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Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook

By : Chiyo Odika
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Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook

By: Chiyo Odika

Overview of this book

Microsoft Operations Management Suite Cookbook begins with an overview of how to hit the ground running with OMS insights and analytics. Next, you will learn to search and analyze data to retrieve actionable insights, review alert generation from the analyzed data, and use basic and advanced Log search queries in Azure Log Analytics. Following this, you will explore some other management solutions that provide functionality related to workload assessment, application dependency mapping, automation and configuration management, and security and compliance. You will also become well versed with the data protection and recovery functionalities of OMS Protection and Recovery, and learn how to use Azure Automation components and features in OMS. Finally you will learn how to evaluate key considerations for using the Security and Audit solution, and working with Security and Compliance in OMS. By the end of the book, you will be able to configure and utilize solution offerings in OMS, understand OMS workflows, how to unlock insights, integrate capabilities into new or existing workflows, manage configurations, and automate tasks and processes.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Working with OMS Automation and Control solutions

As part of the Automation and Control service offerings, Azure Automation provides update management, assessment, and deployment for remediation and change tracking features. These features are available through the Update management and Change tracking automation solutions in Log Analytics and are also visible in the Azure Automation account:

  • Update management: This solution identifies missing system updates and orchestrates installation of these updates across Windows and Linux servers, both in your data center and in any public cloud. The Update management solution supports both update assessments using automation and update deployments on supported operating systems.
  • Change tracking: This solution enables you to troubleshoot operational and other issues by identifying and tracking changes in your environment. The solution...