Challenge The default syncing mechanism for integrating Service Manager and Orchestrator is based on discovery through connectors and initiation by Runbook Guid. This is great for demos and simple implementations of Service Manager and Orchestrator, you just connect the two,…
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Triggering Orchestrator Runbook from Service Manager
Tagged with: Management Pack, Orchestrator, ScorchLauncher, Service Manager, Web Service
Posted in Infrastructure
Posted in Infrastructure
Orchestrator Security Considerations: Section 2: Account Management
One of the practical problems that we come up against in Orchestrator is how effectively manage accounts. It seems easy to just run everything under one ‘super user’ account that has access to everything, i.e. provision an Orchestrator AD account,…
Runbooks not showing up
A very common problem I see on the Orchestrator forums is people noticing that their Runbooks are not showing up properly in their web service. This usually manifests itself when they are looking either in Service Manager (Runbooks not all…
Tagged with: Orchestrator, Runbooks not Showing Up, SCORCH, Service Manager Sync, Troubleshooting, Web Console, Web Service
Posted in Infrastructure
Posted in Infrastructure
Orchestrator Security Considerations Section 1: Global Configurations
Inside of Orchestrator there are two types of roles, for simplicity sake we will call them developer and analyst. The developer role is controlled by adding people or groups to the OrchestratorsUserGroup group on your environments management server, access to…
Orchestrator Security Considerations Introduction
We just completed an internal review about how to handle security in Orchestrator and a lot of good conversation was had around the topic that I think will be applicable to the larger Orchestrator community. There are quite a few…
Useful Orchestrator SQL Queries
Just thought I’d post up some useful SQL queries that I use regularly in our environments! Web Service Authorization Cache –Refresh Authorization Cache Use Orchestrator Truncate table [Microsoft.SystemCenter.Orchestrator.Internal].AuthorizationCache DECLARE @secToken INT DECLARE tokenCursor CURSOR FOR SELECT Id…
Automating the Export and TFS Check-In of Workflows
For disaster recovery reasons in Orchestrator it is beneficial to have backups of individual Workflows. In order to facilitate this and not increase the amount of manual work that has to be done we have come up with a workflow…
Tagged with: Automated Export, Check-In, Export, Export File, Orchestrator, TFS, Workflow
Posted in General Information, Infrastructure, Workflow
Posted in General Information, Infrastructure, Workflow
Enterprise Orchestrator Infrastructure Design
Active / Passive Production Environment Purpose Running of production workflows Environment Description Mirrored Multi Server Environment Scale Out Points Web Tier – Add additional Servers to this role (and to F5 VIP) if Web Service load becomes Heavy Action…
Advanced Parallel Processing of Runbook Activities
In a recent blog post Robert Hearn talked about how to enable true parallel processing in Orchestrator by using the Invoke Runbook object with the ‘wait for completion’ checkmark unchecked. There are two challenges that this scenario presents, how do…
Runbook SQL Injection
With our implementation of Orchestrator 2012 we plan to fully implement and utilize the fancy new web tier – specifically we plan to expand our automation to include many more user initiated workflows. This means that we will need to…
Tagged with: Community, Integration Pack, Orchestrator, Security, SQL, SQL Injection
Posted in General Information, Integration Pack
Posted in General Information, Integration Pack
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