How to Import Azure Monitor, Sentinel Workbooks

A common request I get is how to import one of my Azure Monitor Workbooks into Azure. In this post I’ll show you several ways to import them. Here are some of my Workbooks you can import. Ultimate Azure Inventory Azure SQL LogicApps/Azure Sentinel Playbooks Azure Automation Update Management Azure File Sync Syslog Windows Event …

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Azure Monitor Alerting at Scale: IaaS

In this post I will expand upon the methods I showed here and show you how I do IaaS Alerting in Azure Monitor. As a refresher I believe alerting at scale is: Programmatic Alert Creation Automatically adds/removes resources Having read my previous posts you’ll also know that I prefer a Log Analytics workspace for Metric …

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Its Time to Migrate from Orchestrator

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 …

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Building JSON Payload in Powershell

When we’re building JSON payload in Powershell, there are a number of things to consider. What are our object types in Powershell? How to combine multiple Powershell Objects to one JSON object? How is the API going to read and parse that payload? For the purposes of this post I’ll be demoing against the Log …

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Sync SCVMM Hosts to SCOM Groups

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 …

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Sync SCVMM Cloud VMs to SCOM groups

Within System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) you have the ability to define clouds, this is useful for a number of reasons. However, its also useful for monitoring purposes. For instance in the environment I developed this script for, we had a Prod Cloud and a Non Proud Cloud, among others. This allowed me to …

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