Cireson is in Town and we got Travis Wright to hold a Session for MTUG OSLO.
This is going to be a great session on the following topics:
- System Center Service Manager
- Orchestrator (SMA)
- Powershell
- Azure
Thursday, November 28, 2013
MTUG: Presents Travis Wright - Automating datacenters and client management
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Orchestrator: Problems with access to the Orchestrator Console after SP1 Upgrade?
Well.. Orchestrator SP1 has been around the block for a while now and I came across a weird thing the other day.
The customer had a problem with the Orchestrator console in their Runbook environment and got this message when trying to access the web console remote.
So I logged on to the Webservice Server (locally) and tested again..
Still no go...
It seemed like I did not have access to the directories. So I opened the IIS console and selected the
"Microsoft system center 2012 Orchetsrator Web service" site and selected [basic settings].
In the "Edit Site" I tested the settings to check that the results was valid.
The Test Connection failed on the Authorization, and saying that the account used could not access the installation directory. (Strange because my installation account has full permissions on the path).
Back in the edit Site again I could see that the "Microsoft system center 2012 Orchestrator Web service" site was linked to the DefaultAppPool and not the system Center Orchestrator Web Feature pool. (installed during installation).
So I changed it back to the right Application Pool and did the test.
Now the result was valid for both the tests.
On a remote computer I opened up the Orchestrator Web Console and it worked perfect again.
The customer had a problem with the Orchestrator console in their Runbook environment and got this message when trying to access the web console remote.
So I logged on to the Webservice Server (locally) and tested again..
Still no go...
It seemed like I did not have access to the directories. So I opened the IIS console and selected the
"Microsoft system center 2012 Orchetsrator Web service" site and selected [basic settings].
In the "Edit Site" I tested the settings to check that the results was valid.
Back in the edit Site again I could see that the "Microsoft system center 2012 Orchestrator Web service" site was linked to the DefaultAppPool and not the system Center Orchestrator Web Feature pool. (installed during installation).
So I changed it back to the right Application Pool and did the test.
Now the result was valid for both the tests.
On a remote computer I opened up the Orchestrator Web Console and it worked perfect again.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Orchestrator: Search for Text in a textfile with Regluar Expressions
Well I had a case the other day where I need to search for a username in a textfile and add the username as affected user in Service Manager. So I started to work on my plan on how to make this dynamic and bulletproof.
Here is a snip of the textfile:
The line that I am looking for is "Affected User: u2121" and my goal is to get only the u2121 id everytime the activity is run in different text files.
So how can I do this? Well then I remembered Regular expressions. What did Technet say on that subject again?
Regular expressions let you match a string to a pattern. The regular expression can contain a number of different elements that define the pattern.
Hmm... Pattern.. Interesting.. I know that all ID here start with a U and a chain of number like
u2121,u3434,u1414,u3535 and so on... So regular expressions it is
Affected user: u2121 was the text in the textfile. If the ID would have the following pattern in every textfile searched we can use a regular expression.
In the Search text I added u[1-9]+ and selected "Use regular expressions".
Then I did a test, and the matched text showed the ID in the textfile, Nice!.
So let's look at the text I searched for again. Well all ID started with a u then that would be my first search query. (Simple ;)
Then I know that the rest is numbers between 1-9. So I added [1-9] which means all between 1 and 9.
But the number of characters on the ID's was sometimes 4,5,6. so I added the + to the end to match all of them. Now it will find the ID either it is with 4,5,6 characters.
This was a quick intro in this and there are plenty of combinations to use. Check it out!
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh440535.aspx
Here is a snip of the textfile:
The line that I am looking for is "Affected User: u2121" and my goal is to get only the u2121 id everytime the activity is run in different text files.
So how can I do this? Well then I remembered Regular expressions. What did Technet say on that subject again?
Regular expressions let you match a string to a pattern. The regular expression can contain a number of different elements that define the pattern.
Hmm... Pattern.. Interesting.. I know that all ID here start with a U and a chain of number like
u2121,u3434,u1414,u3535 and so on... So regular expressions it is
Affected user: u2121 was the text in the textfile. If the ID would have the following pattern in every textfile searched we can use a regular expression.
In the Search text I added u[1-9]+ and selected "Use regular expressions".
Then I did a test, and the matched text showed the ID in the textfile, Nice!.
So let's look at the text I searched for again. Well all ID started with a u then that would be my first search query. (Simple ;)
Then I know that the rest is numbers between 1-9. So I added [1-9] which means all between 1 and 9.
But the number of characters on the ID's was sometimes 4,5,6. so I added the + to the end to match all of them. Now it will find the ID either it is with 4,5,6 characters.
This was a quick intro in this and there are plenty of combinations to use. Check it out!
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh440535.aspx
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