Getting Up with Operation Management Suite in less than 30 min on Linux (CentOS/Ubuntu) and Windows

Operations Management Suite overview:

·         https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt484091.aspx

·         http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/operations-management-suite/

Quick guide to get up and running with OMS with basic features (Works in both V1(ASM) and V2(ARM)):

·         Create an OMS workspace (onetime setup)

·         Browse the OMS workspaces, setup the workspace, and install agents (Windows and Linux)

(Please note that OMS also has discoverabilities. You can also install the agent while provisioning the VMs.)

·         Check the LogAnalytics backed by superfast search which leverages Azure Machine Learning.

Step 1:

Go to https://manage.windowsazure.com à + New (from bottom left of the page) à App Services à Operational Insights à Quick Create à fill in the form…(start with “Free”)

Step 2:

Go to https://manage.windowsazure.com à Operational Insights à Select your workspace à Select manage à You can skip the email confirmation page à Go through the setting wizard à Select all the default solutions à On the connected sources, install the agents on the Linux/Windows (see below links for supported versions,) please note that this pane will also lists the servers those are being currently monitored à Select the performance counters under data tab à (optional) check from upgrade and account management under account tab.

Step 3:

Play with OMS. (Please note that OMS also provides REST APIs which returns JSON for advanced needs.)

References

·         OMS search reference: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt450427.aspx

·         https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt484118.aspx --- Get Started with OMS

·         http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2015/11/04/oms-agent-for-linux-now-available.aspx --- Linux Agent

·         https://github.com/Microsoft/OMS-Agent-for-Linux/blob/master/docs/OMS-Agent-for-Linux.md --- cmds

Advance:

1.       Automate log searches with the Log Search API: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt484116.aspx

2.       Leveraging the OMS Search API in an Azure Automation Runbook: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/leveraging-the-oms-search-api-in-an-azure-automation-runbook/

3.       Enabling the Microsoft Monitoring Agent in Windows JSON Templates: http://blogs.technet.com/b/manageabilityguys/archive/2015/11/19/enabling-the-microsoft-monitoring-agent-in-windows-json-templates.aspx

4.       Azure / Azure Stack – IaaS VM ARM MMA & Operational Insights Template Integration: http://www.danielstechblog.de/azure-azure-stack-iaas-vm-arm-mma-operational-insights-template-integration/

5.       Connect computers directly to OMS: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt484108.aspx

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I have tried today OMS with V1 VMs (windows 2012 R2 DC  + centos 7.1; picked from gallery) and V2 VMs (Windows + Ubuntu; picked from gallery) and worked like a charm.

From history of my centos:

uname -a

cd /tmp/

wget https://github.com/MSFTOSSMgmt/OMS-Agent-for-Linux/releases/download/1.0.0-47/omsagent-1.0.0-47.universal.x64.sh

chmod +x omsagent-1.0.0-47.universal.x64.sh

./omsagent-1.0.0-47.universal.x64.sh --install -w <workspaceid> -s  <key>

ps -ef | grep oms