I am sole administartor who manages all the jobs and servers
Updated August 13, 2024

I am sole administartor who manages all the jobs and servers

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

Control-M is wonderful product and we are using to schedule our customer scripts, this will help user top monitor and perform any action agains their jobs

Pros

  • Newday
  • conditions
  • calanders
  • external authentication
  • reports
  • API

Cons

  • event based triger
  • internal java for new versions
  • cpu, memory and disk monitors
  • supports all the environment
  • easy to use
  • supports web uinterface
  • negative : not stable
  • lot of bugs recently
Business process outsourcing
Control-M is the best for scheduling but the backend its unstable with lot of bugs
more user friendly and more option to schdule the steams and schedules

Do you think Control-M delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Control-M's feature set?

Yes

Did Control-M live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Control-M go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Control-M again?

Yes

I have been using Control-M for the past 9 yeats and its a best tool for scheduling

Control-M Feature Ratings

Workload Automation
8.2
Multi-platform scheduling
10
Central monitoring
10
Logging
5
Alerts and notifications
10
Analysis and visualization
5
Application integration
9

Using Control-M

30 - mostly schedulers will take care of job actions
  • people soft
  • hadoop
  • informatica
  • batch scheduling
  • integrate with mainframe Control-M
  • integrated with xmatters
  • service now integration
  • stable version
  • stable support
  • more training on advanced troubleshopoting

Evaluating Control-M and Competitors

Not Sure
  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
I have integrated with multi tools like xmatters service now
i did not get the questions

Control-M Implementation

i have implemented the Control-M for many customers and i suggest this toll strongly
  • Implemented in-house
Change management was a major issue with the implementation - Yes, we change management is major issue we need to get approval from multo level not an easy task to implement or upgrade
  • jobs ordering multiple times
  • logs and output not visble
  • agent fails to communicate
  • jobs went to unknow state

Control-M Training

  • No Training
Yes, Control-M is easy to learn and there are lot of youtube videos available

Configuring Control-M

cofigurations are very simple and easily can be modfied for any components
i am really happy that most of the configuration updates that we can perform from CCM or web
Yes - we have customized the interface extensively - yes, we use CCM and web server interface for configuration changes and it really saves lot of times without login the server
Yes - we have added extensive custom code - sometimes we use customised scrits to automate the regular bau like jobs,condition cleanup and force update by the user, forecast reports customisation and reports
I have automated auto cleanup josb from AJF

Control-M Support

need to improve from support end especially when the issue occured and more details on RCA
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Knowledgeable team
Kept well informed
Immediate help available
Poor followup
Problems left unsolved
Escalation required
Need to explain problems multiple times
I am not sure what is premium support, if possible pls share the details
Yes - i reported the bug but this will be fixed in later versions only and not get solution for the current setup
yeah i recieve a response from bmc as expected based on seviority

Using Control-M

ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Feel confident using
Requires technical support
Cumbersome
Lots to learn
  • api commands
  • Control-M backend commands
  • database queries
  • using web and it hangs some time
  • report fails when its more data
  • agent fails to communciate by default
Yes, but I don't use it

Control-M Reliability

Yes, Control-M is more relaible and scalable but needs to improve more stability especially the communciation between the agents, CTM server and EM
this is the one thing i have disappointed with Control-M, the avialabilty is not stable in recent versiosn and i can see many components are hung and back to normal
performace wise Control-M is doing well, 1 laks jobs loaded in a min from tool

Integrating Control-M

Yes, its easy to integrate with other tools and we did integration for many application like service now, xmatters, ldap
  • xmatters
  • service now
  • ldap
  • smtp server
  • RDS
  • MFT
  • Mail
  • chat like microsoft teams
  • office tools
  • Single Signon
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
integration with live events would be more helpful lile outlook , teams

Relationship with BMC Software Inc.

I love control-m tool
market best tool and therre are lot of integraion and easy to use
i am using it for past 9 years and i really like this tool very much
more on supporting side
from my experince i would suggest to customers Control-M first
marketing

Upgrading Control-M

Yes - we upgrade every year to next version
  • enhancement like more actions web interface
  • fixing the bugs
  • utilise the new features
  • need high level support from BMC
  • proper roadmap or any techinical doument which describes more on upgrade
  • also publish tech doc which contains the issues occured during the updgrade

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