BMC control-M 7 : a journey from traditional batch scheduling to workload automation / Qiang Ding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ding, Qiang.

Series:

Professional Expertise Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic data processing--Batch processing.

Electronic data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (534 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

Ding Qiang: Qiang Ding (Melbourne, Australia) has been working within the Control-M space for more than a quarter of his life. During his early days at BMC Software, Qiang resolved countless number of critical technical issues for Control-M customers around the world from Fortune 500 companies to government organizations. In recent years, Qiang has travelled hundreds thousands of miles around Australia and the North AP area to help many organizations to design, manage, and optimize their batch workload automation environment and to extend his passion to others by delivering Control-M trainings to end users and BMC Partners. Currently Qiang is temporary living in Sydney and working on a enterprise wide Control-M migration and Consolidation project for a major Australian bank. He enjoys working with other experts in the field and is constantly involved in finding ways for making improvements to the batch environment that he works on.

Summary:

Master one of the world's most powerful enterprise workload automation tools - BMC Control-M 7 - using this book and eBook

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1:Get to Know the Concept; Introduce batch processing; The history of batch processing; Batch processing versus interactive processing; Time-based batch and event-driven batch; Is this the end for batch processing?; Running batch processing tasks; Automating batch processing; Basic elements of a job; What to trigger; When to trigger (Job's scheduling criteria); Dependencies (Job's predecessors and dependents); More advanced features of scheduling tools

Ability to generate notifications for specified eventsAbility to handle an external event-driven batch; Intelligent scheduling - decision-making based on predefined conditions; Security features; Additional reporting, auditing, and history tracking features; Centralized enterprise scheduling; Challenges in today's batch processing; Processing time; Batch window length; Batch monitoring and management; Cross-time zone scheduling; Resource utilization; Maintenance and troubleshooting; Reporting; Reacting to changes; The solution; Processing time and resource utilization

Batch monitoring and managementCross-time zone scheduling; Maintenance and troubleshooting; Reporting; Reacting to changes; From batch scheduling to workload automation; Batch scheduling: Static scheduling; The Workload Automation concept; Dynamic batch processing with virtualization technology and cloud computing; Integration with real-time system, workload reusability; Summary; Chapter 2:Exploring Control-M; Control-M overview; Control-M road map; Key features; Supported platforms; The Control-M way; Control-M job; Submitting jobs; Post processing

From the user's perspective - Control-M/Enterprise ManagerControl-M Enterprise Manager GUI Client; Control-M Desktop; Control-M Configuration Manager; Reporting Facility; Control-M's Optional Features; Control-M Control Modules; Control-M/Forecast and BMC Batch Impact Manager; BMC Batch Discovery; Control-M Architecture and Components; Control-M/Enterprise Manager; Control-M/Enterprise Manager Server Components; Control-M/Server; Control-M/Server processes; Control-M/Agent; AG: Agent Listener, Request Handler; AT: Agent Tracker; AR: Agent Router Process; UT: Utility Process

Agentless TechnologyControl-M/Control Modules; How do Organizations Work With Control-M?; Where to Start?; General Product information; Official Education and Certification; Getting a Job in Control-M; Summary; Chapter 3:Building the Control-M Infrastructure; Three ages to workload automation; Stone age; Iron age; Golden age; Planning the Batch environment; Control-M sizing consideration; Total number of batch jobs run per day; Total number of job execution hosts; Number of datacenters; Amount of concurrent GUI users; Use Control-M/Agent or go Agentless; Production, development, and testing

Control-M high availability requirements

Notes:

Includes index.

"Master one of the world's most powerful enterprise workload automation tools - BMC Control-M 7 - using this book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283683432

1283683431

9781849682572

1849682577

OCLC:

817885473