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Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook

You're reading from   Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook Simplify the automation of your administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460462
Length 310 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Steve Beaumont Steve Beaumont
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Andreas Baumgarten Andreas Baumgarten
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Michael Seidl Michael Seidl
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Samuel Erskine (EUR) Samuel Erskine (EUR)
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Preface 1. Unpacking System Center 2016 Orchestrator FREE CHAPTER 2. The Initial Configuration of SCO 2016 3. Planning and Creating Runbooks 4. Building Advanced Runbooks 5. Simple Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks 6. Advanced Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks 7. Doing More with Orchestrator

Building a looping Runbook

As a looping Runbook, we understand a Runbook contains an activity that loops until a condition is met. As we have seen in our previous examples, each activity is running only one time. A looping activity runs as much as the condition changes.

Getting ready

In this example, we will build a simple reboot Runbook where we restart a server and wait until the server is going down and is coming up again, therefore we will need a looping activity.

Perform the following steps in the Runbook Designer to prepare for the activity steps in this recipe:

  1. In the Runbook Designer, expand the connection to the SCO 2016 server.
  2. Navigate to our created 1.2-Chapter 4 folder.
  3. Create a new sub-folder called 1.2.2-Reboot...
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