Exploring Other Management Solutions

In this chapter, we will explore management solutions that you can use to address various management scenarios within your infrastructure. The following topics will be covered:

Installing other management solutions
Reviewing other management solutions
Log Analytics Assessment solutions

Introduction

As a hybrid management platform, OMS Log Analytics enables IT operations teams to collect and analyze data for various management scenarios using management solutions.

Installing other management solutions

Management solutions contain the logic, data acquisition, and visualization rules that provide assessments, metrics, and insights about specific workloads and areas of your infrastructure.

Getting ready

In order to fully use the visualization and automation resources contained in various management solutions, you will need a Log Analytics workspace and an Azure Automation account configured with your workspace.

Create an Automation account

If you do not already have an Automation account, follow these steps to create one:

Reviewing other Management solutions

In this section, we will review various management solutions, starting with the Agent Health solution, which helps you understand the behavior of agents connected to your workspace, and then we will move on to various other solutions that provide information around various problem areas.

How to do it...

Let's start by assessing the health of machines that are connected to your Log Analytics workspace.

Agent Health

The Agent Health solution is part of the Insights and Analytics/Log Analytics solution offering. The solution provides...

Log Analytics assessment solutions

In this section, we will review assessment solutions in Log Analytics. Assessment solutions assess the risk and health of various workloads within your infrastructure and provides you with a prioritized list of recommendations across various focus areas, to enable you to quickly review and understand the assessments and the impact of the identified risks to the business. These assessments are based on Microsoft best-practices recommendations relating to risk and health factors for the various assessed workloads. Microsoft provides these assessments and configuration management capabilities to various products within its ecosystem using baseline tools and baseline-related services. With the assessment solutions in OMS, Microsoft uses an assessment-as-a-services model, which provides you with the latest and most up-to-date guidance on known risk...