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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)

Cross Platform Management with OMS

Many organizations have complex, heterogeneous IT environments comprising Windows and Linux systems and workloads deployed across on-premises and cloud environments. Managing heterogeneous workloads can oftentimes prove challenging, especially when your monitoring and management solutions are tailored to only a subset of platforms, necessitating the use of multiple management and monitoring tools, which detract from ease of management. As a true hybrid management platform that supports both Windows and cross-platform systems wherever they may reside, Microsoft OMS was built from the ground up with cross-platform support in mind, and is replete with an ever-growing list of capabilities and features for monitoring and managing cross-platform workloads. This chapter will provide an overview of cross-platform management and monitoring capabilities...