Run Book Automation: What you Need to Know For IT Operations Management

Run Book Automation (RBA) is the ability to define, build, orchestrate, manage and report on workflows that support system and network operational processes. A run book process can cross all management disciplines and interact with all types of infrastructure elements, such as applications, databases and hardware.According to Gartner, the growth of RBA has coincided with the need for IT operations executives to deliver and prove higher IT operations efficiencies including reducing mean time to repair (MTTR), increasing mean time between failures (MTBF) and automating the provisioning of IT resources. In addition, it is necessary to have the mechanisms to implement best practices (for example, implement and manage IT operations processes in line with IT Infrastructure Library ITIL), increase IT personnel effectiveness (for example, automate repetitive tasks associated with IT operations process) and have the tools to fully report on how the processes are executed in line with established policies and service levels.This book is your ultimate resource for Run book Automation. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Run book Automation right away, covering: Run Book Automation, Opsware, BMC Software, Maximo (MRO), Automation, Customer support, ActiveVOS, Advanced Authoring Format, BioExtract, Bizagi, Bonita Open Solution, BPEL script, BPEL4People, Business Process Execution Language, Business Process Modeling Language, CA IT Process Automation Manager, CapExBio, Comparison of BPEL engines, Database publishing, Discovery Net, Document automation, Epoq Group, Flow Description Markup Language, Forefront Identity Manager, GNU Enterprise, Healthcare workflow, JBPM, Jbpm5, Kepler scientific workflow system, LONI Pipeline, Marvin L. Manheim Award For Significant Contributions in the Field of Workflow, Marvin Manheim, Neural Workflow, NexusBPM, Parasoft Concerto, Project workforce management, RetroGuide, SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, Scientific workflow system, Taverna workbench, Tryton, Variable data publishing, VisTrails, Wf-XML, Workflow, Workflow application, Workflow engine, Workflow Management Coalition, Workflow Reference Model, Workflow technology, WS-CDL, XPDL, Zenon Software, Manumation, Adjustable-speed drive, Air conditioner, Air conditioning, Auto-defrost, Automated attendant, Automated teller machine, Automatic meter reading, Automaton, Bristol Standard Asynchronous Protocol, CAN Kingdom, Computer appliance, Console automation, Control system, Controller (control theory), Controller area network, DC injection braking, DF-1 Protocol, DirectNET Protocol, Distributed control system, Door closer, Electric gates, Electronic speed control, EnOcean, Ethernet Global Data Protocol, Ethernet Powerlink, FANUC Robotics America Corporation, Feedforward Control, Filling Carousel, Flexlink, FOUNDATION fieldbus, Foundation Fieldbus H1, Garage door opener, General Motion Control, GRAITEC, GRAITEC Advance, GrayStone Industries, Heidenhain, Highway Addressable Remote Transducer Protocol,Leonard W. Moore, Linear motor, List of automation protocols, Logistics automation, LPA512, Macro recorder, Manual override, Manufacturing Automation Protocol, MECHATROLINK, MelsecNet, MetraLabs GmbH ...and much more.This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Run book Automation. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Run book Automation with the objectivity of experienced IT professionals.