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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)

Connect Linux to OMS

Azure Log Analytics supports the monitoring and management of various Linux distributions in your local datacenter and cloud environments. To connect Linux systems to Log Analytics, deploy the OMS Agent for Linux and configure it to report to your Log Analytics workspace.

Getting ready

The OMS agent for Linux supports the use of the OMS Gateway and agent communication through a proxy server. To connect Linux systems to your Log Analytics workspace, ensure that the following firewall and port requirements are met in order for the OMS agent for Linux to communicate with Log Analytics service endpoints:

Service URI

Ports

Direction

*.oms.opinsights.azure.com

443 (HTTPS)

Bi-directional

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