Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

Author: Michael Seidl;Andreas Baumgarten;Steve Beaumont  

Publisher: Packt Publishing‎

Publication year: 2017

E-ISBN: 9781786466006

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781786460462

Subject: TP2 自动化技术及设备;TP393 computer network

Keyword: 自动化技术及设备,计算机网络

Language: ENG

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Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

Description

Over 30 recipes to automate your mission-critical tasks using the new and powerful Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator About This Book • Create powerful runbooks for the entire System Center 2016 product line • Explore System Center 2016 Orchestrator to manage and automate your datacenter • A recipe-based guide to using SCO efficiently Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator and want to simplify the process of automating system administration tasks using System Center Orchestrator 2016 then this book is for you. A basic knowledge of SCO is expected What You Will Learn • Create Runbooks for IT Service Management processes • Design and create Runbooks for System Center Confguration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager • Set up System Center Orchestrator, making it highly available • Create branching, looping, and child Runbooks to completely master System Center 2016 Orchestrator • Implement a security model for your System Center Orchestrator deployment and to execute Runbooks • Manage and automate your Datacenter with powerful Runbooks • Automate your System Center environment In Detail With Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook, you will start by learning how to efficiently install and secure System Center Orchestrator. You will then learn how you can create configuration files for SCO 2016. After initial installation and configuration, you will soon be planning and creating functional and fault-tolerant System Center runbooks to aut

Chapter

Chapter 1: Unpacking System Center 2016 Orchestrator

Introduction

Understanding the Orchestrator architecture

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works...

Planning the Orchestrator deployment

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Installing a single server deployment

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Making the Orchestrator environment highly available

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Deploying an additional Runbook Server

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Chapter 2: The Initial Configuration of SCO 2016

Introduction

Deploying an additional Runbook Designer

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Registering an SCO Integration Pack

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Deploying the IP to Designers and Runbook Servers

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

There's more…

The initial Integration Pack configuration

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

See also

Creating and maintaining a security model for Orchestrator

Getting ready

Security model scenario

How to do it...

Preparing and organizing the environment

Configuring DCOM permissions

Designer and console delegation

Configuring AD IP Runbook permissions

Restricting options by Runbook Designer Integration Pack deployment

How it works...

There's more…

See also

Chapter 3: Planning and Creating Runbooks

Introduction

Initial steps to consider before creating a Runbook

Getting ready

How to do it...

Identifying scenarios

Validating and agreeing

Optimizing and documenting

How it works...

Making Runbook scenarios automation ready

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Documenting Runbook designs

Getting ready

How to do it...

Scenario

How it works...

See also

Understanding the Orchestrator scenario building blocks

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

A tour of the Runbook Designer

A tour of Runbook Tester

The Orchestration web console

Runbook Designer standards and primer

Getting ready

How to do it...

How to standardize your activity configuration

Check in and check out

Working with custom and databus parameters

How it works...

There's more...

Expanding parameter fields

See also

Creating a Runbook

Getting ready

How to do it...

Building an Ad-Hoc Runbook

Building a monitoring Runbook

How it works...

There's more…

Chapter 4: Building Advanced Runbooks

Introduction

Creating a child Runbook

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using variables in different Runbook activities

See also

Building a looping Runbook

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Implementing logging in your Runbook

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Simple logging

Enhanced logging

There is more…

Implementing error handling in your Runbooks

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Making your Runbooks highly available

Getting ready

How to do it...

High priority Runbook available on all Runbook Servers

Low priority Runbook is available on one Runbook Server

How it works...

There's more...

Promoting and demoting primary Runbook Servers

Chapter 5: Simple Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks

Introduction

Active Directory – Deleting inactive computer accounts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Deleting obsolete user accounts in Active Directory

See also

SCOM – Activating maintenance mode for a server

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

SCVMM – Removing an attached ISO from a VM

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Logging events to Orchestrator

System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager Integration Pack

See also

ConfigMgr – Automating the update Installation process

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

See also

SCSM – Raising priority, if an affected user is a VIP

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Chapter 6: Advanced Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks

Introduction

Active Directory – Sending an email to users if their password will expire soon

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

SCOM – Advanced alerting with SCO

Getting ready

How to do it…

Update DA Alerts Runbook

Send mail Runbook

Notify external helpline Runbook

Notify Helpdesk Runbook

Notify Business Owner Runbook

Notify SCOM-Alert

DA-Alert Runbook

Monitoring Alerts Runbook

How it works…

There is more…

Chapter 7: Doing More with Orchestrator

Introduction

Starting an SCO Runbook using PowerShell

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There is more…

Starting an SCO Runbook with the Orchestration Console

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There is more…

Using SCOOSP to provide self service with SCO

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

There is more…

Start a service

Manage you and your team

Dynamic questions

SCOOSP licensing

See also

Maintaining and health checking SCO

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

There is more…

See also

Index

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