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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)

Configure Recovery plans

With the failover capability in ASR, you can failover a single machine to Azure or to a secondary site, or use a recovery plan to failover multiple machines to a target location. With recovery plans, you can sequence and customize the failover and recovery of multi-tier applications that run on multiple VMs. Recovery plans in ASR are used to determine which machines fail over and the manner in which they failover and start up together. Scripts for automation, runbooks, and manual actions can be added to a recovery plan. With this said, it is quite evident that recovery plans are a very important aspect of the failover process in ASR because they enable you to effectively build in or define a failover strategy for your applications. Additionally, ASR recovery plans enable you to achieve one-click failover through the automation of recovery tasks using automation...