Transcript SCOrch FunRecipiesForRunBooks

SCORCH – Fun Recipes for
RunBooks
#MMSSCOrch
Steve Jesok & Matthew Teegarden
@SteveJesok
http://mnscug.org/blogs/steve-jesok
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Our Agenda
• Orchestrator Overview
• Things to consider when building RunBooks
• Let make some things happen!
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Create an AD User
Monitor SCCM Application Requests
Monitoring Scorch with Scorch
Reporting, reporting, reporting…
Import Inventory Data to SCCM
PowerShell and SCCM
Trigger SSRS Reports
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SCOrch Overview
Components
• Runbook Designer
• Web Console
• Deployment Manager
• Web Service
• Database
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Things to consider
• Keep runbooks modular, they are building blocks
• Initiation, Control, and Components
• Keep things tidy, aka avoid 50 steps in a RunBook
• Watch RunBook performance
• Orchestrator is meant to automate, not replace other tools.
• Control SCCM, controls SSRS, use the existing building blocks.
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Create AD User
• Create an AD User and Send Data To SCSM
• Demo
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Monitor SCCM Application Requests
• Create Notifications for SCCM Application Requests
• Query the database to pickup requests
• Drop the items in Sharepoint
• Action the approved requests
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Monitoring SCOrch with SCOrch
• Rather than watch them all, just watch one.
• SharePoint List
• Monitor Runbook
• Component Runbook
• Email Alerts
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Reporting doesn’t have to be have hard…
• Finding issues in the Designer console
• Always reactive
• Notified something is wrong, after it has happened at least once.
• Use the logging pane in Runbook Designer
• Log History
• Audit History
• Events
• All of this data is in the database!
• Get it here
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Import Inventory Data into SCCM
• Company Inventory Data
• Import MOF
• Run SQL queries to discover
• MOF Inbox drop
• Data in one place
• Why, dynamic collections based on users assigned computer
equipment
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SCCM and PowerShell
• Using the SCCM Cmdlets with SCCM
• Leverage PSSession
• Block Boot Media
• Monitor limiting collections
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Execute an SSRS Report
• Leverage a little SQL
• Create a Report
• Create a Report Subscription
• Grant access to the service acct
• Edit extension settings and fire
• Check the status of the report
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Automated the small parts then go big!
• Start with the small parts then go big
• Automate collection management for software deployments
• Automate OSD and Refreshes
• Automate management of dead objects in AD
• Use automated SSRS integration to dynamically send reports
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Where can I get more information?
Resources
Orchestrator Team Blog - http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/
Andorfer’s Blog - http://opalis.wordpress.com/
Anders’ Blog - http://contoso.se/blog/
Codeplex SCOrch - http://scorch.codeplex.com/
Orchestrator eBook - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2013/09/18/free-ebooksystem-center-designing-orchestrator-runbooks.aspx
SMA - http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Service-Managementfcd75828/file/107343/4/Service%20Management%20Automation%20whitepaper-1.0.3.pdf
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