Ochestrator

A little which ago Robert Hearn (now sadly Ex-Microsoft) posted a really useful guide on how to use the Visual Studio debugger to verity your IP Code while it’s running. If you are spending anytime working in Visual Studio then I urge you to read Roberts post here as this is the basis of what I am going to add today. In the post Robert has shared, both his Development and Test is on the same box, which not always will be the case, and with the IPs we need to have some context for the debugging to work; therefore I normally will have a test box located remotely which has access to the resources which will finally be managed in the release version. Debugging in this configuration is what we will cover today – Remote Debugging Orchestrator Integration...

After downloading the new IP pack from the MS download center, the file is simply a compressed archive containing the 7 new Integration packs which we need to extract. Once extracted, a quick spin of the System Center Orchestrator Deployment Manager allows us to register these new IPs, which will take a few moments as each has its own EULA which needs to be accepted first. Next, job is to deploy these newly registered IPs to the servers and runbook editing workstations again using the deployment manager And now we are ready to investigate. This first thing to notice is that even though both the 2007 and 2012 versions of the packs my offer many of the same actions, the icons have being revised on the newer 2012 versions. as an example here are some simple Virtual...

These are the ones we have being waiting for, and today is the day the read carpet can be rolled right out. Microsoft have just deployed the RC of System Center Integration Packs for System Center 2012, adding four new Integration Packs to the five already included IPs. This download includes Integration Packs for the following System Center 2012 RC Components: System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager System Center 2012 Operations Manager System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager System Center 2012 Service Manager This download also includes Integration Packs for the following System Center product releases: System Center Operations Manager 2007 System Center Service Manager 2010 System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 System Center Data...

Installing some new Orchestrator 2012 RC servers, 2 of these started to exhibit a new error when attempting to access the Web Services URL. This of course has the knock on affect of rendering the Operator Console useless, as it relies on web services. Digging deeper, while I try to open the Web Service URL, the message returned is “Request Error”, with the string “The server encountered an error processing the request”; Illustrated in the Image below. The resolution for this is actually pretty simple, for some bazar reason the application pool which the installer associated with the web site is the “DefaultAppPool” rather than the newly created “System Center 2012 Orchestrator Web Features” which is designed for the job. The fix, just launch...

The latest build of the F5 IP is now up on Codeplex. This build has even more objects presented, and I have leveraged the excellent experience from Ryan (Thank You) to create the images library, so that we can get some Icons exposed to Orchestrator for each of the runbook objects. This build now supports both pools and virtual servers, with the ability to now add and remove members, assuming your connection to the F5 has the required permissions. In addition I have added code to detect if the connected Balancer is part of a cluster, and if you are connected to the standby node, then will disconnect you insisting that you work from the active node, otherwise there is no point in adding, removing or changing nodes! Grab the pack and give it whirl, but test before...

Shout out to Mr Charles Joy for this one, I have a few comments on the last series of posts for parameters in C# which has proved a slight challenge to get working for some of you. I promise to post the VS project as soon as i get the WordPress server fixed for hosting attachments. Added a small code edit below to represent the new ODATA URI in Orchestrator 2012 RC and newer builds (Line 160) However this next sample should address all the questions you might have, and also show off the solutions from a VB users perspective. Imports System.Net Imports System.IO Imports System.Text Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions Module Module1 Dim OrchestratorServer As String = "localhost" Dim JobGUID As String Dim ParamNames As New List(Of String) Dim...