azure-monitor-lab

You must first complete the following exercise to prepare your Azure environment before you begin the lab exercises.

Exercise: Prepare your Azure Environment

Tasks:

[!NOTE] To complete this lab you need an Azure subscription.

Prepare your bring-your-own-subscription (BYOS)

This exercise should take approximately 30 minutes to complete.

Prepare your bring-your-own-subscription (BYOS)

This set of lab exercises assumes that you have global administrator permissions to an Azure subscription.

  1. In the Azure Portal Search Bar, enter Resource Groups and select Resource groups from the list of results.
  2. On the Resource Groups page, select Create.
  3. On the Create a Resource Group page, select your subscription and enter the name rg-alpha. Set the region to East US, choose Review + Create, and then choose Create.

Note: This set of exercises assumes that you choose to deploy in the East US Region, but you can change this to another region if you choose. Just remember that each time you see East US mentioned in these instructions you will need to substitute the region you have chosen.

Create App Log Examiners security group

In this exercise, you create an Entra ID security group.

  1. In the Azure Portal Search Bar, enter Azure Active Directory (or Entra ID) from the list of results.
  2. On the Default Directory page, select Groups.
  3. On the Groups page, choose New Group.

  4. On the New Group page, provide the values in the following table and choose Create.

    Property Value
    Group type Security
    Group name App Log Examiners
    Group description App Log Examiners

Deploy and configure WS-VM1

In this exercise, you deploy and configure a Windows Server virtual machine.

  1. In the Azure Portal Search Bar, enter Virtual Machines and select Virtual Machines from the list of results.
  2. On the Virtual Machines page, choose Create and select Azure Virtual Machine.

  3. On the Basics page of the Create A Virtual Machine wizard, select the following settings and then choose Review + Create.

    Property Value
    Subscription Your subscription
    Resource Group rg-alpha
    Virtual machine name WS-VM1
    Region East US
    Availability options No infrastructure redundancy required
    Security type Standard
    Image Windows Server 2022 Datacenter: Azure Edition – x64 Gen2
    VM architecture x64
    Size Standard_D4s_v3 – 4 vcpus, 16 GiB memory
    Administrator account prime
    Password [Select a unique secure password] P@ssw0rdP@ssw0rd
    Inbound ports RDP 3389
  4. Review the settings and select Create.
  5. Wait for the deployment to complete. Once deployment completes choose Go to resource.
  6. On the WS-VM1 properties page, choose Networking.
  7. On the Networking page, select the RDP rule.

  8. On the RDP rule space, change the Source to My IP address and choose Save.

    This restricts incoming RDP connections to the IP address you’re currently using.

  9. On the Networking page, choose Add inbound port rule.

  10. On the Add inbound security rule page, configure the following settings and choose Add.

    Property Value
    Source Any
    Source port ranges *
    Destination Any
    Service HTTP
    Action Allow
    Priority 310
    Name AllowAnyHTTPInbound
  11. On the WS-VM1 page, choose Connect.
  12. Under Native RDP, choose Select.
  13. On the Native RDP page, choose Download RDP file and then open the file. Opening the RDP file opens the Remote Desktop Connection dialog box.
  14. On the Windows Security dialog box, choose More Choices and then choose Use a different account.
  15. Enter the username as .\prime and the password as the secure password you chose in Step 3, and choose OK.
  16. When signed into the Windows Server virtual machine, right-click on the Start hint and then choose Windows PowerShell (Admin).

  17. At the elevated command prompt, type the following command and press Enter.

    Install-WindowsFeature Web-Server -IncludeAllSubFeature -IncludeManagementTools

  18. When the installation completes run the following command to change to the web server root directory.

    cd c:\inetpub\wwwroot\

  19. Run the following command.

    Wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure-Samples/html-docs-hello-world/master/index.html -OutFile index.html

Deploy and configure LX-VM2

In this exercise you deploy and configure a Linux virtual machine.

  1. In the Azure Portal Search Bar, enter Virtual Machines and select Virtual Machines from the list of results.
  2. On the Virtual Machines page, choose Create and select Azure Virtual Machine.

  3. On the Basics page of the Create A Virtual Machine wizard, select the following settings and then choose Review + Create.

    Property Value
    Subscription Your subscription
    Resource Group rg-alpha
    Virtual machine name Linux-VM2
    Region East US
    Availability options No infrastructure redundancy required
    Security type Standard
    Image Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS – x64 Gen2
    VM architecture x64
    Size Standard_D2s_v3 – 2 vcpus, 8 GiB memory
    Authentication type Password
    Username Prime
    Password [Select a unique secure password] P@ssw0rdP@ssw0rd
    Public inbound ports None
  4. Review the information and choose Create.
  5. After the VM deploys, open the VM properties page and choose Extensions + Applications under Settings.
  6. Choose Add and select the Network Watcher Agent for Linux. Choose Next and then choose Review and Create. Choose Create.

Note: The installation and configuration of the OmsAgentForLinux extension will be performed in Exercise 2 after the Log Analytics workspace is created.

Deploy a web app with an SQL Database

  1. Ensure that you’re signed into the Azure Portal.
  2. In your browser, open a new browser tab and navigate to https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/quickstarts/microsoft.web/web-app-sql-database
  3. On the GitHub page, choose Deploy to Azure.
  4. A new tab opens. If necessary, re-sign into Azure with the account that has Global Administrator privileges.
  5. On the Basics page, select Edit template.
  6. In the template editor, delete the contents of lines 158 to 174 inclusive and delete the “,” on line 157. Choose Save.

  7. On the Basics page, provide the following information and choose Next.

    Property Value
    Subscription Your subscription
    Resource Group rg-alpha
    Region East US
    Sku Name F1
    Sku Capacity 1
    Sql Administrator Login prime
    Sql Administrator Login Password [Select a unique secure password] P@ssw0rdP@ssw0rd
  8. Review the information presented and select Create.
  9. After the deployment completes, choose Go to resource group.

Deploy a Linux web app

  1. Ensure that you’re signed into the Azure Portal.
  2. In your browser, open a new browser tab and navigate to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/azure/azure-quickstart-templates/webapp-basic-linux/
  3. On the GitHub page, choose Deploy to Azure.

  4. On the Basics page, provide the following information and choose Next.

    Property Value
    Subscription Your subscription
    Resource Group rg-alpha
    Region East US
    Web app Name AzureLinuxAppWXYZ (assign a random number to the final four characters of the name)
    Sku S1
    Linux Fx version php|7.4
  5. Review the information and choose Create.

Next step: Deploy Log Analytics

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