From time to time there is a need to list all instances of a specific activity type in Orchestrator. For example it is not recommended […]
How many instances of this activity do we have? And where are they?
Category: Orchestrator
Add a runboook activity from a runbook
Earlier this week I needed to add a runbook activity to a Service Request depending on the result from a review activity. I have written […]
Runbook PID
Yesterday I was investigating runbooks consuming much memory. We had a number of runbooks running Powershell scripts and we could see that the Runbook server […]
How-to handle monitoring activities in SMA
In Orchestrator we often use a monitoring activity in the beginning of a runbook, for example monitor Service Manager for new incidents. In SMA we […]
Building a SMA activity for Service Manager
Service Manager and Orchestrator are well connected with a connector. It is easy to use Orchestrator runbooks as activities in for example change requests and […]
Automate failover in SMA with Operations Manager
In this post I talked about hos failover in SMA works. As you could read in that post there is a manual step to transfer […]
State tracking and failover in SMA
As you might know a runbook restarts at the first activity when it fails over to secondary runbook server in Orchestrator. The failover mechanism is […]
Copy or rename a SMA runbook
You may have notice that in the Windows Azure portal there is no way to copy or rename a SMA runbook. But it is of […]
Logging in Service Management Automation (SMA)
In Service Management Automation (SMA) there are a couple of different ways to write to a log. In this blog post I will show you […]
Pass information between Orchestrator runbook and SMA runbook
Difficult to come up with a good blog post title, as Service Management Automation (SMA) is part of Orchestrator 2012 R2, so in some way […]