I am going to show you how to enable the preview Network Watcher functionality in your Azure subscription. I am also going to show you how to deploy a Network Watcher, which is the new network monitoring solution in Azure. This is an instance in an Azure region.
Network Watcher is still a preview feature and must be opted into on a per-subscription basis. If you want to try out or use Network Watcher, then you will need to enable the feature using PowerShell.
As usual with Azure PowerShell, you should do the following:
You can start the registration process using the following two lines:
Register-AzureRmProviderFeature -FeatureName AllowNetworkWatcher -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Network Register-AzureRmResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Network
The registration process can take a number of minutes. Go find something else to do. You can come back later and check progress by running:
Get-AzureRmProviderFeature -FeatureName AllowNetworkWatcher -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Network
Log into the Azure Portal with your subscription administrator account. Browse to More Services > Network Watcher. The overview screen shows the current enablement status of Network Watcher for each enabled region in each of your subscriptions. At the time of writing this article, the preview release was only available in:
This resource is typical of all Azure resources. You can choose to enable role-based access control to limit access to Network Watcher.
You can return to the Overview to verify that the instance is enabled in the region. From there, you can continue to enable Network Watcher in each region.