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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 baseline assessment

Security baseline assessment is one of the assessment capabilities of OMS Security. The Security and Audit solution uses this capability to help you assess how compliant your machines are with an established configuration for highly secure server deployments.

This assessment is part of the Security and Audit solution. You will need to install the Security and Audit solution to access this capability in your OMS workspace. Note that baseline assessment supports both Windows and Linux machines.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to use security baseline assessment:

Adding the Security and Audit...