Microsoft System Center: Designing Orchestrator Runbooks
Welcome to Microsoft System Center: Designing Orchestrator Runbooks. We believe that orchestration and automation are becoming increasingly important in IT organizations of all sizes and across all infrastructure types ranging from on-premises to cloud-based. Orchestration and automation can help reduce the cost of IT while improving consistency and quality of IT service delivery. Like any powerful technology. however, it can be both used and abused.
Our objective with this book is to provide a framework for runbook design and IT process automation to help you get the most out of System Center Orchestrator 2012 and to help you utilize Orchestrator in concert with the rest of the System Center for an enterprise-wide and systematic approach to process automation. We will provide detailed guidance for creating what we call “modular automation” where small, focused pieces of automation are progressively built into larger and more complex solutions. We detail the concept of an automation library, where over time enterprises build a progressively larger library of interoperable runbooks and components. Finally, we will cover advanced scenarios and design patterns for topics like error handling and logging, state management, and parallelism. But before we dive into the details, we’ll begin by setting the stage with a quick overview of System Center 2012 Orchestrator and deployment scenarios.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introducing System Center 2012
Chapter 2. System Center Orchestrator
Chapter 3. Orchestrator architecture and deployment
Chapter 4. Modular runbook design and development
Chapter 5. Orchestrator runbook best practices and 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 SM integration
Appendix C. About the authors
Book Details
- Paperback: 182 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press (September 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0735682984
- ISBN-13: 978-0735682986
