OMS Agent for Linux – v1.3.4-127

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The latest release of the OMS Agent for Linux is generally available. This update introduces a new version of Docker provider (version 1.0.0-23), as well as a few bug fixes. New Features Docker provider version 1.0.0-23 Fixes nxOMSGenerateInventory DSC resource memory corruption fix. Installing tar/sed through OS vendor program. syslog-ng unconfigure fix. NPM bug fixes and improvements. nxAutomationWorker DSC resource bug fixes. SOURCE: Github Install OMS Agent for Linux – v1.3.4-127 For x86 Architecture (32-bit) systems:

For x64 Architecture (64-bit) systems:

Where WORKSPACE_ID Is the ID for your OMS workspace, and the SECRET_KEY is the relevant key for your OMS workspace. To determine your OMS workspace ID and primary key: Sign into your OMS Workspace From the Overview … Read More

Application Discovery and Mapping with OMS Service Map

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The Service Map solution in Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) is now generally available. Service Map discovers components of applications running on both Windows and Linux systems, and intuitively maps the communication between the services. This capability enables you to view the connections that affect your systems, and better understand the relationships between the various components of your distributed applications. IMAGE SOURCE: TechNet The benefits are many and include discovery of your application and system components, incident management and root cause analysis, migration assurance, patch management, and BCDR strategy and planning. You can read more about its capabilities in the official Service Map articles. It is worth noting that the concept of Application Dependency Mapping (ADM) and attendant capabilities is … Read More

OMS Agent for Linux – v1.3.1-15

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The latest release of the OMS Agent for Linux is available on Github. This update introduces version 1.2.0-1 of the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI), as well as a few bug fixes. New features OMI version 1.2.0-1 Fixes Log rotation for SELinux-enabled machines Fluentd in_exec patch to resolve security_baseline.conf error explosions Log file size limitation fix to allow up to 100MB log file and up to 10 log files. Segfault error due to libcontainer.so Install OMS Agent for Linux – v1.3.1-15 For x86 Architecture (32-bit) system:

For x64 Architecture (64-bit) System:

Where WORKSPACE_ID Is the ID for your OMS workspace, and the SECRET_KEY is the relevant key for your OMS workspace. To determine your OMS workspace ID and primary … Read More

OMS AD Assessment No data Found errors

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The Active Directory (AD) Assessment management pack is one of the many solutions available to users in OMS. This solution assesses the risk and health of your server environments on a regular interval and provides a prioritized list of recommendations specific to your deployed server infrastructure. If upon adding this solution to your OMS workspace, you encounter “No data found” errors, it’s a likely indication that you do not have the OMS agent installed on any domain controllers managed in your workspace. You can further verify this by using the following OMS search query and reviewing the results.

The search result detail for managed computers will indicate whether or not they meet the requirements for assessment by the solution. … Read More

OMS Agent for Linux – v1.2.0-148

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Just dropping a note about the latest generally available OMS agent for Linux version  v1.2.0-148. This update has been out for some time, and adds some new functionality for network related performance counters as well as fixes a few bugs. The official documentation is on Github. Bug Fix In some cases the omiagent component causes core files to be generated. In some cases, segmentation faults occur when using the latest version of Docker. Whats New Network Related Performance Counters Install OMS Agent for Linux – v1.2.0-148 For x86 Architecture (32-bit) system:

For x64 Architecture (64-bit) System:

Where WORKSPACE_ID Is the ID for your OMS workspace, and the SECRET_KEY is the relevant key for your OMS workspace. To determine … Read More

Exploring the Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) Experience Center

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OMS is a collection of cloud based services for managing and protecting your on-premise and cloud environments. Since OMS is implemented as a cloud based service, you can have it up and running quickly with minimal investment in infrastructure services. Read this detailed article on how to get started with, and onboard to the service. As seen in the article I’ve linked to, and the numerous other such posts on the web, onboarding to the service is fairly unambiguous, and you can onboard in one of several ways. But what if you’d like to kick the tires, idiomatically speaking, before onboarding or signing up for a pricing tier. What options are available to you? This question was recently posed to … Read More

OMS Agent for Linux is Generally Available – v1.2.0-25

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The OMS Agent for Linux is now generally available. The OMS Agent for Linux enables rich and real-time analytics for operational data (Syslog, Performance, Alerts, Inventory) from Linux servers, Docker Containers and monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix and System Center. This latest agent release is v1.2.0-25. This update introduces a couple of bug fixes and new features as detailed in Github. Read the announcement and other details from the official OMS blog here. Bug Fix If metric value is null then value is not sent up to the OMS Service Additional logic to ensure that correct OMS Workspace ID is presented during on-boarding OMS Heartbeat now shows Computer Name Whats New Public Preview of OMS Container Solution sudo in_tail plugin … Read More

Configure OMS Connection to ConfigMgr — Step by Step

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The 1606 release of System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) comes with a whole slew of new features, including a pre-release Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) Connector feature. Learn about ConfigMgr 1606 here. The OMS connector will enable you to sync data such as your collections from ConfigMgr to OMS. Once the collection information is synced to OMS you can then subject any OMS agent-managed endpoint to some action, such as patching, by virtue of its membership in a collection. When you combine this capability with existing system update and other update information that exists in OMS, the practical and other applications are rather evident. Note that because this is a pre-release feature it is meant for early pre-production testing, and … Read More

OMS Agent for Linux – v1.1.0-217

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The latest public preview OMS agent for Linux is available on Github. This updates introduces the following new features: FluentD v12.24: Fluentd is an Ruby-based open source data collector for unifying data collection and consumption for better understanding and use of unstructured data. Among other capabilities, It analyzes event logs, application logs, and clickstreams. This feature in the OMS Agent for Linux introduces a new default FLuentD buffer queue behavior. Support for CollectD Metrics Ability to support custom JSON data sources from OMS Agent for Linux New default set of Performance Counters supported Support Docker Engine Version 1.11.2 and Docker Rest API version 1.23 The omsagent service now runs under omiusers group instead of omsagent group Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (x64/x86) … Read More

Change OMS Workspace Azure Subscription

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While you can perform many administrative tasks for your OMS account from your OMS workspace, there are a number of settings that you will only be able to configure from the Azure Portal or using relevant PowerShell cmdlets. I’ll cover the range of settings that you can configure from your OMS workspace and the Azure portal in another post. In this post I will show you how to move your OMS workspace to a new Azure subscription, regardless of how you created the workspace, and explore some gotchas I’ve encountered during my extensive travels in OMS land.   Workspace Creation Overview Recall that you can create a OMS workspace in one of two ways. From: The Microsoft Operations Management Suite … Read More