Introduction Writing Runbooks in Az Automation is possible in the following languages: PowerShell and Python, in PowerShell it is also possible to write PowerShell Workflow. In this blog post, I will walk through some highlights in writing 'PowerShell Workflow' and how to upload it to 'Runbook gallery' in Azure Automation. The pros and cons of using Workflow The … Continue reading Publish Custom PowerShell Workflows to Azure Automation
Author: Yoel Borovsky
Calculate costs for Migration from Orchestrator to Azure Automation
In moving from On premise to Azure, we first examine costs, in this article we will explain how to perform the calculation in transition from Orchestrator to Azure automation
Manage Azure monitor with Azure Blueprint
Background Azure resources can be deploy and configure automatically by using ARM Templates, Azure Policy, PS scripts etc... those automation ways have it's limit to sets of allows and deny functions, And in particular, it can be configure only on the subscription level, with Azure Blueprint [Preview] you can manage policies and target it on … Continue reading Manage Azure monitor with Azure Blueprint
Azure Application Insight – Create Dashboard from several resources
Introduction: Azure Application insight its solution to keeps track of Application performance and failures, user’s behavior and more. For an introduction, here is a few words about the service: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/app-insights-overview Once the service is configured and the monitoring is turned on, the Telemetries transfer by 'Instrumentation key' is set, so the data stored by the … Continue reading Azure Application Insight – Create Dashboard from several resources
Disable SCOM management pack on a group of agents
One of the advantages of the SCOM system is the accompanying Management Packs, these packages give us the ability to easily monitor all the system components automatically, but the monitoring by default is on all agents, what to do when you want to disable monitoring on some of the server group / Agents, for example, … Continue reading Disable SCOM management pack on a group of agents
Monitoring database query result using SCOM
For monitoring a result from DB, you must use either a script or a PS or VB type, when the script makes a query to the database analyze the information and alert according to the condition detection. It is common that to monitor multiple servers with different queries, additional monitoring is required when each monitoring … Continue reading Monitoring database query result using SCOM
Create Azure monitor Alert based on Custom metrics
Azure Diagnostics Extension provides the basic monitoring and diagnostics capabilities on a Azure resources. Diagnostics agent enable monitoring Azure guest VM, with capabilities to use standard metrics and to add a new extended metrics that are not collected by default. This is can be done by allowing “Diagnostics Settings” on azure virtual machine, “Enable guest … Continue reading Create Azure monitor Alert based on Custom metrics
Manage SCOM Alerts Using REST API
In this blog post, I will walk through how to get alerts from SCOM using REST API. REST API is applicable from 1801 version which support a set of HTTP operations, in this guide I’ll explained how to filter the alerts to get only the scope you need. In the examples in the following article … Continue reading Manage SCOM Alerts Using REST API
How to create a new SCOM class and subclass
SCOM Admin needs to know the basic structure of Management packs and knowledge about classes and objects, what are the differences between the classes, and what is the projection of choosing a class. Management packs provided by the products companies like Microsoft for Active Directory Exchange, and so forth, do the work for us, by … Continue reading How to create a new SCOM class and subclass
How to associate an account to SCOM unit monitor
In this blogpost, I’ll run through an example of how to associate a Run as Account to script monitor. In SCOM, the way to delegate permissions is by setting a profile and an account that is linked to that profile, we will create the profile in the Management Pack and then attach the profile to … Continue reading How to associate an account to SCOM unit monitor
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