connection Profiles.

    The Centralized Connection Profiles pane appears.

  3. From the Add Connection Profile drop-down list, select the required Plug-in.

    The Add Connection Profile pane appears.

    The drop-down list shows only plug-ins that you have installed.

  4. Do the following:

    1. In the Connection Profile Name field, create a name for the connection profile.

    2. In the Description field, describe the purpose of the connection profile.

    3. For each parameter field, type the required values. For more information, see Connection Profile Parameters.

  5. Review the connection profile details, click Test, select an Agent where the connection profile is tested, and then click Test.

    If the test completes successfully, the connection profile is validated and you can now define a plug-in job.

    If the test fails, review and address the error message, and test again.

  6. Click Add.

    The centralized connection profile is created successfully.

Connection Profile Parameters

The following table lists the available plug-in types and links to plug-in-specific topics that detail their connection profile parameters.

Plug-in Type

Plug-in Parameters

Application Workflows

Business Intelligence and Analytics

Backup and Recovery

CI/CD

Cloud Computing

Container Orchestration

Data Processing and Analytics
Data Integration

Database Management

Databases Connection Profile Parameters

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

File Transfer

MFT Connection Profile Parameters

Infrastructure as Code

Machine Learning

Mainframe Modernization

Messaging and Communication

Messaging and Queuing
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Web Services, Java, and Messaging