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Azure Networking Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Mustafa Toroman
Book Image

Azure Networking Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Mustafa Toroman

Overview of this book

Azure's networking services enable organizations to manage their networks effectively. With the Azure Networking Cookbook, you’ll see how Azure paves the way for an enterprise to achieve reliable performance and secure connectivity. This updated second edition will take you through the latest networking features in Azure. The book starts with an introduction to Azure networking, covering basics such as creating Azure virtual networks, designing address spaces, and creating subnets. You’ll create and manage network security groups, application security groups, and IP addresses in Azure using easy-to-follow recipes. As you progress through the book, you’ll explore various aspects such as DNS and routing, load balancers, Traffic Manager, and site-to-site, point-to-site, and VNet-to-VNet connections. This cookbook covers all the functions crucial to understanding cloud networking practices and being able to plan, implement, and secure your network infrastructure with Azure. You’ll not only upscale your current environment but also get well-versed with monitoring, diagnosing, and ensuring secure connectivity. The book will help you grasp best practices as you learn how to create a robust environment. By the end of this Azure cookbook, you’ll have gained hands-on experience developing cost-effective solutions that can facilitate efficient connectivity in your organization.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Enabling diagnostic logs for Azure Firewall

Diagnostics are a very important part of any IT system, and networking is no exception. The diagnostics settings in Azure Firewall allow us to collect various information that can be used for troubleshooting or auditing.

Getting ready

Before you start, open your browser and go to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.

How to do it...

To enable diagnostics in Azure Firewall, we must follow these steps:

  1. In the Azure Firewall pane, locate Diagnostics settings under Monitoring.
  2. Select the Add diagnostic setting option, as shown in Figure 7.4:
    Selecting the Add diagnostic setting option in the Diagnostic settings pane

    Figure 7.4: Adding a diagnostic setting

  3. In the new pane, fill in the name field and specify where the logs will be stored. Choose the storage account where the logs will be stored, and specify the retention period and which logs will be stored, as shown in Figure 7.5:

    Choosing the storage account and specifying the retention period for diagnostic logs

Figure 7.5: Adding the log details

How it works...

Diagnostics has two purposes—auditing...