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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 Process Automation

Azure Automation is a cloud-based automation and configuration service that enables users and organizations to deliver continuous IT services and enable consistent management and compliance on heterogeneous workloads across hybrid environments. Azure Automation provides such capabilities as the following:

  • Inventory and change tracking: Get an inventory of your workloads and track changes to services, software, registries, daemons, and files on heterogeneous workloads in your hybrid environment
  • Process Automation: Lower overhead and cumulative costs and leverage efficiencies by automating frequent, long-running, error-prone tasks, and free up your resources to focus on initiatives that add value to the business
  • Configuration management: Consistently deploy, configure, update, and monitor your workload configurations using configuration management...