S2S VPN Configuration – Integrating On-Premises Networks with Azure

S2S VPN Configuration To configure an S2S VPN tunnel using Azure VPN Gateway, we will use a Windows server with RRAS features installed. This will work as the equivalent of an on-premises appliance that would typically run a persistent connection with the VPN gateway. An S2S tunnel is typically designed to be persistent: Figure 17.29 […]

Configuring Network Watcher – Monitoring and Troubleshooting Virtual Networking

Configuring Network Watcher Now that you understand what Network Watcher is, we will explore in the following sections how to configure and use the various components available to the service. Network resource monitoring In this demonstration, we are going to monitor the network on VMs. For this demonstration, create three Windows Server 2016 data center […]

Monitoring on-premises connectivity – Monitoring and Troubleshooting Virtual Networking

Monitoring on-premises connectivity You can monitor your on-premises connectivity using Network Watcher as well. It offers two different features for this, NPM and VPN troubleshoot, which, just like the other features, are accessible from the Azure portal. Configuring next hop You can use the next hop feature to specify a source and destination IPv4 address. […]

Downloading and extracting files for labs – Practice Labs – Configuring and Managing Virtual Networking

Downloading and extracting files for labs Follow these steps to download and extract the files: Figure 19.1 – Downloading files (ZIP) Figure 19.2 – Extract All (ZIP) You have downloaded all the files you need for the labs later in the chapter. Virtual network subnetting lab This lab will guideyou through creating an Azure virtual […]

Azure Monitor – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor Azure Monitor is a monitoring solution in the Azure portal that delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from cloud and on-premises environments. It can be used to monitor various aspects of your environments (for instance, the performance of applications) and identify issues affecting those applications and other resources […]

Insights – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor

Insights Monitor creates a view of relevant monitoring details specific to your resources and uses intelligence to extract value from collected data, such as performance, health, and availability data. These views are compartmentalized into resource-specific insight views, such as Application Insights, VM insights, and Container insights. Application Insights Application Insights is a telemetry tool used […]

Diagnostic settings – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor

Diagnostic settings You can also configure diagnostic settings on different Azure resources. There are two types of diagnostic logs available in Azure Monitor: The contents of these logs are different for every Azure resource. These logs differ from guest OS-level diagnostic logs. To collect OS-level logs, an agent needs to be installed on the virtual […]

Creating and analyzing metrics and alerts – Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor

Creating and analyzing metrics and alerts There are several ways to consume and analyze alerts and metrics across Azure Monitor. You can consume this directly from the Monitor service as well as from the associated resource blade. In the upcoming sections, we will set up metrics and alerts and show you how to analyze them. […]