How to do it...
To get started, you should determine which of the key solutions and underlying capabilities you need, and understand how the various OMS cloud services facilitate their respective capabilities. For instance, if you are primarily concerned with insight and analytics capabilities for log collection and searches, and for network health monitoring, you would make use of the Log Analytics service in Azure. If, however, you are interested in protection and recovery capabilities and would like to ensure the availability of your applications and data, you would make use of the Backup and Site Recovery services in Azure. When evaluating the key solutions, note the following capabilities included with each offering:
Insight and Analytics |
Automation and Control |
Protection and Recovery |
Security and Compliance |
Log collection and search |
Azure Automation Desired state configuration (DSC) |
Back up to Azure and restore from Azure |
Security and audit capabilities with threat intelligence |
Network health monitoring and application insights |
Update management and automated remediation |
Site recovery to Azure and the customer's secondary datacenters |
Malware threat analysis |
Application and server dependency mapping (Service Map) |
Change tracking |
Replicate and failover to Azure, and failback from Azure |
Integration with Azure Security Center for in-depth Azure services security management |