Triggers From Non-Control M Processes

fbladmin · Post by **fbladmin** » 24 Sep 2009 11:11

I'm fairly new to working with Control M so I'm hoping some of you can offer a suggestion.

I'm trying to figure out if there is a tool within Control M that would allow us to trigger jobs from processes not running in Control M. In particular we have back-up processes running in CommVault and Netbackup that I would love to be able to have trigger other Control M events.

Any thoughts out there?

Thanks.

gglau · Post by **gglau** » 25 Sep 2009 2:36

A commonly use trigger is file creation. When a process is done, it creates a file. When a process detects the existence of the right file, it can start execution.

huoviman · Post by **huoviman** » 25 Sep 2009 11:08

Take a quick look on utilities ctmcreate and ctmorder.
With them you can order jobs from ctm via cmdline (ctmorder) or even create totally new jobs dynamically (ctmcreate).

markf · Post by **markf** » 25 Sep 2009 1:46

We use 2 methods -

1. File Watcher is great at seeing file creation/deletion (as mentioned above) and that can then trigger Control-M jobs.
2. If you have a SNMP framework tool (Tivoli or ITO/OpenView etc) then they can send conditions through (I think the CM utility is ctm_contb) which, in turn, trigger jobs.