Activity

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The Activity entity represents an activity in an Orchestrator runbook. The Activities collection includes all of the activities in all the runbooks in the local Orchestrator environment.

Properties

The following table lists the properties of the Activity entity.

Relationships

The following table lists the entities that share a relationship with the Activity entity and the key property in each entity used to define the relationship.

Code Samples

Getting Activities using C#

The following code retrieves the activities from a particular runbook using C#. This example uses a service reference named SCOService and uses the credentials of the current user context. You can uncomment the line that specifies alternate credentials if the current user does not have appropriate permissions to the runbook being started. For more information see Programming in Visual Studio With the Orchestrator Web Service and Authentication and Authorization.

namespace CodeSample.Microsoft.SystemCenter.Orchestration.WebService
{
   using System;
   using System.Collections;
   using System.Collections.Generic;
   using System.Linq;
   using System.Text;
   using System.Net;
   using System.IO;
   using System.Data.Services.Client;
   using SCO.SCOService;   

   public class SingleRunbook
   {
      public static void Main()
      {
         Guid runbookId = new Guid("00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000");

         // Path to Orchestrator web service
         string serviceRoot = "http://server01.contoso.com:81/Orchestrator2012/Orchestrator.svc";

         // Create Orchestrator context
         SCOService.OrchestratorContext context = new SCOData.OrchestratorContext(new Uri(serviceRoot));

         // Set credentials to default or to a specific user.
         context.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
         //context.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("user", "pwd", "domain");

         // Retrieve the runbook
         Runbook runbook = context.Runbooks.Where(rbk => rbk.Id == runbookId).FirstOrDefault();

         // Retrieve activities 
         var runbookActivities = context.Activities.Where(runbookActivity => runbookActivity.RunbookId == runbookId);

         // Output runbook properties to console
         Console.WriteLine("Id: {0}", runbook.Id);
         Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}", runbook.Name);
         Console.WriteLine("IsMonitor: {0}", runbook.IsMonitor);
         Console.WriteLine("Activities:");

         // Output properties for each parameter to console
         foreach (var activity in runbookActivities)
         {
            Console.WriteLine("\t{0} {1} - {2}", activity.Id, activity.TypeName, activity.Name);
         }
      }
   }
}

Getting Jobs using Windows PowerShell

The following code retrieves the activities from a particular runbook using Windows PowerShell. The example uses the credentials of the current user context. You can uncomment the line that specifies alternate credentials if the current user does not have appropriate permissions to the runbook being started. For more information see Authentication and Authorization.

# Details of the runbook we want to get
$runbookId = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"

# Create the request object
$url = -join ("http://server01.contoso.com:81/Orchestrator2012/Orchestrator.svc/","Runbooks(guid'",$runbookId.ToString(),"')/Activities")
$request = [System.Net.HttpWebRequest]::Create($url)

# Set the credentials to default or prompt for credentials
$request.UseDefaultCredentials = $true
# $request.Credentials = Get-Credential

# Build the request header
$request.Method = "GET"
$request.UserAgent = "Microsoft ADO.NET Data Services"

# Get the response from the request
[System.Net.HttpWebResponse] $response = [System.Net.HttpWebResponse] $Request.GetResponse()

# Write the HttpWebResponse to String
$reader = [IO.StreamReader] $response.GetResponseStream()  
$output = $reader.ReadToEnd()  
[xml]$output = $output
$reader.Close()

# Output properties of each activity
foreach ($activity in $output.feed.entry)
{
    Write-Host "Name: " $activity.content.properties.Name
    Write-Host "TypeName: " $activity.content.properties.TypeName
}

See Also

Concepts

Programming Using the Orchestrator Web Service
OData Queries Using the Orchestrator Web Service
Authentication and Authorization