Building a looping Runbook

As a looping Runbook, we understand a Runbook contains an activity that loops until a condition is met. As we have seen in our previous examples, each activity is running only one time. A looping activity runs as much as the condition changes.

Getting ready

In this example, we will build a simple reboot Runbook where we restart a server and wait until the server is going down and is coming up again, therefore we will need a looping activity.

Perform the following steps in the Runbook Designer to prepare for the activity steps in this recipe:

1. In the Runbook Designer, expand the connection to the SCO 2016 server.
2. Navigate to our created 1.2-Chapter 4 folder.
3. Create a new sub-folder called 1.2.2-Reboot a Server:

How to do it…

Follow the next steps to build a Reboot Runbook. Cause we are using the Initialize Data, your can use this Runbook to be called from other Runbooks, whenever you need to reboot a Server

1. Create a Runbook with the name 1.2.2-Reboot a Server under the same...