controlm_toolset

aapi_upgrade.ps1

• Purpose: Downloads and installs the AAPI release identified in the parameters
• Parameters: Version (default=9) Release (default=20) Fixpack (no default)
• Use: ./aapi_upgrade.ps1 -fixpack 225
• NOTE: If you install Powershell on Linux (!!) it can also be used in that OS! (tested and works!)

sndSMSviaATT.sh

• Purpose: as a control-M Shout, sends an SMS message via a REST request
• Parameters: standard shout parameters $2 is used as message and contains the phone and text message separated by "=="
• Use: as part of a Control-M shout to program

eventViaNotifDest.bat

• Purpose: Allows to send an event via the ctm cli to some other system using the notification (shout) destinations mechanism
• Parameters: standard shout parameters %2 is used as message and, separated by spaces, contains.
  • event
  • Date
    • formatted as MMDD
    • STAT, or
    • ODAT
  • Log (if Y, will write log files with the following name)
    • logfile=%currdir%%currdate%%currtime%%event%.txt
• Use: as part of a Control-M shout to program

SendAlarmToScript

• Purpose: use Alarm to script configuration to send alerts to an ITSM system
• Check the README file for the project
• Two versions very similar in design
  • Bash
  • Python
    • See an integration for Remedy ITSM at https://github.com/controlm/automation-api-community-solutions/tree/master/helix-control-m/2-external-monitoring-tools-examples/alerts-to-helix-itsm

Docker examples

Please let me know of improvements you think would be useful

• Check README here

For future

• test the STOPSIGNAL dockerfile command and use it in the run_register to test for non-usual stop signals.

Information about Kubernetes

For the Kubernetes best practice information see here

ctm_python_client examples

• Purpose: show some code samples to help developing python client code.
• Two folders:
  • helix
  • self-hosted
• aapi_*conn.py: contains the connection and authentication code.
  • class SaaSConnection(object): for Helix
  • class CtmConnection(object): for self-hosted
• where to find:
  • The repo: https://github.com/controlm/ctm-python-client
  • The doc: https://controlm.github.io/ctm-python-client/index.html
• how to install:
  • pip install ctm_python_client