AZ-600 Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack Hub Questions and Answers

Integrate Azure Stack Hub with monitoring solutions using syslog forwarding

The syslog channel exposes audits, alerts, and security logs from all the components of the Azure Stack Hub infrastructure. Use syslog forwarding to integrate with security monitoring solutions and to retrieve all audits, alerts, and security logs to store them for retention.

Cmdlets to configure syslog forwarding

Configuring syslog forwarding requires access to the privileged endpoint (PEP). Two PowerShell cmdlets have been added to the PEP to configure the syslog forwarding:

### cmdlet to pass the syslog server information to the client and to configure the transport protocol, the encryption and the authentication between the client and the server

Set-SyslogServer [-ServerName ] [-ServerPort ] [-NoEncryption] [-SkipCertificateCheck] [-SkipCNCheck] [-UseUDP] [-Remove]

### cmdlet to configure the certificate for the syslog client to authenticate with the server

Set-SyslogClient [-pfxBinary ] [-CertPassword ]

Configure the integrated system to resolve external names by using a DNS Server that has an IP address of 10.100.100.100.

Resolving external DNS names from Azure Stack Hub

To resolve DNS names for endpoints outside Azure Stack Hub (for example: www.bing.com), you need to provide DNS servers that Azure Stack Hub can use to forward DNS requests for which Azure Stack Hub isn 't authoritative. For deployment, DNS servers that Azure Stack Hub forwards requests to are required in the Deployment Worksheet (in the DNS Forwarder field). Provide at least two servers in this field for fault tolerance. Without these values, Azure Stack Hub deployment fails. You can edit the DNS Forwarder values with the Set-AzSDnsForwarder cmdlet after deployment.

Configure conditional DNS forwarding

Important

This only applies to an AD FS deployment.

To enable name resolution with your existing DNS infrastructure, configure conditional forwarding.

To add a conditional forwarder, you must use the privileged endpoint.

For this procedure, use a computer in your datacenter network that can communicate with the privileged endpoint in Azure Stack Hub.

1. Open an elevated Windows PowerShell session (run as administrator), and connect to the IP address of the privileged endpoint. Use the credentials for CloudAdmin authentication.

$cred=Get-Credential

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName -ConfigurationName PrivilegedEndpoint -Credential $cred

2. After you connect to the privileged endpoint, run the following PowerShell command. Substitute the sample values provided with your domain name and IP addresses of the DNS servers you want to use.

Register-CustomDnsServer -CustomDomainName "contoso.com" -Custom

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Step 1: Run Get-AzsRegistrationToken

Change the Azure Stack Hub integrated system registration to use an Azure subscription named Subscription3 that has a GUID of 12345678-1234-1234-1234-222222222222.

Get-AzsRegistrationToken

Get-AzsRegistrationToken generates a registration token from the input parameters.

To register the Azure Stack Hub resource provider with Azure, start PowerShell ISE as an administrator and use PowerShell cmdlets with the EnvironmentName parameter set to the appropriate Azure subscription type.

Step 2: Run the Register-AszEnvironment cmdlet and specify the –RegistrationToken $Token parameter.

Step 3: Run the Select-AzSubscription cmdlet and specify the –Subscription 12345678-1234-1234-1234-222222222222 parameter.

To change the azure subscription using PowerShell, we can use the Select-AZSubscription command. When you use this command, you can use either the subscription ID, Subscription Name, or the Tenant ID.

Step 4: Run Set-AszRegistration.

Before proceeding, in the same PowerShell session, verify again that you're signed in to the correct Azure PowerShell context.

This context is the Azure account that was used to register the Azure Stack Hub resource provider. In the same PowerShell session, run the Set-AzsRegistration cmdlet:

$CloudAdminCred = Get-Credential -UserName -Message "Enter the cloud domain credentials to access the privileged endpoint."

$RegistrationName = ""

Set-AzsRegistration `

-PrivilegedEndpointCredential $CloudAdminCred `

-PrivilegedEndpoint `

-AgreementNumber `

-BillingModel Capacity `

-RegistrationName $RegistrationName

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Box 1: The Default Provider Subscription

A default Microsoft SQL Server instance will host the database of the App Service resource provider.

In Azure Stack Hub Subscriptions, select the Default Provider Subscription. Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub must be deployed in the Default Provider Subscription.

Box 2:

Enter the SQL Server details for the server instance used to host the App Service resource provider database and then select Next. The installer validates the SQL connection properties.

