Azure Best Practices delivered to machines anywhere with new Azure Arc and Automanage integration.

Tired of manually onboarding and configuring Azure services for your Arc-enabled servers? With Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices, you can point, click, set, and forget to extend Azure security, monitoring, and governance services to servers anywhere.

Directly from Azure portal, you can generate an extensible onboarding script can be run on Windows and Linux servers running on-premises or other clouds like AWS, GCP, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Within the single server onboarding experience for Azure Arc, you can select to enable Azure Automanage as you onboard machines to Azure Arc. This means you can go onboard your Azure Arc-enabled servers to Azure services from Day 1.

Azure Automanage offers you the flexibility to onboard to all or a customized subset of these Azure services.

• By connecting to an Azure Log Analytics workspace and Azure Automation account, you can unlocking capabilities across security and management without needing to plan for deployment.
• Through Machine Insights Monitoring, we capture key operating system performance indicators related to processor, memory, network adapter, and disk utilization helping to identify bottlenecks.
• Through Update Management, we deliver patching helping to quickly assess the status of available OS updates and manage the process of installing OS updates.
• Through Azure Automanage Machine Configuration, we deliver an Azure security baseline in audit-only mode to enhance security compliance and posture management.
• Through Change Tracking and Inventory Management, change tracking across services, daemons software, registry, and files in your environment to help you diagnose unwanted changes and raise alerts. Inventory support allows you to query in-guest resources for visibility into installed applications and other configuration items.

By coupling Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices with Azure Arc-enabled servers, you can seamlessly deliver the best of Azure management to servers anywhere. Try it today at https://aka.ms/ArcOnboard!