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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)

Configuration management with Azure Automation

Configuration management in Azure Automation enables users and organizations to manage and configure their heterogeneous workloads by leveraging such capabilities as inventory collection, change tracking, and desired state configuration. Azure Automation configuration management is based on PowerShell DSC and it enables you to create, manage, compile, and test your DSC configurations, as well as manage nodes that will be subject to your configurations.

How to do it...

In this section we will review steps for creating a sample configuration for the Windows web server IIS role, and steps for compiling, applying, and testing the configuration.

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