September 2013
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
19h 56m
English
book
System Center 2012 Orchestrator Unleashed
by Kerrie Meyler, Pete Zerger, Marcus Oh, Anders Bengtsson, Kurt Van Hoecke, Romuald Gauvin, Nicholas J. Dattilo
Overview
Using System Center 2012 Orchestrator, you can capture and
document processes across your entire IT organization, establishing
the automation you need to deliver advanced cloud services and
self-adjusting computing resources.
Authored by five leading System Center experts, this comprehensive
reference and technical guide brings together all the knowledge
you’ll need to architect, install, implement, integrate, and
maximize the value of your own Orchestrator solutions. The authors
introduce current best practices based on large-scale enterprise
implementations they’ve personally led or participated
in.
This up-to-date guide shows how to apply Orchestrator’s major
improvements to implement IT process automation in any environment,
including private clouds. You’ll start with context: what
Orchestrator does, how it has evolved, how it works, and essential
architecture and design techniques. Next, the authors help you make
crucial up-front decisions about activities, runbooks, security,
and administration. Finally, you’ll find expert guidance for
integrating Orchestrator with the rest of System Center and with
Windows Azure cloud services—including advanced automated
workflows that encompass both data center and cloud.
Detailed information on how to…
• Understand System Center 2012 Orchestrator’s
capabilities, evolution, architecture, and design, including SP1
improvements and R2
• Successfully install System Center 2012 Orchestrator and
migrate smoothly from Opalis Integration Server 6.3
• Take full advantage of Orchestrator’s advanced new
runbook automation capabilities
• Configure activities associated with runbook control,
systems, scheduling, monitoring, files, email, notification, and
data handling
• Design runbooks for fault tolerance and optimal
performance
• Enforce strong security using roles, permissions, and
auditing
• Deliver integration capabilities for Operations Manager,
Service Manager, Configuration Manager, Virtual Machine Manager,
and Data Protection Manager
• Automate end-to-end data center/ cloud workflows with
integration packs and PowerShell
• Create your own integration packs with Orchestrator
Integration Toolkit (OIT.SDK)
• Support Orchestrator 2012, troubleshoot problems, and
discover the best web and third-party resources
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