
Aug 07, 2014
In my opinion, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator is the ultimate automation tool in the System Center stack. More specifically, in today’s article, I will go through how to use the Runbook Tester to test the run books we have created. The Runbook Tester is a built-in tool that you can use to check your runbooks and progress of the runbook in different steps in a debugging environment. This comes with separate error reporting at different steps and will help you to troubleshoot the information flow and automation process in different stages. So, for an example, if you build a new run book, you can test the run book and easily debug each step or activity on entire run book before it runs live. More importantly, the Runbook Tester works with the currently logged in user credentials, not with the service accounts. I recommend that you run the Runbook Tester as the administrator for best practice.How to use the Runbook Tester
- In order to use the tester, you will need to ‘Check In’ the Runbook.
- Then click on the ‘Runbook Tester’ tool as below.
- When you click the ‘Run Book Tester’ from the tool bar it will load the ‘Run Book.’ You’ll notice that there are 5 sections that make up the Run Book Tester interface: Run Time Properties, Design Time Properties, Workspace, Log, and Resource Browser.
- In the ‘Runbook,’ you can then select either the ‘Run’ option or the ‘Step Through’ option.
- ‘Run’ option – this executes all run book steps consecutively, one after another.
- ‘Step Through’ option – this executes a step and waits for your instructions before proceeding to the next step.
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