Control-M for Datadog

Datadog enables you to gain end-to-end visibility into the health and performance of applications, infrastructure, and network systems across cloud and hybrid environments.

Control-M for Datadog enables you to do the following:

• Send events in Datadog to enable proactive observability and alerts based on Control-M jobs.

• Create incidents in Datadog to automatically trigger incident response workflows that accelerate mean time to resolution (MTTR).

• Run Datadog workflows that embed monitoring and automation into end-to-end business processes.

• Start Datadog synthetic tests that validate system availability and performance within your batch and real-time job workflows.

• Manage Datadog credentials in a secure connection profile.

• Connect to any Datadog endpoint.

• Introduce all Control-M capabilities to Control-M for Datadog, including advanced scheduling criteria, complex dependencies, resource pools, lock resources, and variables.

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

• Monitor the status, results, and output of Datadog jobs.

• Attach an SLA job to the Datadog jobs.

Setting up Control-M for Datadog

This procedure describes how to deploy the Datadog plug-in, create a connection profile, and define a Datadog 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 higher 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_directory>

     • csh/tcsh: setenv BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME <java_directory>

   • Windows: set BMC_INST_JAVA_HOME="<java_directory>"

2. Do one of the following:

   • Install: Run one of the following provision image commands:

     • Linux: ctm provision image Datadog_plugin.Linux

     • Windows: ctm provision image Datadog_plugin.Windows

   • Upgrade: Run the following command:

     ctm provision agent::update

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

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

   • Automation API: ConnectionProfile:Datadog

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

   • Control-M SaaS: Create a Job with Datadog Job parameters

   • Automation API: Job:Datadog

Change Log

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

Plug-in Version	Details
1.0.00	Initial version