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OMS Log Analytics Agent multi-homing support

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Summary: Learn how to get the latest OMS Log Analytics Agent.

Hello, this is Satya Vel, from the OMS team, and today I want to talk about OMS Log Analytics Agent.

The OMS Log Analytics Agent, which is also known as Microsoft Monitoring Agent for Windows, now enables you to send data from one server to multiple workspaces. Various teams in an organization can collect data from the same managed device. We support a maximum of four workspaces per agent, and there is support for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the agent. Illustration that shows three workspaces and a logging agent.

Note: OMS Linux agent multi-homing support is coming

This new agent will be a part of the System Center Operations Manager 2016 release, but customers can upgrade their existing agents to this latest version, which is backwards compatible with System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 and R2. To upgrade your existing agent, you can use System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), PowerShell, or the GUI to do an in-place upgrade.

MMASetup-AMD64.exe /Q:A /R:N /C:"setup.exe /qn AcceptEndUserLicenseAgreement=1"

To support this new capability, we have had to make some changes to the API, which would require you to update your deployment scripts. To add a workspace, use the Log Analytics scripting API with the following PowerShell example.

$mma = New-Object -ComObject 'AgentConfigManager.MgmtSvcCfg' $mma.AddCloudWorkspace($workspaceId, $workspaceKey) $mma.ReloadConfiguration()

Note: If you've used the command line or script previously to install or configure the agent, EnableAzureOperationalInsights was replaced by AddCloudWorkspace.

Optionally, you can add workspace via the user interface on the local agent.

Screenshot that shows the user interface to add a workspace.

FAQ

  • In the majority of cases, you will be prompted for a reboot of the server.
  • The new agent will be available via Microsoft Update in June for those of you who have already installed the older Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) version from our portal.
  • The Azure virtual machine (VM) extensions will be updated with this new capability in June.
  • The new version of the MMA agent is 8.0.10879.0.  The last version of the MMA agent was 7.2.10375.0.
  • Additional charges may occur for data being sent to additional workspaces. For example, if you collect the same event log from one server and send it to two different workspaces, you will be charged per the volume of data collected in each workspace.
  • OMS Linux agent multi-homing support is coming.

For more information, see the detailed documentation about how to configure this agent.

Get a free Microsoft Operations Management Suite (#MSOMS) subscription so that you can test the new alerting features. You can also get a free subscription for Microsoft Azure as well.

Satya Vel
Principal Program Manager
Operations Management Suite Team

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2016
    When can we expect to get the version of the agent that will work on Nano Server?
  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2016
    Hi Satya,I've updated one of my agents on domain controllers and the update requested server restart. Is this default behavior or in some cases only? It is worth mentioning that restart may be required.
    • Anonymous
      May 26, 2016
      Stan, we updated the blog per your request.
  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2016
    Timing is great I am testing this today with clients.
  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2016
    Hi Satya,It is suported the same agent send different types of logs to differents workspaces? (for ex: a DC sending AD logs for one workspace and performance logs for another workspace?)
    • Anonymous
      June 08, 2016
      Marcos yes you can do that.
  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2016
    Hi Satya, I wanted to confirm the following:Do all of the workspaces need to be in the same subscription for agent multi-homing?
    • Anonymous
      August 21, 2016
      Hi Elaine - No - the agent is configured to communicate with the workspaces. It doesn't matter if the workspaces are in different subscriptions.
  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2016
    Afternoon, I may be in the wrong "space" here and if so would you please guide me elsewhere! "SCOM 2012r2 multihome agents how to" is what I am looking for, preferably assistance with a script that can be used against dozens of servers at one pass....We have approx 450+ windows servers, rouglhy half with agents currently, I am looking to multihome all eventually. I was looking for something in powershell that might accomplish this, that I could run from one of the management servers?? I have one script that lets me move agents to a different management server, even that seems to be hit and miss..the environment I work in has three tiers, Test/Development, QC and Production. My goal is to have all the agents Primary homed to the Production management servers (two ofm them) and secondarily homed to the respective tier (QC or Test). This has been accomplished so far manually touching each serevr and was hoping to get a little more advanced to able to concentrate on more SCOM tasks.... I am still learning powershell but my skills are not near the level I need, but working on it..Any assistance, pointers and knowledge you would like to share is greatly appreciated.!!Tony
  • Anonymous
    August 11, 2017
    Can a server be provisioned with for 2 workspaces using an ARM template? We can get it to work for one, but not 2?