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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)

SCOM – Advanced alerting with SCO

In this recipe, we will create multiple Runbooks. This has to be done because, tasks can be very complicated and powerful, so we will split as much task as possible among separate Runbooks.

We will create a full function SCOM alerting, to send notifications to business service owners, technical accounts, and external helpline.

The business process of this workflow is defined in the following diagram:

Refer to the diagram about Runbooks as well:

Getting ready

To successfully complete this recipe you will need a System Center Operations Manager 2016 environment with at least one configured distributed application.

For our example we will be using a distributed application called DA_Mailservice...