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Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook
Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook

Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook: Simplify the automation of your administrative tasks , Second Edition

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Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook

The Initial Configuration of SCO 2016

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Deploying an additional Runbook Designer
  • Registering an SCO Integration Pack
  • Deploying the IP to Designers and Runbook Servers
  • The initial Integration Pack configuration
  • Creating and maintaining a security model for Orchestrator

Introduction

The recipes in Chapter 1, Unpacking System Center 2016 Orchestrator, discuss setting up the System Center 2016 Orchestrator environment and how to make it highly available. This chapter will show you how to set up an Orchestrator environment and how to deploy and configure Orchestrator Integration Packs.

Deploying an additional Runbook Designer

The recipes in Chapter 1, Unpacking System Center 2012 Orchestrator, discuss deploying SCO in a single or scaled mode. In either case, you can scale out further after the initial deployment.

The Runbook Designer is the key Feature to build your Runbooks. After the initial installation, Runbook Designer is installed on the Server. For your daily work with Orchestrator and Runbooks, you have to install the Runbook Designer on your client or on an Admin Server. We will go through these steps in this recipe.

Getting ready

You must review the Planning the Orchestrator deployment recipe from Chapter 1, Unpacking System Center 2016 Orchestrator, before performing the steps in this recipe....

Registering an SCO Integration Pack

Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator (SCO) automation is driven by process automation components.

These process automation components are similar in concept to a physical toolbox. In a toolbox, you typically have different types of tools, which enable you to build what you desire. In the context of SCO, these tools are known as Activities.

Activities fall into two main categories:

  • Built-in Standard Activities: These are the default activity categories available to you in the Runbook Designer. The standard activities on their own provide you with a set of components to create very powerful Runbooks.
  • Integration Pack Activities: Integration Pack Activities are provided either by Microsoft, the community, solution integration organizations, or are custom created by using the Orchestrator Integration Pack Toolkit. These activities provide...

Deploying the IP to Designers and Runbook Servers

Registering the Orchestrator Integration Pack is only the first step; you also need to deploy the OIP to your Designer or Runbook Server.

Getting ready

You have to follow the steps described in the Registering an SCO Integration Pack recipe before you can start with the next steps to deploy an OIP.

How to do it...

In our example, we will deploy the Active Directory Integration Pack to our Runbook Designer.

Follow these steps to deploy the Active Directory Integration Pack.

Once the IP in scope (AD IP in our example) has...

The initial Integration Pack configuration

This recipe provides the steps required to configure an Integration Pack for use once it has been successfully deployed to a Runbook Designer.

Getting ready

You must deploy an Orchestrator environment and also deploy the IP you plan to configure to a Runbook Designer before following the steps in this recipe.

The authors assume that the user account performing the installation has administrative privileges on the server nominated for the SCO Runbook Designer.

How to do it...

Each Integration Pack serves as an interface to the...

Creating and maintaining a security model for Orchestrator

Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator provides you with the ability to delegate and secure components in its infrastructure. The process to create this security model differs from some of the other System Center family of products. In this recipe, we will discuss and provide steps to configure a security model using a real world scenario.

Getting ready

You must have a fully deployed System Center 2016 Orchestrator environment in order to complete this recipe.

Security model scenario

In our example environment...

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Key benefits

  • ?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

Description

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 automate daily tasks and routine operations. Next you will delve into runbooks; you will learn how to create powerful and advanced runbooks such as Building your Runbook without a Dead End. You will also learn to create simple and advanced runbooks for your daily tasks. Towards the end of the book, you will learn to use SCO for other interesting tasks and also learn to maintain and perform SCO health checks. By the end of the book, you will be able to automate your administrative tasks successfully with SCO.

Who is this book 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
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Table of Contents

7 Chapters
Unpacking System Center 2016 Orchestrator Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Initial Configuration of SCO 2016 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Planning and Creating Runbooks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building Advanced Runbooks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Simple Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Advanced Runbooks for Your Daily Tasks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Doing More with Orchestrator Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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If you are learning Orchestrator and seeking for the accelerator to improve your skills, this book will help you a lot. It's a cookbook, well-structured and short. However, recipes describe real-world examples and teaches you how to automate your tasks in the best way. Thanks MVPs!
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