OMS – Azure Automation

OMS – Azure Automation

What is OMS? .
Is it.. System Center Online rebranded?
OMS is used to gather logs centrally and make decisions upon this information.

What can you do with Operations Management Suite (OMS)?
PaaS application which is running on Azure
Use it to manage on prem or azure based VMs

How do you create and OMS setup
Ideal concept, Log all the information to a storage account. OMS will trawl the logs to make use of the information. The default agent in a VM has the information to transfer to a storage account and passing it to OMS.

Grab solutions from a portal.

  • Check status of patches
  • Change management
  • Log queries
  • Identify weakness in the environment

How you access OMS
OMS workspace is accessed via a web browser to view the information.

OMS Pricing
OMS free version holds data for upto 7 days
OMS costs for per machine monitoring

Identify Weakness or Issues.
For example No End Point security on VMs might be flagged
A recommendation to install a 3rd party tool.
Example : Deep Security – Trend Micro. An Azure recommended product for end point protection appears on the list in the filtered market place

Steve

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