Microsoft® System Center 2012 Unleashed

Building a Runbook

The number of combinations of activities that can be configured within Orchestrator is tremendous, allowing for a wide variety of workflow possibilities. Perhaps the best way to gain an understanding of how to organize and configure activities into an effective runbook is to consider some examples. With that in mind, within this section two sample runbook builds will be described, providing details on the runbook build process. The first runbook example will make use of only standard activities, while the second example will combine activities from an Integration Pack along with standard activities.

Sample Runbook Using Standard Activities—Copy File and Log Event

The first example is a simple runbook that can be used to manipulate ...