System Center Orchestrator Health Checker

It is very important to take care of your System Center Orchestrator Environment. I have introduced multiple ways to do this, bit one very important one is the Free Tool called, Orchestrator Health Checker.

This tool is providing you a lot of options to control and monitor your Orchestrator Environment.

First, you have to download and configure the Orchestrator Health Checker, Install and Configure Instructions are also included at the Download Page here: Seidlm/SCO-Health-Checker: Not my Product, just to provide a Download to everyone (github.com)

Overview

After starting the Tool, you should see something like this

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At the Front, you will see an overview of your runbook, which are running, also the Count of running and queued Runbooks.

Don’t forget to check the “Auto-Update” Checkbox.

We will not explain each Function of the Orchestrator Health Checker, but some important ones, i think.

Log Purge check

The Log Purge is a very important Feature to keep your Orchestrator Database healthy, so it is also very important to monitor the Health Check.

To do this, go to OPTIONS / LOG PURGE TREND, and here you will see the last few days of the Log Purge Job, Duration, and Result

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if this does not look similar at your Orchestrator, check the Log Purge Settings in the Orchestrator Designer.

There are a lot more Options with the Health checker, just install the Tool and give it a try.

Added 03.01.2020

See my Configuration, changed the DB and Web Service Server.

Michael Seidl aka Techguy

12 thoughts on “System Center Orchestrator Health Checker”

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  2. The message is cut off during posting. Here is my config and setup
    SERVER – ORCH
    SQL INSTANCE – ORCH
    PORT – 1433

  3. For some reason, I am not able to share the error message. It keeps cutting off. Let me try again.

    My Home lab setup is
    Server – ORCH
    SQL Instance – ORCH
    Port – 1433
    http://ORCH:81

    What exactly,I need to change within the Config file from the download?

    Thanks

    Ram

  4. Hi Michael,

    It seems Microsoft Gallery is retired and so is the contents uploaded to them are gone including the Orchestrator Health checker. By any chance do you have a copy of this tool you can share over Github or a OneDrive or Google drive link ?

    Thanks,
    Gautam

  5. Hi Michael,

    I know this is an old blog now but we are currently trying to purge out logs where it has been failing. Having come across some other posts, the designer for us doesn’t seem to clear everything and even 1 days worth is resulting in everything crashing and ultimately failing so once I am back up to the magic 30 days, we will need to trigger this with a SQL job where we can run it more frequently.

    Should this tool capture the procedure run manually, or does it just show jobs triggered by the designer, as I am noticing when I run it, it shows “No Info” . So I am guessing that it is capturing them but when run manually, there is information not being stamped for the started/ended/duration/status?

    Thanks

    Andrew

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