Book description
Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center - this book delivers a focused drilldown into designing runbooks for Orchestrator workflow management solutions. Series editor Mitch Tulloch and a team of System Center experts provide concise technical guidance as they step you through key design concepts, criteria, and tasks.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Introducing System Center 2012
- Chapter 2 System Center Orchestrator
- Chapter 3 Orchestrator architecture and deployment
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Chapter 4 Modular runbook design and development
- What is a runbook?
- Creating runbooks
- Modular runbook design
- Developing a systematic approach to IT process automation
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Chapter 5 Orchestrator runbook best practices and patterns
- Runbook design best practices
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Using Windows PowerShell in Orchestrator
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Windows PowerShell remoting
- Subscribe to Published Data
- Set trace and status variables to defaults
- Validate inputs
- Establish PS remote session
- Execute script in remote session
- Use try/catch/finally
- Append useful data to the Trace variable
- Add any required Windows PowerShell modules
- Use throw for common errors
- Perform core task logic
- Set ErrorState and ErrorMessage
- Return results
- Prep data for Orchestrator Publishing
- Close remote session
- Putting it all together
- Returning arrays
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Windows PowerShell remoting
- Runbook patterns
- Chapter 6 Modular runbook example
- Chapter 7 Calling and executing Orchestrator runbooks
- Appendix A Windows PowerShell source code for core component runbooks
- Appendix B Steps to set up VMM to Service Manager integration
- About the authors
- Backmatter
Product information
- Title: Microsoft System Center Designing Orchestrator Runbooks
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2013
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735682962
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