Tag: System Center Orchestrator

FREE Kelverion Webinar – Best Practices for persisting Runbook Data in Orchestrator

Posted by Greg Charman on http://www.systemcentercentral.com forum:

Learn the best practices for persisting Runbook Data in Orchestrator
Are you beginning your journey with System Center 2012 Orchestrator? Have you built your first Runbooks and struggling to store data and recover it easily Do you wish you knew…

• What pitfalls to avoid when trying to store data gather in an Orchestrator Runbook?
• How best to store data in your Runbook Solution?
• How to optimise the performance of Orchestrator?
Kelverion System Center 2012 Orchestrator experts. We have more more than 5 years’ experience in building large, complex automation solutions using Orchestrator and Opalis and over the years have faced virtually every challenge thrown up when implementing Orchestrator. When we build an Orchestrator Solution we also implement it with a Runtime database also side to persist Runbook data.
Attend this valuable webcast Best Practices for persisting Runbook Data in Orchestrator, Thursday, November 29th at 10:00 am GMT.
Learn …

1. What pitfalls to avoid when trying to store data gather in an Orchestrator Runbook?
2. Why to leverage a database alongside Orchestrator for data persistency
3. How to leverage the database to optimise the performance of your Orchestrator Solution

Change Calendar in Service Manager with Orchestrator and Exchange

Out of the box Service Manager doesn’t have a change calendar but Anders Bengtsson how quick and easy it is to create such with integration tool like Orchestrator and a service like Exchange. In order to build the solutions you can follow thee steps here.

Orchestrator dashboard in Operations Manager 2012

If you want some useful dashboards for Orcehstrator in SCOM Anders Bengtsson shares with the community such management pack. Read more about what you can the with the MP and download it from here.

Free webinars and training videos for SCSM and SCOrch

For free monthly webinars about SCOrch and SCSM register here http://www.eventbrite.com/org/2765564380?s=10428094 and videos are located here.

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta Integration Pack for Windows Azure

Customers who have Hybrid Clouds want to automate their Private Cloud as well as their Public Cloud. Now this task can be easier with the new System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Integration Pack for Windows Azure. This integration pack for Orchestrator is still in beta but you can download it and start testing it. The integration pack includes activities as:

  • Azure Certificates- the Azure Certificates activity is used in a runbook to add, delete, and list management and service certificates
  • Azure Deployments- the Azure Deployments activity is used in a runbook to create, delete, get, and swap deployments, change deployment configurations, update deployment statuses, rollback an update or upgrade, get and change deployment operating systems, upgrade deployments, walk upgrade domains, and reboot and reimage role instances
  • Azure Cloud Services- the Azure Cloud Services activity is used in a runbook to create, delete, and get cloud services, check cloud service name availability, and create affinity groups
  • Azure Storage- The Azure Storage activity is used in a runbook to create, delete, update, and list storage accounts, get storage account properties, get and regenerate storage account keys, create, list, and delete containers, and put, copy, delete, list, snapshot, and download blobs
  • Azure Virtual Machine Disks- the Azure Virtual Machine Disks activity is used in a runbook to add, delete, update, and list virtual machine disks and virtual machine data disks
  • Azure Virtual Machine Images- the Azure Virtual Machine Images activity is used in a runbook to add, delete, update, and list virtual machine operating system images
  • Azure Virtual Machines- the Azure Virtual Machines activity is used in a runbook to create virtual machine deployments, download virtual machine remote desktop files, as well as get, delete, start, restart, shutdown, capture, and update virtual machine roles

 

Download the integration pack from here.