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In this series of blog posts, we will show you how to get started with Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS).
Table of Contents
Introduction
Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) is a Microsoft cloud-based IT management solution that helps you manage and protect your on-premise and cloud infrastructure. Since OMS is implemented as a cloud service, you can have it up and running quickly with minimal investment in infrastructure services. New features are delivered automatically, saving you a lot of ongoing maintenance and upgrade costs.
In addition to providing valuable services on its own, OMS can integrate with System Center components to extend your existing management investments into the cloud. System Center and OMS can work together to provide a full hybrid management experience.
In this series of blog posts, we will show you how to get started with Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) so you can better protect guest workloads in Azure, AWS, Windows Server, Linux, VMWare, Open Stack and respond proactively to changing business needs and simplify IT management – all from a single portal with no infrastructure to maintain.
Get started with OMS
We’ve written a series of 4 blog posts on this subject that we’ve published in collaboration with StarWind Software.
Check the Step-by-Step guides on the StarWind blog by selecting the desired section below:
Establish Microsoft Operations Management Suite
How to establish a Microsoft Operations Management Suite environment.
In this part, we will create a Microsoft Security Account and a Microsoft Azure account and then link them to a newly created Microsoft Operations Management Suite Workspace. You will be introduced to Operational Insights, an online service that analyzes installations of Microsoft Server software and sees how it integrates with System Center Operations Manager and OMS.
Configure OMS
How to configure OMS to collect data through integration with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and through direct connections to individual servers.
In this part, you will become familiar with the OMS console. You will learn how to configure OMS to collect data through integration with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and through direct connections to individual servers. In addition, you will learn how to customize your OMS dashboard.
Configure automation
Runbooks are workflows that perform an administrative process. The good news is you do not have to create all Runbooks from scratch.
Workflows can be uploaded to Azure from the Azure Runbook Gallery, the Microsoft Script Center, Microsoft MSDN and TechNet libraries, and the Azure community forums. OMS leverages the runbook capabilities of Microsoft Azure.
In the third part, we will cover how to configure automation for OMS.
Log Analytics with OMS
In part 4, we will cover how to use the search feature of OMS to perform powerful queries against data being collected by OMS in support of your log analytic efforts for several different OMS Solutions, we discussed how to use OMS Search in conjunction with the Security and Audit Solution to identify any suspicious activity that might occur in your environment.
Summary
As we explored in this series of posts, Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) is a Microsoft cloud-based IT management solution that helps you manage and protect your on-premise and cloud infrastructure.
Since OMS is implemented as a cloud service, you can have it up and running quickly with minimal investment in infrastructure services. New features are delivered automatically, saving you a lot of ongoing maintenance and upgrade costs.
In addition to providing valuable services on its own, OMS can integrate with System Center components to extend your existing management investments into the cloud. System Center and OMS can work together to provide a full hybrid management experience.
We hope this series of blog posts was informative for you and I would like to thank you for reading!
Enjoy,
-Charbel
