Today’s IT professional is charged with a multitude of wide-ranging responsibilities, including system administration, updates, user account management, compliance checks, and many more tasks involved in keeping systems sound, secure, and up-to-date.  Run Book Automation (RBA) offers tools and techniques to address all of these duties, and helps to bring multiple systems and solutions together within a single, consistent, and coherent set of activities that can be automated, scheduled, tracked, and handled with much less muss and fuss.  

In The Shortcut Guide to Run Book Automation, author Ed Tittel shows you how to use RBA to automate repetitive or regular tasks by creating basic task building blocks, dragging and dropping icons into a workflow, and supplying direction as needed.  By offering a set of common use cases as well as a list of best practices for implementing RBA, Tittel gives you the practical know-how to define, create, orchestrate, and manage workflows that support many of your organization’s operational processes.

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