Service rules

A service rule is a service definition that enables you to manually or automatically generate services based on filtering and grouping criteria, rather than creating many individual services.

There are two types of service rules:

• Active rule: Inspects the jobs in Active Jobs automatically and generates service definitions that will appear in Control-M Self Service. This reduces the maintenance of creating multiple service definitions individually.

  For example, you can define an active rule that creates a service for all jobs that belong to APP_Sales and GRP_Eur. Every time a new job enters Active Jobs and matches the rule, a new service instance automatically appears in Control-M Self Service. This relieves you from creating a new service definition every time new application or groups that match the rule appear in Active Jobs, such as APP_Sales1, APP_Sales2, or GRP_Eur_North, GRP_Eur_South.

• Manual rule: Enables you to inspect job definitions manually before you generate the service definitions. This allows you to determine which service definitions to generate for display in Control-M Self Service.

The following procedures describes how to create, edit, copy, and delete service rules and generate service definitions from the Service Rule wizard:

• Creating a service rule
• Editing a service rule
• Copying a service rule
• Deleting a service rule
• Generating services from a rule