Runbook Surveyor for Microsoft System Center Orchestrator
Bring clarity, control and confidence to your Microsoft System Center Orchestrator environment with Kelverion Runbook Surveyor.
Kelverion Runbook Surveyor is a documentation tool for Microsoft System Center Orchestrator runbooks. Instead of manually taking screenshots, copying configuration settings and trying to maintain separate documentation, teams can document their Orchestrator solutions directly from the Orchestrator environment.
The application automatically generates a series of Microsoft Visio diagrams and a Microsoft Word document that show how runbooks are built, how activities are configured and how each runbook connects to other runbooks. The result is a clear, consistent and shareable record of your automation estate.
Typical Automation Scenarios
- Runbook Documentation and Review
Generate diagrams and Word documents for existing Orchestrator runbooks before upgrades, audits or optimisation projects - Change Impact Assessment
Understand how runbooks connect before making changes to shared activities, dependencies or downstream processes - Service Request Automation
Parse request data, transform user input and standardise values before provisioning accounts, access or services - Monitoring and Remediation
Extract key details from alerts, event text or monitoring payloads and route remediation based on structured values - Ticket Enrichment and Routing
Format, compare and manipulate text from service management tools to create more consistent incident, change or request records - Operational Handover
Provide support teams, project teams and managed service partners with reliable documentation of production automation
Benefits at a Glance
- Reduce Manual Documentation Effort
Replace time-consuming screenshots and manual configuration notes with automatically generated runbook documentation - Improve Governance and Audit Readiness
Maintain a clear record of automation workflows, activity settings and runbook relationships - Accelerate Troubleshooting
Give support teams a documented view of how runbooks are configured and connected so issues can be understood faster - Support Change Control
Use consistent documentation to review proposed changes, validate current-state automation and improve handover between teams - Strengthen Automation Quality
Combine clear runbook documentation with reliable text manipulation activities to reduce brittle scripting and improve data consistency - Protect Operational Knowledge
Capture how automation works before knowledge is lost through staff changes, project transitions or undocumented updates
Key Capabilities
- Automatically documents Orchestrator runbooks from the Orchestrator environment
- Creates Microsoft Visio diagrams that visualise runbook design and relationships
- Generates Microsoft Word documentation covering runbook applications and configuration detail
- Shows how runbooks are configured and connected to other runbooks
- Supports better governance, operational support, change management and audit preparation
- Provides reusable text manipulation activities for splitting, joining, comparing, extracting, replacing, trimming, encoding and regular expression processing
- Helps reduce custom scripting and simplify data handling across Orchestrator automation workflows
Integration Activities
| Activity Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Create-Diagram | Create a Viseo diagram for each runbook |
| Word-Document | Produces a word document with the runbook configurtion for each activity |