Activities

Updated: May 13, 2016

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

In System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, activities are the building blocks of runbooks. In general, individual activities perform three actions:

• Access Published Data

• Perform some action

• Publish new data

All activities, regardless of origin or type, share common behaviors. This section describes the types of activities available in Orchestrator and their common behaviors.

• Standard Activities

  Describes standard activities available in Orchestrator.

• Monitoring Activities

  Describes specialized activities that monitor environment states and event logs.

• Customized Activities

  Describes customization options available in Orchestrator.

• Common Activity Properties

  Describes configurable properties common to all activities.

• TechNet Library main page for Orchestrator

• Using Runbooks in System Center 2012 - Orchestrator

• Runbook Concepts

• Runbooks

• Workflow Control