Runbook Management Integration Pack for System Center Orchestrator
Give Microsoft System Center Orchestrator the ability to manage, monitor, and control its own runbooks with a purpose-built Kelverion Integration Pack.
The Runbook Management Integration Pack is a Microsoft System Center Orchestrator Integration Pack designed to help Orchestrator manage itself. It provides ready-to-use activities that allow automation teams to trigger, track, monitor, and control runbook execution as part of wider IT process automation.
With this Integration Pack, customers can build runbooks that respond to Orchestrator events, identify running or failed jobs, start dependent automation, stop specific runbook jobs, and create operational control loops that improve automation availability and service-level performance.
Typical Automation Scenarios
- Runbook Health Monitoring
Monitor Orchestrator events and runbook job status to detect stopped, failed, or long-running automation - Automated Recovery
Restart important runbooks automatically when defined conditions are met - Controlled Runbook Shutdown
Stop selected runbook jobs during maintenance windows, change freezes, or incident response - Dependency Orchestration
Start follow-on runbooks when prerequisite jobs complete or when operational events occur - Operational Reporting
Retrieve runbook and job information to support reporting, audit, and service management processes - Self-Managing Automation
Build supervisory runbooks that oversee the health and behaviour of other runbooks in the environment
Benefits at a Glance
- Improve Runbook Reliability
Monitor runbook jobs and events so automation teams can detect issues quickly and respond before they affect service delivery - Reduce Scripting Dependency
Use Orchestrator activities instead of maintaining external scripts for common runbook management tasks - Recover Automation Faster
Build automated recovery logic that restarts critical runbooks or stops problematic jobs when required - Increase Operational Control
Start, stop, query, and monitor runbooks from within structured Orchestrator workflows - Simplify Administration
Configure activities using friendly names and filters, making runbook management easier for administrators and developers - Support Service-Level Goals
Safeguard the running state of automation solutions and reduce the operational impact of stopped or failed runbooks
Key Capabilities
- Retrieve event information from the Orchestrator event log
- Retrieve runbook information using defined filter criteria
- Retrieve runbook job information, including job ID and job status
- Start specified runbooks from within Orchestrator workflows
- Stop specified runbook jobs when required
- Monitor Orchestrator events using configurable criteria
- Address runbooks by name to simplify configuration and reduce administrative complexity
Integration Activities
| Activity Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Get-Events | Retrieve infomation about the Orchestrator platform events in the environment |
| Get-Runbooks | Retrieve infomation about the runbooks in the environment |
| Get-RunbookJobs | Retrieve job infomation |
| Monitor-Events | Monitor Orchestrator platform events |
| Start-Runbook | Start a runbook job |
| Stop-RunbookJob | Stop a runbook job |