System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 Fundamentals

Orchestrator comes as a part of the well-known datacenter and client management toolkit, the System Center suite. Orchestrator is a visual, non-scripting- and no-coding-based solution that offers activities you can drag-and-drop onto the workspace and connect them through links to create the desired workflows.

In a computer system or network, a runbook is a compilation of routine procedures and operations that the system administrator or operator carries out. System administrators in IT departments and NOCs use runbooks as a reference. Runbooks can be in either electronic or in physical book form.

The integration pack for Operations Manager is an add-in provided by System Center Orchestrator. Use the integration pack to connect an Orchestrator Runbook server to an Operations Manager management server so you can automate various actions.

IT process automation facilitates the orchestration and integration of tools, people and processes through automated workflows. ITPA software applications can be programmed to perform any repeatable pattern, task or business workflow that was once handled manually by humans.

Every runbook is unique and specific. The actual content will be specific to your needs. The methodology, however, is the same as it is for all process creation. The first stage is to plan which procedures need to be documented in your runbook. When you have a list, you can write them up in detail. After field testing a process, you can make updates and optimizations as necessary.