Ziembicki D., Cushner A., Rynes A., Tulloch M. Microsoft System Center: Designing Orchestrator Runbooks

Microsoft Press, 2013. — 182 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7356-8298-6.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.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.Introducing System Center 2012.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
System Center Operations Manager.
System Center Service Manager.
System Center Data Protection Manager.
System Center Configuration Manager.
System Center Orchestrator.
System Center Orchestrator.
Runbook Designer.
Integration packs.
Runbook Tester.
Orchestration console.
Orchestrator Integration Toolkit.
Orchestrator architecture and deployment.
Architecture.
High availability considerations.
Orchestrator 2012 architecture patterns.
Modular runbook design and development.
What is a runbook?
Creating runbooks.
Modular runbook design.
Developing a systematic approach to IT process automation.
Orchestrator runbook best practices and patterns.
Runbook design best practices.
Using Windows PowerShell in Orchestrator.
Runbook patterns.
Modular runbook example.
Requirements.
VM provisioning input XML file.
Component runbooks.
Control runbooks.
Initiation runbook.
Calling and executing Orchestrator runbooks.
Orchestration console.
Orchestrator REST API.
System Center Service Manager service catalog.