SCOM – Activating maintenance mode for a server

The System Center Operations Manager Integration Pack for Orchestrator 2016 is limited to its activities. One of the most used task for SCOM will be to set a server in maintenance mode. This activity does exists, but is not really easy to use, so let's create a Runbook for it.

Getting ready

In this Runbook, we need to use some variables, so navigate to Global Settings\Variables\Root, and create two variables as you see in the following table:

Name	Description	Value
SCOM Service User Passwords	This contains the Service User Password	*****
SCOM Service User Usernames	This contains the Service User Username	*Domain*\*Username*
SCOM Servername s(FQDN)	This contains your SCOM Servername	*server.doamin.lcoal*

To get ready for our next Runbook, we need to create a new Folder and a new Runbook in the Runbook Designer:

1. In the Runbook Designer, expand the connection to the SCO 2016 server.
2. Navigate to Root\0.1-Cookbook\1.3-Chapter 5, and create a new folder called 1...