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Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 Essentials

By : Oliveira
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Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 Essentials

By: Oliveira

Overview of this book

With the increasing complexity of systems in our infrastructure designs, administrating these systems has become more complex and repetitive. This ultimately translates into an inefficient environment and loss of time. System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 is the tool that can help you regain that time again, by simplifying repetitive tasks (or complex ones) into a simple one that will require minimum intervention from you, or even none. This technology will drive you one step forward towards a more dynamic infrastructure and can also be used to make a customized Private Cloud environment setup. Starting off with the fundamentals of Orchestrator, this book helps you to learn the configuration and deployment of the Orchestrator 2012 R2 in a corporate environment to successfully deploy and mitigate real-life issues that you might encounter. You’ll learn the most used part of Orchestrator, the Runbook Designer, with all its components and mechanisms to help you efficiently design and implement your Runbooks from top to bottom. Additionally, you will also get familiarized with configuring key Integration Packs available for Orchestrator to extend its functionality and enhance the automation solution. Furthermore, you will explore the possibilities of extending and integrating Orchestrator with other parties and learn to set up core infrastructure administrative tasks that can save time and effort when automated with Orchestrator. You finally round off by gaining insights on the maintenance aspects of Orchestrator, while simultaneously covering the troubleshooting, backup, and recovery features.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Deployment Manager

We've already addressed this component of Orchestrator in Chapter 3, Orchestrator Integration Packs, but at that point, we were targeting only the Integration Packs deployment.

So far, we've addressed the Integration Packs registration and deployment against our Runbook Servers and Runbook Designers to get the activities that will allow us to integrate with other systems in our datacenter.

Now, the Deployment Manager can also help you deploy more from Orchestrator, more specifically:

  • Deploy Runbook Servers remotely from the Management Server, as long as you have the permissions to do so
  • Deploy the Runbook Designer remotely as well, allowing you to closely control the access and permissions given to the people that develop Runbooks

A few things to keep in mind before starting the deployment of new Runbook Servers through the Deployment Manager or even Runbook Designers are as follows:

  • Don't forget to get the requirements installed properly beforehand, otherwise...