Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen
System Center Orchestrator
Service Management Automation
Introduction
@JakobGSvendsen
http://blog.coretech.dk/jgs/
Who am I
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Chief Developer / Consultant / Trainer
Coretech A/S, System Center Gold Partner
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Titles
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Orchestrator / Service Management Automation / Windows Azure
Pack
Extensions for System Center (PS,VB.NET,C#.NET)
Communities
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System Center Cloud and Data Center Management MVP
Member of the System Center Influencers Team
Areas
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Offices in
Co-Founder of the Danish PowerShell User Group (www.psug.dk)
Author / Training
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Service Manager 2012 Unleashed (contributing author – Released
October 2014)
Mastering System Center Orchestrator 2012 – 3 day workshop
Service Management Automation - 3 day Workshop (New!)
Introduction
Service Delivery stack
Core
Virtual Machine Manager
Fabric, library & cloud management
PaaS
Websites
IaaS
Virtual
machines
PaaS
IaaS
AzureService
Pack Network
PaaS
Database
bus
Operations Manager
Infrastructure & application
monitoring, alerting & usage
Service Manager
IT service management &
request authoring
Resource
clouds
Automation
Billing
Tenant
Hosting
management plan
Orchestrator
Integration & automation of key
technologies & processes with
SMA & Service Manager
Data Protection Manager
Hardware
Continuous protection of key
applications & workloads
Service Management Automation (SMA)
• System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator adds support for
PowerShell Workflows through the SMA feature
• Browser-based runbook authoring integrated into the Azure Pack Portal
• Supports requirements for scale and high availability
• Import PS modules and create additional modules and runbooks
• Check out the Building Clouds Blog for an Introduction to SMA
http://aka.ms/IntroToSMA
Demo
First runbook
Portal
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Centralized library for all Automation
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Create runbooks within portal
Call existing runbooks in library
Manage Assets
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Modules
Variables (standard and encrypted)
Credentials (PowerShell Credentials and Certificates)
Certificates
Connections
Test
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Run runbook and see results within authoring window
Troubleshoot issues
Publish
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Edit draft before publishing
Demo
Assets + Schedules
SMA : Architecture and Installation
Service Management Portal
Service Management Portal
Http Response
• Authoring
• Debugging
• Operating
Http Request
Runbook Workers
ODATA REST Web
Service
Return results
• Runbook service
• PowerShell Modules
Web Service
SQL
Database
Runbook Workers
•REST oData web service
•Authorizes users
SMA Database
Submit requests
Runbooks
Pick up Jobs
Jobs
Persist State
Modules & Activies
•Runbooks
•Runbook Resources
•Tracks runbook job state
SMA : Installation
Minimum Setup
WAP Database
WAP
Admin API
Admin Portal
Admin Auth
Orchestrator/SMA
Web Service
Runbook Worker
Powershell Module
SMA Database
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn296433.aspx
SMA Advantages Over Classic Orchestrator
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64-bit support
Native PowerShell execution and PowerShell 3+ support
Checkpoint/Resume inside runbooks
Runbook servers architecture is more scalable
Save/Test drafts
Schedule runbooks
Parallel processing inside runbooks
• Text authoring vs. Visual Designer
Demo
Check Points
Tools
SMA : Runbook Authoring Tools
• Azure Pack Portal
• PowerShell ISE
– Emulated Automation Activities
– Get it at TechNet Gallery: Joe Levy
• SMA Studio 2014
– FREE! – Open Source
– http://www.sekurbit.se/
SMA : Other Tools – Import / Export
• SMA Toolkit
• Visualization and Dependency Mapping Tool
• Import and Export Tool
• Import complete folders + other options
• Documentation and Conversion Helper Tool
• For Classic Orchestrator
• SMART for Runbook Import and Export
http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2014/09/23/updated-sma-runbook-toolkit-smart-download-with-new-visualization-and-dependency-mappingtool.aspx
Demo
Logging / Progress
SMA with Orchestrator
Integration into each other
via PowerShell modules
Interoperability
Orchestrator Roadmap
Today: Orchestrator and Automation
Orchestrator for Datacenter
Azure Automation, SMA and Azure Pack
User Interface
• Standalone Management Console
• Access Permissions (RBAC)
User Interface
• Web portal
Authoring
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Graphical, forms-based authoring of runbooks
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Visualize end-to-end orchestration
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Testing console to validate end to end process
Authoring
• PowerShell Authoring
• Service Administrator can create runbooks to automate all aspects of cloud
infrastructure, plan delivery, and maintenance activities
Runbook Engine
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Highly available
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Custom workflow engine
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Databus to easily pass information between activities
Runbook Engine
• Highly available
• PowerShell Workflow based engine
Integration
• Integration packs for Microsoft and 3rd party systems
• Orchestrator toolkit to extend into custom systems
Integration
• PowerShell Module based integration
• Use existing PowerShell modules for Microsoft and 3rd party systems
• Create PowerShell modules for additional resources/systems
New Web portal
• Based on the new Azure Portal
• Role Based Access Control
– Grant permissions to Automation resources
Graphical Authoring
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Visual Process
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Design your end to end processes using a visual experience
Share easily with co-workers responsible for different parts of the process
Document end to end process based on visual representation
Data Bus
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Subscribe to previous activities published data at design time
Publish results to data bus during runtime.