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Step 1: Create a config.file and save the file as Sloud-init.txt file.

Publish a custom cloud-init built image of a Linux virtual machine to Azure Stack Hub Marketplace on the integrated system.

Add Linux images to the Azure Stack Hub Marketplace

1: Create a cloud-init.txt file with your cloud-config

Step 2: Upload the file to Azure Stack Hub storage account.

2: Reference cloud-init.txt during the Linux VM deployment

Upload the file to an Azure storage account, Azure Stack Hub storage account, or GitHub repository reachable by your Azure Stack Hub Linux VM.

Step 3: Provision on Azure Stack Hub virtual machine by using Az PowerShell moduel.

You can create an Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS virtual machine (VM) by using Azure Stack Hub PowerShell.

Make sure to reference the cloud-init.txt as a part of the -CustomData flag:

$VirtualMachine =Set-AzVMOperatingSystem -VM $VirtualMachine `

-Linux `

-ComputerName "MainComputer" `

-Credential $cred -CustomData "#include https://cloudinitstrg.blob.core.windows.net/strg/cloud-init.txt "

Box 1: Subject Alternative Name

Implement the App Service resource provider and the Event Hubs resource provider on the integrated system/

Only the Subject Alternative Name is used.

Box 2: DNS Name = =*.eventhub.east.azurestack.treyresearch.net

Event Hubs prerequisites

Procure public key infrastructure (PKI) SSL certificates for Event Hubs. The Subject Alternative Name (SAN) must adhere to the following naming pattern: CN=*.eventhub... Subject Name may be specified, but it's not used by Event Hubs when handling certificates. Only the Subject Alternative Name is used. See PKI certificate requirements for the full list of detailed requirements.

Box 1: Administrator management endpoint

Note: The developers report high chargeback costs for the dev1 region.

Two integrated systems that are dedicated to application development and have the following configurations:

• The integrated systems are disconnected from the Internet. The workloads in the user subscriptions have Internet access.
• One integrated system has a region name of dev1, and the other has a region name of dev2.
• Both regions are used only by developers at Northwind Traders.

The request gets consumption details for the requested subscriptions and for the requested time frame. There is no request body.

This usage API is a provider API, so the caller must be assigned an Owner, Contributor, or Reader role in the provider's subscription.

Method, Request URI

GET https://{armendpoint}/subscriptions/{subId}/providers/Microsoft.Commerce.Admin/subscriberUsageAggregates?reportedStartTime={reportedStartTime} &reportedEndTime={reportedEndTime}&aggregationGranularity={granularity}&subscriberId={sub1.1}&api-version=2015-06-01-preview&continua

Arguments

* armendpoint

Azure Resource Manager endpoint of your Azure Stack Hub environment. The Azure Stack Hub convention is that the name of the Azure Resource Manager endpoint is in the format https://adminmanagement.{domain-name}. For example, for the Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK), if the domain name is local.azurestack.external, then the Resource Manager endpoint is https://adminmanagement.local.azurestack.external.

* subId

Subscription ID of the user who makes the call.

* Etc.

Box 2: Get-AzsSubscriberUsage

Retrieve usage information

PowerShell

To generate the usage data, you should have resources that are running and actively using the system; for example, an active virtual machine (VM), or a storage account containing some data. If you're not sure whether you have any resources running in the Azure Stack Hub Marketplace, deploy a VM, and verify the VM monitoring blade to make sure it's running. Use the following PowerShell cmdlets to view the usage data:

• Install PowerShell for Azure Stack Hub.

• Configure the Azure Stack Hub user or the Azure Stack Hub operator PowerShell environment.

• To retrieve the usage data, call the Get-AzsSubscriberUsage PowerShell cmdlet:

Get-AzsSubscriberUsage -ReportedStartTime "2017-09-06T00:00:00Z"

Box 1: .\New-OAW.ps1

Create the OAW VM using a script

The following script prepares the virtual machine as the Operator Access Workstation (OAW), which is used to access Microsoft Azure Stack Hub.

• Sign in to the HLH with your credentials.
• Download OAW.zip and extract the files.
• Open an elevated PowerShell session.
• Navigate to the extracted contents of the OAW.zip file.
• Run the New-OAW.ps1 script.

