Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 for Runbook Authors

Describe the role of integration packs (IPs), the Orchestrator Integration Toolkit (OIK) and Solution Development Kit (SDK) in extending Orchestrator functionality

Define Orchestrator key concepts and terminology

This module walks participants through the Runbook Designer and Runbook Tester and demonstrates their functionality, and lists and describes Standard Activities.

Tour of the Runbook Designer

Standard Activities

Tour of the Runbook Tester

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the layout and functionality of the Orchestrator Runbook Designer user interface used by Runbook Designers to create, modify, and deploy Runbooks

Describe the layout and functionality of the Runbook Tester interface used to test Runbooks before deployment

List and describe Standard Activities: Scheduling, Monitoring File Management, Email, Notification, Utilities, Active Directory, Windows Tasks, Text File Management

This module walks participants through the Orchestration Console, Deployment Manager and Data Store Configuration and demonstrates their functionality.

Tour of the Orchestration Console

Tour of Deployment Manager and Data Store Configuration

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the layout and functionality of the Orchestration Console used by Runbook Designers for Runbook execution and status checking (versus authoring), including viewing the real-time status of jobs and running instances, and starting and stopping Runbooks, jobs, or instances

Describe the layout and functionality of the Deployment Manager tool used by Runbook Designers to deploy integration packs (IPs), Runbook servers, and Runbook Designers

Describe the functionality of Data Store Configuration

This module walks through how to create Runbooks using basic Runbook Designer programmatic constructs.

Viewing and setting Runbook, Activity and Smart Link properties and permissions

Runbook Control and Data Flow and Manipulation

After completing this module, students will be able to:

View or set Runbook, Activity and Smart Link properties and permissions, and list common Activity properties

List and describe the basics of Runbook control flow and data control flow and manipulation, including:

Sequence, selection (branching), iteration (looping) for both activities and nested Runbooks

Smart Links and link logic

Junctions

Managing published data, subscription, multi-value data, flattening, data mapping, inter-Runbook data passing, data manipulation functions, handling of persistent data

This module walks through how to use create basic Runbooks in System Center Orchestrator 2012.

Viewing and setting Runbook, Activity and Smart Link properties and permissions

Runbook Control and Data Flow and Manipulation

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create basic workflows in Runbook Designer, including:

Simple File Management

Managing an Operating System

Read data from the Service Manager CMDB

Correlate the data from Operations Manager, the CMDB, and Configuration Manager

Take action on impacted devices and remediate the root cause of the alert

Keep incident and problem management up to date throughout the process

The remediation can be as easy as

Deploying software using the Configuration Manager Integration Pack

Executing a PowerShell script

Calling a third party tool to perform maintenance actions

Describe Runbook Design best practices, how a Runbook executes

This module summarizes key points for each topic in the course, identifies topic areas to focus on and review, and helps participants prepare to apply the concepts back on the job.