Runbook Concepts

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator

The power of System Center 2012 - Orchestrator lies in providing runbooks and the individual activities that make up a runbook. Runbooks contain the instructions for an automated task or process. The individual steps throughout a runbook are called activities. Within the runbook, additional controls provide information and instructions to control the sequence of activities in the runbook. Runbooks, activities, and each runbook control have configurable properties. You modify these properties to configure the behavior that your runbook requires.

The topics in this section provide detailed information about the attributes and features related to runbooks.

• Runbooks

  Provides configuration information for runbooks.

• Activities

  Describes categories of activities and their attributes.

• Workflow Control

  Describes tools to manage a runbook.

• TechNet Library main page for Orchestrator

• Using Runbooks in System Center 2012 - Orchestrator

• Tools

• Design and Build Runbooks

• Deploy and Start Runbooks

• Runbook Samples