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Monitoring the Monitor Runbooks
A question came up in the Orchestrator forums today about how to ensure that Monitor type workflows are running in an environment. One way to do this is using Orchestrator itself to ensure that all ‘Monitor’ workflows that are supposed … Continue reading
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Opalis Windows 7 Upgrade Process Presentation
Hey Everyone, It has come to my attention that the presentation I delivered at MMS this year never actually got uploaded to the MMS site! I have modified the presentation to only be my portion (I can’t actually share the … Continue reading
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Looping a Policy
So a question came up on the System Center Central forums, can I loop a policy? The answer is yes and there are some good reasons to do this. In order to ‘loop’ a policy it needs to be triggered … Continue reading
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Scheduled Tasks IP Policy Example
Here is a quick example of the type of workflow that the Scheduled Tasks integration pack allows for building. The IP is available at http://opalisscheduledtasks.codeplex.com/ This example policy is a part of a bigger workflow that is used to automate … Continue reading
Foreach Object from Results
A Question was posed on the Opalis forums that I thought I would take a quick second to answer as it is one that I struggled with myself initially I’m running some SQL query. I get few line results … … Continue reading
Opalis Policy Failover
Introduction Have you ever wondered how Policy Failover works in Opalis? Let’s take a look. For the purpose of this testing I am going to create a very simple workflow that sleeps for a minute then sends out an email. … Continue reading
Data Manipulation Functions
This section is pulled directly from the Opalis Help documents. I highly suggest looking through the built-in help documents in Opalis. Data Manipulation Functions Opalis Integration Server enables you to manipulate string data from text files, Published Data items, or … Continue reading
Fun with Links
I was looking at a workflow Charles had written the other day and saw that his links had labels and were colored! Well, one of the biggest reason I love Opalis is that if I create my workflow correctly almost … Continue reading
Workflow Concepts: Part II – Segregation of Work (High Level)
Introduction This is a high level (theoretical) discussion about workflow design. I will create two different how-to posts following this describing how to create workflows that follow this model as well as a post on how to design your environment … Continue reading
Workflow Concepts: Part I – Multi-Tiered Workflows
When writing your first workflow you probably just started pulling objects over and linking them together to achieve a simple task and, after a bit of playing around, you probably got it to work and do what you want (See … Continue reading