Example: Example: Deploy on HLH using a Microsoft Image

$oawRootPath = "D:\oawtest"

$securePassword = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter password for Azure Stack OAW's local administrator" -AsSecureString

if (Get-ChildItem -Path $oawRootPath -Recurse | Get-Item -Stream Zone* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object FileName)

{ Write-Host "Execution failed, unblock the script files first" }

else { .\New-OAW.ps1 -LocalAdministratorPassword $securePassword }

Syntax:

New-OAW

-LocalAdministratorPassword `

-IPAddress `

-SubnetMask `

-DefaultGateway `

-DNS `

-TimeServer `

[-AzureStackCertificatePath ] `

[-AzSStampInfoFilePath ] `

[-CertificatePassword ] `

[-ERCSVMIP ] `

[-ImageFilePath ] `

[-VirtualMachineName ] `

[-VirtualMachineMemory ] `

[-VirtualProcessorCount ] `

[-VirtualMachineDiffDiskPath ] `

[-PhysicalAdapterMACAddress ] `

[-VirtualSwitchName ] `

[-ReCreate] `

[-AsJob] `

[-Passthru] `

[-WhatIf] `

[-Confirm] `

[]

Box 2: 10.30.1.253

Deployment virtual machine (DVM) IP address: 10.30.1.253

Note:

Parameter:

IPAddress (Required)

The static IPv4 address to configure TCP/IP on the virtual machine.

Step 1: Notify all the users in the int1 region and schedule a maintenance window.

Step 2: Select the subscription that was used to perform the initial registration.

Note: You need to change the int1 region to use the capacity model.

Change the billing model and registration name of the int1 region.

The int1 region runs a high number of Windows virtual machines that use pay-as-you-use images.

Change billing model, how features are offered, or re-register your instance

This section applies if you want to change the billing model, how features are offered, or you want to re-register your instance. For all of these cases, you call the registration function to set the new values. You don't need to first remove the current registration.

# select the subscription used during the registration

Select-AzSubscription -Subscription ''

# rerun registration with new BillingModel (or same billing model in case of re-registration) but using other parameters values from portal

Set-AzsRegistration -PrivilegedEndpointCredential $YourCloudAdminCredential -PrivilegedEndpoint $YourPrivilegedEndpoint -BillingModel '' -RegistrationName '' -ResourceGroupName ''

Step 3: Run the Set-AzsRegistration cmdlet.

You can use Set-AzsRegistration to register Azure Stack Hub with Azure and enable or disable the offer of items in the marketplace and usage reporting.

To run the cmdlet, you need:

A global Azure subscription of any type.

To be signed in to Azure PowerShell with an account that's an owner or contributor to that subscription.

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Box 1: 4

The infrastructure of the integrated system must be backed up as frequently as possible.

Enable backup for Azure Stack Hub from the administrator portal

The frequency in hours determines how often backups are created. The default value is 12. Scheduler supports a maximum of 12 and a minimum of 4.

Box 2: Azure key vault

The integrated system backups must be retained for 28 days.

Online retention policy. This specifies the time period during which daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups are retained in the Azure Site Recovery vault that's associated with the local MABS instance.

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Instead: Solution: You run the nslookup AzS-ERCS01.azurestack.local command.

Note: nslookup is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System to obtain the mapping between domain name and IP address, or other DNS records.

ASDK architecture, Virtual machine roles

The ASDK offers services using the following VMs hosted on the development kit host computer:

* AzS-ERCS01 - Emergency Recovery Console VM.

E: You can determine whether an update is required for home or guest directories by viewing the directories pane in the admin portal. Each directory listing shows the type of directory. The type can be a home or guest directory, and its status is shown.

F: .Synopsis

Gets the health report of identity application in the Azure Stack home and guest directories

DESCRIPTION

Gets the health report for Azure Stack identity applications in the home directory as well as guest directories of Azure Stack. Any directories with an unhealthy status need to have their permissions updated.

EXAMPLE

$adminResourceManagerEndpoint = "https://adminmanagement.local.azurestack.external "

$homeDirectoryTenantName = ".onmicrosoft.com"

Get-AzsHealthReport -AdminResourceManagerEndpoint $adminResourceManagerEndpoint `

-DirectoryTenantName $homeDirectoryTenantName -Verbose

Examples.

Example 1: Get details for a tenant

PS C:\>Get-AzureADTenantDetail

ObjectId DisplayName VerifiedDomains

-------- ----------- ---------------

85b5ff1e-0402-400c-9e3c-0f9e965325d1 Coho Vineyard & Winery {class VerifiedDomain {..