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Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Beaumont, Samuel Erskine (EUR), Andreas Baumgarten, Seidl
Book Image

Microsoft System Center 2016 Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

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

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)

Starting an SCO Runbook with the Orchestration Console

The Orchestration Console can be used to start a Runbook and enter the parameters. It will be installed with the first SCO Management Server.

Getting ready

On your server or workstation you would like to call the Orchestration Console, you need to install the Silverlight Plugin. The Orchestration Console uses Silverlight.

The URL to open the Orchestration Console should look like this: http://svtgsco01:82/.

There is an easy way to determine the URL:

  1. Open the Orchestrator Runbook Designer.
  2. Click on the Orchestration Console on the top navigation bar:

How to do it…

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