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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)

Introduction

When some years ago Microsoft announced the general availability of Operations Management Suite (OMS) during her flagship conference, Microsoft Ignite, it was a clear signal of a fundamental change in Microsoft's approach to and support for Linux and open source support workloads. Admittedly, organizations with investments in Microsoft's System Center have been able to monitor and manage various flavors of Linux systems using underlying tools, such as System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). With OMS, Microsoft makes available a hybrid management platform that offers heterogeneous support and enables the seamless management of cross-platform systems, in addition to Windows systems, while complementing capabilities of the System Center tools that you have investments in. OMS simplifies the management of your...