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This post will show you how to deploy an Azure Logs Analytics, otherwise known as Operations Management Suite (OMS), agent to a Windows Server machine that is running outside of Azure. This post assumes that the agent will have direct Internet access — there is another solution that can use the OMS Log Analytics Forwarder.
Microsoft OMS is capable of monitoring machines that are running in Azure, but it is also capable of monitoring machines that are running outside of Azure. Microsoft’s marketing mentions on-premises or Amazon Web Services (AWS), but the reality is that you can deploy the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) onto any Windows Server machine that meets the technical requirements and where you have admin-level login access to the operating system.
The reach of OMS’s monitoring can then be extended to all of your servers, adding deeper insights into infrastructure and applications. You might already have a monitoring system for on-premises or hosted servers, such as System Center Operations Manager (SCOM); that’s not an issue because OMS can complement those solutions — it actually integrates with SCOM. OMS adds other levels of monitoring, such as deeper insight into Active Directory and SQL Server, network performance monitoring, and security auditing.
This solution option is based on agents communicating directly via the Internet [Image Credit: Microsoft]
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The following must be present for this solution:
You can download the agent from the Log Analytics (OMS) workspace in the Azure Portal:
Download the MMA from the OMS workspace [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
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You can use automated methods to deploy the agent, such as command line or desired state configuration, but I will show you the setup.exe method. Make sure that you have access to the MMA installer from the machine that you want to install it on.
Use the MMA with OMS [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
Connect the MMA to your OMS workspace [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
The agent should start reporting to OMS after a few minutes.
The agent on the server is connected to OMS [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
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Inspect the OMS MMA logs on the machine [Image Credit: Aidan Finn]
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