SCOrch – Powershell to start Runbook – Part 2

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Here is an example to start a Runbook w/ parameters from Powershell.  It’s pretty much the same exact as a standard POST to start a Runbook, but also includes the parameters in the properties struct.

I’ve found that the free program Fiddler helps to find the guids and struct needed to build the POST.  You can also use the Orchestration Console to drill down through to the Instance Summary and Activity Details to find the guids for each parameter.

This is the parameters struct that is added to the regular POST.

Parameter1/Parameter2 are the names that you give the parameter.

You need to specify the guid for each parameter.

Value1/Value2 are the input values you’d like to specify for the Initialize Data activity.

<d:Parameters>&lt;Data&gt;&lt;Parameter&gt;&lt;Name&gt;Parameter1&lt;/Name&gt;&lt;ID&gt;{10000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}&lt;/ID&gt;&lt;Value&gt;Value1&lt;/Value&gt;&lt;/Parameter&gt;&lt;Parameter&gt;&lt;Name&gt;Parameter2&lt;/Name&gt;&lt;ID&gt;{20000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}&lt;/ID&gt;&lt;Value&gt;Value2&lt;/Value&gt;&lt;/Parameter&gt;&lt;/Data&gt;</d:Parameters>

Here is the complete script to include the parameters in the POST to start the Runbook.  The fields in red would need updated to your environment.

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$creds = Get-Credential(“domain\username”)

$url = “http://scorch.domain:81/Orchestrator2012/Orchestrator.svc/Jobs/“

$request = [System.Net.HttpWebRequest]::Create($url)

$request.Credentials = $creds

$request.Timeout = 60000

$request.Accept = “application/atom+xml,application/xml”

$request.Headers.Add(“Accept-Charset”, “UTF-8″)

$request.ContentType = “application/atom+xml”

$request.Method = “POST”

$requestBody = ‘<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″ standalone=”yes”?>

<entry xmlns:d=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices” xmlns:m=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom“>

<content type=”application/xml”>

<m:properties>

<d:Parameters>&lt;Data&gt;&lt;Parameter&gt;&lt;Name&gt;Parameter1&lt;/Name&gt;&lt;ID&gt;{10000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}&lt;/ID&gt;&lt;Value&gt;Value1&lt;/Value&gt;&lt;/Parameter&gt;&lt;Parameter&gt;&lt;Name&gt;Parameter2&lt;/Name&gt;&lt;ID&gt;{20000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}&lt;/ID&gt;&lt;Value&gt;Value2&lt;/Value&gt;&lt;/Parameter&gt;&lt;/Data&gt;</d:Parameters>

<d:RunbookId type=”Edm.Guid”>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</d:RunbookId>

</m:properties>

</content>

</entry>

‘

$requeststream=new-object System.IO.StreamWriter $request.GetRequestStream()

$requeststream.Write($requestBody)

$requeststream.Flush()

$requeststream.Close()

$response=$request.GetResponse()

$requestStream=$response.GetResponseStream()

$readStream=new-object System.IO.StreamReader $requestStream

$Output=$readStream.ReadToEnd()

$readStream.Close()

$response.Close()

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