Happy Holidays! Here’s a quick post to share some code that will inventory Azure VMs, install the AMA if necessary, and then assign a DCR to the VM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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# Ensure you're logged in to Azure\nConnect-AzAccount\n\n# Define the Data Collection Rule (DCR) resource ID\n$dcrResourceId = "<Your-DCR-Resource-ID>"\n\n# Get all VMs in the subscription\n$vms = Get-AzVM\n\n# Use ForEach-Object with -Parallel to process VMs concurrently\n$vms | ForEach-Object -Parallel {\n $vm = $_\n $osType = $vm.StorageProfile.OsDisk.OsType\n $extensionName = if ($osType -eq "Windows") { "AzureMonitorWindowsAgent" } else { "AzureMonitorLinuxAgent" }\n $extensionPublisher = "Microsoft.Azure.Monitor"\n $vmResourceId = "\/subscriptions\/$using:vm.SubscriptionId\/resourceGroups\/$using:vm.ResourceGroupName\/providers\/Microsoft.Compute\/virtualMachines\/$using:vm.Name"\n\n try {\n # Check if the Azure Monitor Agent extension is installed\n $amaExtension = Get-AzVMExtension -ResourceGroupName $using:vm.ResourceGroupName -VMName $using:vm.Name -Name $extensionName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue\n\n if (-not $amaExtension) {\n try {\n # Install the Azure Monitor Agent extension\n Set-AzVMExtension -ResourceGroupName $using:vm.ResourceGroupName -VMName $using:vm.Name -Name $extensionName -Publisher $extensionPublisher -ExtensionType $extensionName -TypeHandlerVersion "1.0" -Location $using:vm.Location\n Write-Host "Installed Azure Monitor Agent on $($using:vm.Name)"\n } catch {\n Write-Host "Failed to install Azure Monitor Agent on $($using:vm.Name): $_"\n }\n } else {\n Write-Host "Azure Monitor Agent is already installed on $($using:vm.Name)"\n }\n } catch {\n Write-Host "Error checking Azure Monitor Agent on $($using:vm.Name): $_"\n }\n\n try {\n # Assign the DCR to the VM\n $settings = @{ "dataCollectionRuleResourceIds" = @($using:dcrResourceId) }\n Set-AzVMExtension -ResourceGroupName $using:vm.ResourceGroupName -VMName $using:vm.Name -Name "AzureMonitorVmExtension" -Publisher $extensionPublisher -ExtensionType $extensionName -Settings $settings -Location $using:vm.Location\n Write-Host "Assigned DCR to $($using:vm.Name)"\n } catch {\n Write-Host "Failed to assign DCR to $($using:vm.Name): $_"\n }\n} -ThrottleLimit 5 # Adjust the ThrottleLimit as necessary\n<\/pre><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays! Here’s a quick post to share some code that will inventory Azure VMs, install the AMA if necessary, and then assign a DCR to the VM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,27,16],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-azure","tag-azure-monitor","tag-powershell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/draith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/draith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/draith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/draith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/draith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/draith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}