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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)

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Microsoft Operations Management Suite, provides an overview of OMS and its underlying services and shows you how to onboard to OMS services.

Chapter 2, Searching and Analyzing OMS Data, shows you how to review, search, and analyze collected data using the powerful new Azure Log Analytics query language.

Chapter 3, Managing Alerts in OMS, shows you how to use OMS for alert and event management and view and correlate alerts from various connected sources, such as SCOM, Nagios, and Zabbix. You will also learn how to use and configure alert actions in Log Analytics.

Chapter 4, Protecting and Recovering Data with OMS, provides an overview of the data protection and recovery capabilities of OMS and shows you how to leverage the various features of Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery (ASR) as part of your disaster recovery and business continuity strategy.

Chapter 5, Configuration Management and Automation with OMS, shows you how to leverage the Azure Automation capabilities for inventory and change tracking, update management, process automation, and desired state configuration.

Chapter 6, Working with Security and Compliance in OMS, provides an overview of the Security and Compliance service in OMS and shows you how to assess your security state across various security domains, audit security-related events across your environment, identify and remediate security gaps within your environment, and remain compliant with various security standards.

Chapter 7, Using Wire Data 2.0 and Service Map, shows you how to unlock insights into your network traffic and understand how application components relate to one another and any network dependencies.

Chapter 8, Exploring Other Management Solutions, provides an overview of other management solutions and their various capabilities, shows you how to install and configure a variety of solutions, and perform assessments of various workloads within your environment.

Chapter 9, Cross-Platform Management with OMS, shows you how to manage Linux and other non-Windows workloads with OMS and also shows you how to work with collected data, and correlate data from other monitoring solutions to unlock insights and manage your cross-platform workloads wherever they might reside.