ctl

The ctl command line utility enables you to send simple requests to Control‑M/EM server components. The ctl utility can:

• Check if Control‑M/EM server components are operational.
• Check if Batch Impact Manager and Control-M/Forecast (Forecast) server components are operational (if they are installed at your site).
• Send commands to Control‑M/EM components during runtime, for example, setting Gateway debug level.

The ctl utility is automatically installed with a full Control-M/EM installation.

To run the utility, you can select one of the following:

• Sending requests to Control-M/EM Server using the ctl utility
• Sending requests from the Control Shell using the ctl utility

The ctl utility can send request to the following:

• Gateway, as described in Sending requests to the Gateway using the ctl utility.
• Global Conditions Server, as described in Sending requests to the Global Conditions server using the ctl utility.
• GUI Server, as described in Sending requests to the GUI server using the ctl utility.
• Forecast Server, as described in Sending requests to the Forecast server using the ctl utility.
• Configuration Management server, as described in Sending requests to the Configuration Management server using the ctl utility.
• Configuration Agent, as described in Sending requests to the Configuration Agent using the ctl utility.
• High Availability Server, as described in Sending requests to the High Availability Server using the ctl utility.
• BIM Server, as described in Sending requests to the BMC Batch Impact Manager server using the ctl utility.
• Self Service server, as described in Sending requests to the Control-M Self Service server using the ctl utility.