The web service
Let's now go around the web service of Orchestrator 2012 R2.
Although this service might be useful for the Infrastructure management team, this is really a service that developers should be aware of and looking at.
This web service is a REST-based service that exposes Orchestrator resources and data through the Open Data Protocol (OData). You can access the web service using languages such as C# and/or scripting languages such as Windows PowerShell.
The service is accessible through an URL (http://packtscorchw:81/Orchestrator2012/Orchestrator.svc/) that will show you an XML-formatted website (refer to the following screenshot) with the Orchestrator resources available through the web service.
You can also use this website to test whether the service is running.
With this web service, you can execute a few tasks:
- List Runbooks
- Start Runbooks
- View and Stop Jobs
- View Event Logs
You can also call the logging information for those Runbooks from the database through the web service...
