Azure Resource Groups Test

A resource is a manageable item that is available through Azure. A few common resources are a virtual machine, storage account, web app, database, virtual network etc. A resource group is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution. The resource group can include all the resources for the solution, or only those resources that the administrator wants to manage as a group. The resources in the resource group share the same lifecycle i.e., they are deployed, updated and deleted together. The Azure ARM can maintain multiple resource groups and though a resource can be migrated from one resource group to another the resource cannot exist in more than one group at a time. Often, failure of a resource group leads to the inaccessibility of the resources in that group. To avoid this, it is necessary to monitor the state of the resource groups round the clock! The Azure Resource Groups test helps in this regard!

This test auto-discovers the resource groups in a Microsoft Azure Resource Manager and reveals the current state of each resource group. This test also reveals the number of resources in each of the resource group. Using this test, administrators can figure out the exact resources residing in the resource groups and the location of those resources.

Target of the Test: Microsoft Azure

Agent deploying the test: A remote agent

Output of the test: One set of results for each Subscription ID:Resource group of 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 made by the test:

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Status	Indicates the current state of this resource group.		The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below: Measure Value Numeric Value Succeeded 1 Unknown 0 Note: By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the current state of this resource group. The graph of this measure however, represents the status of a server using the numeric equivalents only i.e., 0 or 1.
Number of resources	Indicates the number of resources in this resource group.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the name of each resource in the resource group, the type of the resource and the location of the resource.