Microsoft System Center Designing Orchestrator Runbooks

CHAPTER 5Orchestrator runbook best practices and patterns

In this chapter we start by going over some general best practices to follow when building runbooks. Then we will delve into the best practices for using Windows PowerShell inside your runbooks to handle scenarios where the integration packs (IPs) for Orchestrator cannot be used. Lastly, we describe some patterns for runbook design that will increase reusability of your runbooks as well as patterns for handling state in long-running processes.

Runbook design best practices

This section describes best practices in the following areas of runbook design:

• Flow control

• Publishing data

• Logging execution data

• Looping

• Sequential vs. parallel activity execution

• Setting job concurrency ...