The best for visibility
Updated November 12, 2024

The best for visibility

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

Modules Used

  • Self Service
  • Application Integrator
  • Managed File Transfer

Overall Satisfaction with Control-M

We use Control-M to automate tasks on a schedule. This product has given us a central place to monitor jobs visually instead of going to each server to monitor Windows Scheduled tasks. This also lets non-admins run jobs as a self-service as well as be able to load balance tasks and Control-M servers.

Pros

  • Schedule the execution of executables daily
  • Easily gives an output of the job that has run
  • Sends email notifications

Cons

  • 24/7 cyclic jobs should kill itself before new day so we don’t have remnants of the job staying in the monitoring window
  • Be able to actually kill a job from the GUI instead of going into the Linux server to kill the process manually
  • No ROI that I can see
  • Services are able to run more efficiently because we get notified when a task has failed and we can immediately react or set up automatic "self-healing" jobs
20 - Application administration and monitoring, developers, and finance teams. Developers can now also monitor the jobs and see when jobs have failed and non-admins can run jobs on their own with the self-service product.
It is an improvement from our last product.
Control-M is very easy to use and it is easy to visually see how tasks are performing. Having the logs in one place when a task fails makes troubleshooting easier.

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

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Use Control-M when the business has a lot executables on multiple servers and each job has to run on a different schedule. This is also suited when users need to run executables, but you don't want to give non-admin users access to servers. I don't think Control-M would be appropriate for single servers.

Control-M Feature Ratings

Workload Automation
7.5
Multi-platform scheduling
8
Central monitoring
9
Logging
7
Alerts and notifications
7
Analysis and visualization
7
Application integration
7

Using Control-M

9 - Skills required would be Linux and Windows OS experience. Scripting experience with PowerShell and/or Shell.
  • Visually see how tasks are performing
  • Easily identify failed tasks in order to troubleshoot faster
  • Have non-admins be able to run tasks without giving them direct access to servers
  • Using the Application Integrator to make our own job definition to connect to Sharepoint
  • Create jobs to restart Windows services when they fail
  • Use API's to help with password update tasks
Control-M is easy to use and does what we would like to accomplish so far. There has been no headaches or pains using Control-M.

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