Orchestrator Components

The following are the components that are included in all basic deployments of System Center Orchestrator:

Runbook Designer—The tool used to build, edit, and manage Orchestrator runbooks.

Orchestration database—A Microsoft SQL Server database that contains all of the deployed runbooks, log files, and configuration data for Orchestrator.

Management server—The system that acts as a communication layer between the Runbook Designer and the orchestration database.

Runbook server—The system where an instance of a runbook is run. For larger deployments, it is possible to deploy multiple runbook servers to increase capacity and redundancy.

Runbook tester—A runtime tool used to test runbooks developed in the Runbook Designer. ...

Get Microsoft® System Center 2012 Unleashed now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.