Purpose and way the resources work

ashwin080 · Post by **ashwin080** » 05 Nov 2011 2:18

Hi,

Can anyone tell regarding the purpose and how the resources work in control-m.... Are the resoucres present on the server or they are just used as logical expression in the control-m.... Please let me know how it works and its purpose.....

Regards,
Ashwin

markf · Post by **markf** » 11 Nov 2011 11:20

They are simply logical representations of resources. For example, I have 10 tape drives available - on the Control-M Server I create 10 Quantitative Resources called 'tape_drive'. I have 150 backup jobs and I create all with one Quantitative Resources called 'tape_drive' ... release all 150 jobs and only a maximum of 10 jobs will run at any one time.

Control Resources are slightly different in that they exist only within each job definition. The are usually used when you don't want 2 (or more) jobs to run at the same time, e.g. DB housekeeping.

The latest version of Control-M (v7) has workload balancing in it and this starting to tie Control-M resources into actual resources on the machine (e.g. CPU usage).

ashwin080 · Post by **ashwin080** » 15 Nov 2011 1:39

So all the jobs that receive quantitative resources run at the same time or will it run in order....

markf · Post by **markf** » 15 Nov 2011 12:54

If the jobs get released at exactly the same time and needs to use the same QRs then the execution order will be random ... unless you use the "Priority" field on the Execution tab (a value of 99 being the highest).

ashwin080 · Post by **ashwin080** » 16 Nov 2011 6:08

How is priority set... Is it defined by the user or can by set by anyone....

brownbag · Post by **brownbag** » 24 Nov 2011 4:31

It is a field in the job definition. Look for it in the Execution tab of the job editing form.

Purpose and way the resources work

Purpose and way the resources work

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