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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)

Log Analytics assessment solutions

In this section, we will review assessment solutions in Log Analytics. Assessment solutions assess the risk and health of various workloads within your infrastructure and provides you with a prioritized list of recommendations across various focus areas, to enable you to quickly review and understand the assessments and the impact of the identified risks to the business. These assessments are based on Microsoft best-practices recommendations relating to risk and health factors for the various assessed workloads. Microsoft provides these assessments and configuration management capabilities to various products within its ecosystem using baseline tools and baseline-related services. With the assessment solutions in OMS, Microsoft uses an assessment-as-a-services model, which provides you with the latest and most up-to-date guidance on known risk...