For this Runbook sample, we will target workstations that are usually left up and running by users during the night, and we'll use it to force those machines to shutdown.

This is a very basic Runbook and works on the assumption that you have a computer group containing a list of machines that are not respecting the outside working hours, or all the workstations in the company.

So, following this example and keeping it in mind, we'll have the following Runbook at the end of this exercise:

Again, we'll keep it short in terms of explanations as by now, you'll be able to decode what's going on in this Runbook and even design your own just by taking this as a sample for your needs.

We'll start by using a Monitor Date/Time activity that we'll configure to be trigged every day at 8:30 P.M., and we'll follow it with Get Machine Status, which will verify the machine's availability by ping. This activity will be a subscription of the computer group {Workstations} ...