Control-M with active/passive (high availability) clusters

When you implement Control-M/Agent on a UNIX cluster, a dedicated Control‑M Agent is installed within each resource group to which Control-M should submit jobs. When a single application is running on the cluster, a single Control‑M Agent should be installed. When multiple applications are running on the cluster, Control-M submits jobs to those applications using different Control‑M Agents.

The file system on which Control-M/Agent is installed should be located on the shared disk. This file system should always be mounted to the same node as the application to which Control-M submits jobs. This file system can be

• the same file system as the application file system
• a different file system, as long as both file systems are always active on the same node (if they are not members in the same application resource group)

Each Agent should be configured to use the application virtual host name for the communication with Control-M/Server. When submitting jobs to this Agent, the NODEID parameter value for the jobs should be the virtual host name.

Before starting the implementation of Control-M/Agent on a UNIX cluster, first identify the file system where the Agent should be installed, and determine the resource group where the agent should be installed.