How to Run Runbooks

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Applies To: Orchestrator 2012 Release Candidate

You will learn how to run the runbooks that you previously created from the Orchestration console.

You will also learn how to view runbook details and how to find event log information.

Warning

Before you run the Monitor Runbook activity in the Orchestration console, you must ensure the job that was started in Runbook Designer has been stopped.

All runbooks that start with a Monitoring activity, such as the Monitor Folder activity, can only have one job running at a given time.

To stop a job from Runbook Designer

  1. In Runbook Designer, click the Monitor Runbook tab.

  2. On the toolbar, click Stop.

To open the Orchestration console

  • In the Runbook Designer menu above the tool bar, click Orchestration Console.

To run runbooks

  1. In the Runbooks pane, double-click the New Runbooks folder so you can see the Monitor Runbook and Read Text File Runbook in the folder tree.

    In the Details pane, you should see Summary, Runbooks, Jobs, and Instances tabs.

  2. In the Details pane, select the Runbooks tab.

  3. In the bottom Runbooks pane, click Monitor Runbook or Read Text File Runbook.

  4. In the Actions pane, select Start Runbook.

  5. In the Start Runbook dialog box, go to Available Runbook Server(s) box and select the applicable server.

  6. Click the arrow button so that the server name is now in the Selected Runbook Servers(s) box.

  7. Click Start.

    If the runbook was run successfully, the Orchestration Console dialog box that opens will contain the following sentence.

                The operation was successfully completed.

  8. Click OK.

To view runbook details

  1. In the Runbooks pane, double-click the New Runbooks folder.

  2. In the Details pane, click the Runbooks tab.

  3. In the bottom Runbooks pane, click Monitor Runbook or Read Text File Runbook.

  4. To view all jobs that have been created with your runbooks, in the Actions pane, select View Jobs.

  5. To view all instances, in the Actions pane, select View Instances.

  6. To view the activities in the runbook, in the Actions pane, select View Definition.

To find events

  1. Left-click Start, point to All Programs, click Administrative Tools, and then click Event Viewer to open a session.

  2. On the Event Viewer menu, double-click Windows Logs, and then on the menu, click Application.

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