This recipe is a continuation of the first two recipes of this chapter. The Preparing Runbook scenarios recipe discusses identifying the right candidates for automation. The Making Runbook scenarios automation ready recipe provides steps on taking the scenario and optimizing it for the automation with SCORCH. This recipe completes the loop with a discussion and example on documenting a real scenario.
You must plan to review and perform the steps in the Preparing Runbook scenarios recipe and the Making Runbook scenarios automation ready recipe.
We will use the following scenario to discuss the steps in this recipe:
Scenario: You have a business requirement to automate the creation of new employee user accounts in Active Directory. Perform the following steps to document the design for the scenario:
Use a table to capture inputs, outputs, authorization, and notes on the process steps.
Scenario artifact
Value
Additional notes
Input
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