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Monitoring & Logging on-prem Linux devices/servers takes into consideration that the majority of network devices and network appliances are all Linux based and there are also a large number of Linux servers in circulation. A large number of my customers use a large number of Linux servers and network devices – which all need to…
Here’s an example similar to my other Blog post Instant Monitoring of Windows Services. Instead, this blog demonstrates monitoring Performance Counters and using alerts to fire off a scheduled task. This scheduled task fires off a PowerShell script which in turn fires off an Azure Function, which in turn fires off an SMS text message…
Has there been a seriously critical Windows Service which you need to monitor in real-time, or more than one Windows Service? – i.e. as soon as the Windows Service stops, you need to be notified by getting an SMS text message to your phone – within 5 seconds? While this is slightly manual, once setup,…
You can send practically any data to Azure Log Analytics (aka. OMS). As long as you can convert it to JSON format prior to sending it to your Log Analytics workspace. Here’s the official write up on it https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-data-collector-api. Data that you upload gets sent to a custom log, with the characters ‘_CL‘ at the end,…
An Azure blob SAS (Shared Access Signature) token is used in many places in order to access either a specific blob or a container. It’s simply a string made up of your storage account name and your storage account key. The whole point of the SAS token is that you can share it with anyone…
There’s a couple of ways to do DSC on Azure, you can deploy a template and use the DSC extension resource to deploy DSC configuration to your VM (simple for quick simple deployments), or you can leverage Azure Automation as a DSC Pull server (subject of this blog), where you store all your DSC configuration…
If you want to troubleshoot DSC (Desired State Configuration)… You can easily run a DSC config script locally on your computer, apply the MOF manually on-demand and watch it apply in realtime as per the below. The below are the lines of PowerShell code you need for testing. First though, make sure you run the…
Are you an IT Professional and being forced more into the DevOps world? It may seem scary, however it’s not that scary once you have the proper tools. The only difference is that you no longer have to stand or walk into a cold datacenter and stand in front of a server – it’s all…
The following will show you the step-by-step setup for Azure Migrate Deep Discovery, installing both the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (OMS / SCOM) and the Dependency Agent (Service Map / Wire Data). Azure Migrate has two types of discovery that logically runs in order, 1) a Light Discovery (agentless) which leverages the VMware inventory, and 2)…
Some of the announcements at Microsoft Build 2018 the other week: AI + Machine Learning ML.NET Microsoft Cognitive Services – Microsoft Speech Services Microsoft Cognitive Services – QnA Maker API Microsoft Cognitive Services – Language Understanding Speech to Intent Microsoft Cognitive Services – Bing Custom Search API Microsoft Cognitive Services – Bing Statistics Microsoft Cognitive…
