The Power of the Community: New Tool to “Sanitize” Runbook Exports

When you export runbook from development environment and import in production generally this runbook imports also global settings and global configurations even if they are not referenced by the exported runbook. This is where this tool comes in help. The tool removes these global settings and configurations from the exported runbooks.

Author of the tool is Ryan Andorfer you can find more information about the tool on his blog.

SanitizeExport.exe can be download at codeplex.

Free Kelverion Runbooks for Connecting Operations Manager to Service Desks/Enterprise Management Tools

Kelverion is providing free runbooks that allows you forward alerts from SCOM 2012 to other monitoring tools and ticketing systems:

  • BMC Remedy ARS v7.5, 7.6
  • BMC Remedy ARS v7.1
  • HP Service Manager
  • Service-now.com
  • BMC Enterprise Event Manager (BEM) v7.4
  • HP Operations Manager
  • IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus

You can read more and download them on SCOM team blog.

Learn System Center Orchestrator 2012 in 5 days – Day 1

Pete Zerger provides trough the blog page of http://www.systemcentercentral.com 5 day articles for learning System Center Orchestrator 2012. Click on the link and educate yourself.

http://www.systemcentercentral.com/tabid/143/indexid/92434/default.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+systemcentercentral%2Fblogs+%28Blogs+at+System+Center+Central%29

Automation in the Private Cloud with System Center Orchestrator (former Opalis)

One of the key features of the Private Cloud is the automation. The automation gives the opportunity to automate process like Incident Management and Request Management and to focus more on proactive actions than or reactive actions.Christopher Keyaert gives us a very useful session on “How to build you first runbook” with System Center Orchestrator 2012. The session is level 200 according to me but is more than enough to learn the basics of System Center Orchestrator. After you learn the basics you can grab the evolution version of that tool and start practicing to go deep in that technology and become an expert. Click on the link below and watch.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Hh916316