Authoring
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Create runbooks using forms based authoring
Easily identify where the process failed for enhanced debugging
Managing Runbooks & Jobs
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Dashboard View
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View runbook jobs over time
Find jobs that may need attention
Runbooks View
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Filtering of jobs based on status and date
Identify authoring state (New, In edit, Published)
Filter by tags to group related runbooks
Jobs View
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History of jobs per runbook
Who last updated and when
Input parameters and output
Drill into each job to view streams generated to help troubleshooting
Stop, Suspend and Resume job
Consistent Runbooks / Assets / API
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Runbooks
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Runbooks can be moved between Azure & On premises
Export & Import without changing PowerShell script
API / PowerShell Module
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Consistent API so you can automate runbooks in Azure
& on premises the same way
Azure module for Automation to work against Azure
and on premises
Gallery
• Content
– Bring in Runbooks, PowerShell scripts, workflows and modules from
Microsoft & community locations.
• Integrated Experience
– Customers can find and import content from within portal
experience
• Ecosystem
– Customers can contribute runbooks and modules to community
Coming: Orchestrator and Automation
One Automation Solution for Azure and On Premises
User Interface
• Web portal
• Access Permissions (RBAC)
Authoring
• Graphical Authoring
• PowerShell Authoring
• Visualize end-to-end orchestration
• Gallery
• Service Administrator can create runbooks to automate all aspects of cloud infrastructure, plan delivery, and
maintenance activities
Runbook Engine
• Highly available
• PowerShell Workflow based engine
Integration
• PowerShell Module based integration
• Use existing PowerShell modules for Microsoft and 3rd party systems
• Create PowerShell modules for additional resources/systems
Tools
• Tools to convert SCO Integration Packs and runbooks
Orchestrator Investments move forward
• Integration packs
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Migration tool to convert Orchestrator Integration packs to PowerShell
modules
Write PowerShell module for built in Orchestrator activities
• Runbooks
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Migration tool to export runbooks from Orchestrator and import into new
system
Some fix up of runbooks required for things not directly supported
• Service Manager connector
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New SM connector to allow it to work with the new Orchestrator solution.
Update existing SM processes to use new connector
Orchestrator Roadmap
•Orchestrator for traditional datacenter Automation
System Center •Heterogeneous support with Integration Packs
2012 / SP1
•Updated Orchestrator with additional integration packs and customer feedback
System Center •Released Service Management Automation for the Azure Pack
2012 R2
Azure
Automation
vNext
•Released Automation in Azure (Generally available now)
•Multi-tenant solution for Azure operational tasks
•Single Automation solution for cloud and datacenter automation
•Graphical authoring
•Consistent solution delivered in Azure and on premises
•Convert non-PowerShell-based runbooks to PowerShell Workflow runbooks. Convert integration packs to PowerShell modules
Demo
Automate Everything!
SMA Sessions at NIC 2015
Thursday
• PowerShell Workflows: Prepare yourself for SMA and Azure Automation
– 10:00 - 11:00 - Room 1 - Aleksandar Nikolic
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System Center - Service Management Automation - Introduction
– 11:20 - 12:20 - Room 1 - Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen
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SMA - real-life experiences and troubleshooting
– 13:20 - 14:20 - Room 1 - David O'Brien & Trond Hindenes
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Automating DevOps between SCSM and TFS using SMA
– 14:40 - 15:40 - Room 6 - Travis Wright
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System Center - Service Management Automation – Automating System Center 2012 R2
– 16:00 - 17:00 - Room 1 - Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen
Friday
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Hangovers (and other subjects like SCSM in the cloud!)
Links
• My Blog
http://blog.coretech.dk/jgs
• Building Clouds Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/
• Tips & Tricks Wiki – Ryan Andorfer
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/26616.quick-tipsand-tricks-for-runbook-writing.aspx