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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)

Using the Update Management solution

The Update Management solution in OMS is part of the Automation & Control offering. Update Management identifies missing system updates and orchestrates the 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 and, using automation, update deployments on supported operating systems.

Getting ready

To use the Update Management solution, ensure you do the following:

  • Create and configure an Azure Automation account.
  • Ensure that machines are running supported operating systems. See the Supported operating systems subsection.
  • Target machines with Windows agents should...