Azure Provider Details Test

A resource provider is a service that supplies the resources you can deploy and manage through the Resource Manager. Each resource provider offers operations for working with the resources that are deployed. By default, most of the resource providers are automatically registered with the subscription. Alternately, the administrator can also register a resource provider to a subscription. If the resource providers are not available or are not registered with the subscription, the resources corresponding to those resource providers may not be accessible. To avoid this, it is necessary to keep track on the count of resource provides that were registered and those that were not registered. The Azure Provider Details test helps administrators in this regard!

For each subscription on Microsoft Azure cloud, this test reports the total number of resource providers available, the count of the resource providers that are registered and are not registered. In addition, this test also reports the number of resource providers that are unregistered from the subscription. This way, administrators can figure out the resource providers that were unregistered from the subscription and can proactively hide the resources that cannot be accessed without the corresponding resource provider.

Target of the Test: Microsoft Azure

Agent deploying the test: A remote agent

Output of the test: One set of results for each subscription on the target Microsoft Azure being monitored

Configurable parameters for the test

Parameters	Description
Test Period	How often should the test be executed.
Host	The host for which the test is to be configured.
Tenant ID	Specify the Directory ID of the Azure Active Directory that is associated with the subscription of the target Microsoft Azure. To know how to determine the Directory ID, refer to Pre-Requisites for Monitoring Microsoft Azure (ARM).
Client ID and Client Password	The eG agent communicates with the target Microsoft Azure using JAVA API calls. To collect the required metrics, the eG agent requires an Access token in the form of an Application ID and the client secret value. To know more about determining the Application ID and the key refer to Broad Steps to Determine the Tenant ID and the Access Token. Specify the Application ID of the created Web Application in the Client ID text box and the client secret value in the Client Password text box.
Detailed Diagnosis	To make diagnosis more efficient and accurate, the eG Enterprise suite embeds an optional detailed diagnostic capability. With this capability, the eG agents can be configured to run detailed, more elaborate tests as and when specific problems are detected. To enable the detailed diagnosis capability of this test for a particular server, choose the On option. To disable the capability, click on the Off option. The option to selectively enable/disable the detailed diagnosis capability will be available only if the following conditions are fulfilled: The eG manager license should allow the detailed diagnosis capability Both the normal and abnormal frequencies configured for the detailed diagnosis measures should not be 0.

Measures reported by the test

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Total providers	Indicates the total number of resource providers to which this subscription can be registered with.	Number
Number of registered providers	Indicates the number of resource providers to which this subscription is registered with.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the names of the resource providers that were registered for each subscription.
Number of not registered providers	Indicates the number of resource providers to which this subscription is not registered with.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the names of the resource providers that were not registered with each subscription.
Number of registering providers	Indicates the number of resource providers to which this subscription is currently being registered.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the resource providers that were being registered with each subscription.
Number of unregistered providers	Indicates the number of resource providers from which this subscription is unregistered.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the resource providers that were unregistered with each subscription.
Number of unregistering providers	Indicates the number of resource providers from which this subscription is currently being unregistered.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the number of resource providers that were being unregistered from this subscription.