Information Technology Reference
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APP CONTROLLER
You can learn more about App Controller at
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/
Orchestrator
Orchestrator provides a drag-and-drop interface, allowing you to build complicated auto-
mation runbooks. A runbook is a branching automation workflow. You create runbooks by
connecting together Orchestrator tasks. Integration packs are collections of tasks. Microsoft
provides integration packs for each of the System Center products. Using the tasks contained
within these integration packs, you can build complicated runbooks that enact intricate tasks.
For example, you could create a runbook that deploys a VM from a template using VMM in
response to an alert raised in Operations Manager, and then configures protection for that
VM using Data Protection Manager. You use Orchestrator runbooks to automate activities in
a private cloud deployment.
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ORCHESTRATOR
You can learn more about Orchestrator at
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh237242.aspx
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Operations Manager
Operations Manager allows you to monitor the performance and availability of private cloud
elements, from being able to monitor individual virtualization hosts, through to monitoring
specific virtual machines, and applications that run on those virtual machines and within the
private cloud. Operations Manager supports automatic remediation of some problems. You
can enhance the capability of Operations Manager by importing product-specific manage-
ment packs.
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OPERATIONS MANAGER
You can learn more about Operations Manager at
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/
Service Manager
Service Manager is a service management product that you can use to manage incidents and
problems in a manner consistent with ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) or
MOF (Microsoft Operations Framework) practices. You can configure Service Manager with
connectors to Operations Manager.
