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Integrating Operations Manager with Log Analytics not supported for Linux #28678

Closed Ibnajjar closed 5 years ago

Ibnajjar commented 5 years ago

It is mentioned in the document that "Configure integration between Operations Manager and Log Analytics to forward collected data from Linux and Windows computers reporting to a management group."

However Linux is not supported to send it's data to Log Analytics through SCOM integration.

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femsulu commented 5 years ago

@Ibnajjar Thanks for the Comment. We are actively investigating and will get back to you soon.

femsulu commented 5 years ago

@MGoedtel - can you confirm Linux is indeed supported per snippet below? image

MGoedtel commented 5 years ago

@femsulu - I'll need to reach out to the System Center OM team to sanity check this. If I remember correctly, the Linux agent reporting to the management group will receive configuration but will send the collected data directly to the service, but I need to verify that.

femsulu commented 5 years ago

@MGoedtel looking forward to your confirmation. @Ibnajjar does this answer your question?

MGoedtel commented 5 years ago

So I was reminded when I spoke with the OpsMgr PG something I lost sight of. When the Linux server is monitored by OpsMgr, the workflows are running on the management server it reports to and collects the data from the Linux agent (log and performance data for example). When the management group is integrated with Azure Monitor, the data configured for collection from the workspace is run on the management server and it pulls data from the Linux agent. That statement is correct. I hope this clears things up and if I misunderstood your point or it didn't clear things, please let me know.

Thanks!

Ibnajjar commented 5 years ago

Thanks Matt for the response on this, however there is no way to configure data collection for Linux machines, because from SCOM you can only add "Windows" Computers to the list of managed machines that will send out the data to Azure (Linux machines are not included in the filtered class). if you may point me to how we configure the data for collection for Linux because this is not exactly clear

MGoedtel commented 5 years ago

@Ibnajjar - Ah, gotcha. I've reached out to the PG to get clarity on this because this isn't a scenario that I've personally tested after taking over the docs for the agents. The one statement I did find in our docs was vague related to this scenario, which bothers me. In the meantime, I'm also setting this up in my lab to test/validate.

MGoedtel commented 5 years ago

@Ibnajjar - After researching this further myself I have determined that indeed, when you integrate OpsMgr with Azure Monitor and have Linux servers monitored by OpsMgr, it isn't designed to support monitoring them based on what is configured in the workspace (e.g. collecting perf data, Syslog, etc.). Even though I came across this statement in the LA Agent overview article - "Linux computers monitored by an Operations Manager management group integrated with Log Analytics do not receive configuration for data sources and forward collected data through the management group." under the paragraph explaining about this scenario, I found it a bit vague and unclear. Even if you could, performance data would need to go direct from the Linux server to the service and you would still have to configure the agent to multi-home between OpsMgr and AzMon, which somewhat defeats the intention of this integrated approach. I'm bugging the docs and will fix them this week. Now, if you are looking for a way to take the data collected by OpsMgr from the Linux servers and forward to AzMon, you could create a script or other programatic approach to pull that data out of OpsMgr and use the Data Collector API to ingest into your LA workspace. #in-process

MGoedtel commented 5 years ago

please-close I've updated the documentation to address this and should go live later today. Thanks.

Ibnajjar commented 5 years ago

Thanks @MGoedtel for the help on this!