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Azure Inventory Details to CSV — Azure Automation Written By: Jijo Varghese, Cloud Engineer, Powerupcloud Below is a step by step by using  Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker and a SendGrid account to trigger daily inventory emails. We chose Hybrid runbook instead of a plain Azure automation runbook because we needed local storage to write the CSV file with inventory details before sending it out as an email. So in order to follow this step by step, you need following resources: Azure Automation Operations Management Suite ( OMS ) Windows Machine Sendgrid Account Hybrid Runbook Worker feature allows you to run runbooks on machines located in your data center in order to manage local resources. The runbooks are stored and managed in Azure Automation and then delivered to one or more on-premises machines Installing Hybrid Runbook Worker Create Operations Management Suite workspace and add Automation solution to Operations Management Suite workspace Open O...

An Overview of Azure Operations and Management Suite Written By: Ranjeeth Kuppala, CTO, Powerupcloud We recently had to demonstrate Azure OMS as a possible alternate (or extension) to on-prem System Center for a large, US based enterprise customer. We took OMS suite for a spin and came out impressed. What follows is an overview. OMS  is IT management as service, extending system center into the cloud. OMS complements the investment that was already made on system center on premise and deliver full hybrid management capabilities. OMS can work as standalone product even without existing system center. OMS is easy to setup and always up to date, because it is SaaS and it helps with analyzing logs, automation, security and compliance etc. What can you do with OMS? Azure OMS is like the popular  ELK stack  (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) on drugs. Add a bit of Nessus, and a pinch of Nagios and a healthy dose of system center. That’s OMS for you! The major ...

Connecting Clouds — AWS to Azure Site to Site VPN Step by Ste   Connecting Clouds — AWS to Azure Site to Site VPN Step by Ste   Written By: Karthik AU, Cloud Engineer at Powerupcloud. One of our customers run massive fleet of servers spread across AWS and Azure and it was necessary for us to establish a reliable tunnel between AWS and Azure for secure access. This post has a detailed step by step of establishing this connectivity. We are going to configure RRAS on windows server 2012 R2 on AWS and on the Azure side, we will configure the VNet Gateway for connectivity. So lets take a look at the steps below Pre-requisites On Azure Virtual network gateway Local network gateway Virtual network Ubuntu instance (to test the connectivity) Make sure you disable the firewall on instance that we create for test. On AWS VPC Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacentre Ubuntu instance (to test the connectivity) Make sure to disable t...