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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)

Making your Runbooks highly available

The default installation of System Center 2016 Orchestrator with multiple Runbook Servers automatically provides Runbook Server fault tolerance. The Runbooks you create will automatically run on an available Runbook Server if one of the multiple servers is unavailable. You have the option to control which Runbook Server a Runbook selects.

Getting ready

You must have a fully deployed SCO environment with two or more Runbook Servers in order to successfully complete the tasks in this recipe.

The planning criteria for this recipe is as detailed in the following table:

Runbook

Priority

Runbook Server availability

SLA 1 Runbook

High

All

SLA 5 Runbook

Low

1

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