Service Management

You can manage, monitor, and view the status of a service. A service is a select group of jobs in a workflow based on filtering criteria. You can view the progress of the jobs in a service, such as how many jobs are awaiting execution, or when they are expected to finish executing.

The following procedures describe how to manage services:

• Finding Services: Find and view the status of a service.

• Holding a Service: Hold a service. Control-M stops the service processing and allows you to fix any problems that have occurred.

• Releasing a Service: Release a service from a hold state and allow the service to continue running.

• Viewing the History of Services: View the history of a service. You can view the status and service details of services from a previous date.

• Running a Service: Run all jobs in a service.

For a description of the Services page, see Services Navigation.

Finding Services

This procedure describes how to find and view the status of a specific service.

Begin

1. From the Services tool bar, click the Filter drop-down list.

2. In the Search Services field, type the name of the service you want to find.

3. From the Filter drop-down list, select to filter the service by status.

   The services that match the filtered criteria appear.

   To view the service details tabs, see Service Details.

Holding a Service

This procedure describes how to hold a service based on a job or a SMART folder, which stops the service from processing and enables you to fix any problems that might have occurred.

Begin

1. From the Services window, select a service to hold.

2. From the Actions drop-down list, select Hold.

   The services are automatically refreshed at defined intervals.

   A hold icon appears on the service and is no longer executing.

Releasing a Service

This procedure describes how to release a service from a Hold state, which enables the service to run.

You cannot release a service that is not based on a Job or a SMART folder.

Begin

1. From the Services window, select a held service to release.

2. From Actions drop-down list, select Release.

   The services are automatically refreshed at defined intervals.

   The Hold icon disappears from the service and the service is now available to continue running.

Viewing the History of Services

This procedure describes how to view the history of a service, which enables you to see the status and service details of services from a previous date.

Begin

1. From the Today drop-down list, select History.

2. Select a date that you want to view.

The services that match your criteria appear.

Running a Service

This procedure describes how to run a service, which enables you to run all the jobs within the service.

Begin

1. Click Run Service.

   The Run Service window appears.

2. Select a service. You can search for a service by typing a name in the search field.

3. (Optional) Select the Run as independent flow checkbox, which determines if a flow in a folder runs as a separate flow in a viewpoint.

4. For each parameter, type in or select a value.

5. To run another service without reopening the Run Service window, click Keep open after running.

6. Click Run.

   The new service appears regardless of search or filtering criteria, and remains until replaced with the scheduled service.

Updating an SLA Management Service Deadline

This procedure describes how to update an SLA Management service deadline.

Begin

1. Select an SLA Management service to update the deadline.

2. From Actions drop-down list, select Update Deadline.

   The Update Deadline window appears.

3. Update the date and time and click Save.

   The deadline is updated.

Service Details

The following table describes the service details tabs:

Tab	Description
Summary	Shows details such as, start and end time, progress, number of Jobs in the service, number of Jobs completed, run IDThe ID code of the run of a folder, sub-folder, or job, and description of the selected service, as described in Service Summary Tab.
Errors	Shows error messages of the selected service.
Parameters	Shows the defined parameters and values of the selected service.
Log	Shows the activity log of the selected service, as described in Service Log Tab.
Tickets	Shows the list of Control-M, SIM, or Remedy tickets that are opened due to an issue with an SLA service.

Service Summary Tab

The following table describes the service summary and list view tabs:

Tab	Description
Status	Shows one of the following possible statuses: Executing Wait for EventAn entity that creates a sequence relationship between jobs by enabling the successor job to execute after the predecessor job has executed Wait Resource Wait User Unknown Ended OK Ended Not OK
Start	Shows the time stamp when the service started to execute.
End	Shows the time stamp when the service stopped executing.
Progress	Shows the execution progress of the jobs in the selected service.
Deadline	Shows the time when a service must complete to not be considered late.
Slack Time	Defines the amount of time that a job within an SLA Management service can be delayed without causing another job to be delayed or impacting the completion time of the SLA Management service.
Avg Completion Time	Defines the average completion time for a job in the service.
By	Shows the name of the person who executed the service.
ID	Shows the Run ID number.
Date	Shows the date and the time the service executed.
Priority	Shows the priority level of the service.

Service Log Tab

The following table describes the service log tabs:

Tab	Description
Event Time	Shows the time stamp of the service activity.
From Status	Shows the previous status of the service.
To Status	Shows the current status of the service.