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It’s easy to add Azure virtual machines to an Operational Insights workspace, but on premise servers will require a little more work. In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to manually install the Operations Management Suite (OMS) agent on your servers and connect them to an OpInsights workspace.
Before you can on board servers to Azure OpInsights, you’ll need to create a workspace. If you have an existing workspace, you can still follow the instructions below, but instead select one of your existing workspaces instead of clicking CREATE NEW WORKSPACE.
Azure OpInsights is part of the Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) family of products, so to get access, you need to log in using the following link: https://www.mms.microsoft.com/Account.
If you don’t already have a Microsoft account associated with Azure or OMS, you’ll be guided through the sign up process as part of creating a new workspace. For more information on Azure OpInsights, see What is Azure Operational Insights? on the Petri IT Knowledgebase.
Microsoft Operations Management Suite (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Once you’ve got access to the Microsoft Operations Management Suite web page, follow the instructions below:
Download the Operational Management Suite (OMS) agent (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Alternatively, you can create a new Azure subscription, or choose not to link the new workspace to Azure. Don’t forget to look out at for an email asking you to confirm your email address for use with OpInsights.
Now that we have a workspace, it’s time to on board a server by downloading the OMS agent and connecting it to the workspace:
Connect the OMS agent to a workspace (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Go back to the overview screen in the browser window and refresh the page, you should see on the Settings tile that a data source has been connected to the workspace.
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