This is my first post in our series on migrating from Orchestrator. You can see the announcement post here, which is also where I will keep track of all our posts. Donnie’s first post on Automation options within Azure got us started with whats available. One of the first things you need to do no …
Orchestrator is Dead, Long Live Automation If you reading this blog and are considering installing Orchestrator 2016/2019 – stop. Don’t. Do not pass go, do not collect your salary. Save your time and energy. Seriously, we know other consultants that are still getting requests for proposals to install System Center Orchestrator, but now is not …
One of the many things an Azure Monitor Alert can do is trigger Azure Functions. As I mentioned in my alerting post, every alert contains an underlying schema. I will once again be using the Common Alert Schema for Azure Monitor, however, this will still work with the old schema. You’ll need an alert if …
Underneath every Azure Monitor Alert is a Schema. I talked a little bit about the schemas here. For this post I’ll be talking about the Common Alert Schema. However, everything I show can still be done with the non common alert schema. In this post I’ll show you how to examine the Azure Monitor Alert …
As with anything in Azure there are multiple ways to skin a cat. We can send logs to our Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace with powershell. Or we can use a powershell based Azure Function, however, in this post I’ll show you how to grab data from an API and use that data to create …
Sometimes we may want to programmatically turn our Azure Functions off or on or do other management tasks with them. This post will show you how you can Manage Azure Functions with Managed Identity Logic Apps. What you’ll need: Azure Function Logic App Azure Active Directory (pretty much always included now right?) Setup Managed Identity …
Much like in my previous post about syncing SCVMM VMs to SCOM Groups, we can Sync SCVMM Hosts to SCOM Groups. I will show you how you can create SCOM groups from your SCVMM Host groups. Several reason you might want to do this is maintenance mode of an entire cluster, setting custom monitors or …