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Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Michael Seidl, Steve Beaumont, Samuel Erskine (EUR), Andreas Baumgarten
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Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Michael Seidl, Steve Beaumont, Samuel Erskine (EUR), Andreas Baumgarten

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Implementing logging in your Runbook

Until your Runbook is doing fine, logging is not often needed. But if there are problems, or maybe a case you didn't thought about during the initial Process of building your Runbooks, it is necessary to read some logs.

Getting ready

Runbooks already provide a log file, but only a very limited one with only less information about the start and end time and status; and if there is an error, the error message itself.

But this is not enough, so there should be a way to enhance the Logging of our Runbooks.

Navigate to your Runbook with the name 1.2.2-Reboot a Server.

How to do it…

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