Configuring Network Watcher
Now that you understand what Network Watcher is, we will explore in the following sections how to configure and use the various components available to the service.
Network resource monitoring
In this demonstration, we are going to monitor the network on VMs. For this demonstration, create three Windows Server 2016 data center VMs inside one VNet. We can use these VMs for monitoring. Before we are able to monitor the network using network resource monitoring, we need to install the Network Watcher agent on the three VMs. After that, we are going to inspect the network traffic.
Installing the Network Watcher agent
You will set up three VMs labeled networkwatcher1
, networkwatcher2
, and networkwatcher3
. To install the Network Watcher agent on a VM in Azure, take the following steps:
- Navigate to the Azure portal by opening https://portal.azure.com/.
- Deploy a new resource group named
AZ104-NetworkWatcher
and a new VM deployed as follows...