I am experiencing issues with persistently mounting an Azure file share on a Windows VM.

Question

Despite using the cmdkey utility to save storage account credentials, the file share loses its persistence unexpectedly. Additionally,I am seeking a way to monitor these events through Azure Monitor alerts, specifically to be alerted when the file share loses its persistence, but have found the current monitoring options to be limited to file share throttle and capacity monitoring

Answer 1

While Azure Monitor currently does not support direct alerting on the loss of persistence for Azure file shares, you can leverage Azure Monitor's diagnostic settings for Azure Files to log relevant events and then analyze these logs for patterns or issues that indicate a loss of persistence. You can create a custom solution using Azure Functions or Logic Apps to process these logs and trigger alerts based on your specific conditions. This approach requires setting up diagnostic logging for Azure Files, storing the logs in a suitable storage solution (e.g., Azure Blob Storage), and then processing these logs with your custom solution to identify and alert on loss of persistence events.

Answer 2

To monitor and get alerts when a file share loses its persistence in Azure, you can use Azure Monitor alerts. Azure Monitor alerts can proactively notify you when important conditions are found in your monitoring data. You can set alerts on metrics, logs, and the activity log.

Here are the steps to create an alert for file shares:

1. Go to your storage account in the Azure portal.
2. In the Monitoring section, click Alerts, and then click + New alert rule.
3. Click Edit resource, select the File resource type for the storage account and then click Done. For example, if the storage account name is contoso, select the contoso/file resource.
4. Click Add condition to add a condition.
5. You'll see a list of signals supported for the storage account, select the Availability metric.
6. On the Configure signal logic blade, click the Dimension name drop-down and select File Share.
7. Click the Dimension values drop-down and select the file share(s) that you want to monitor.
8. Define the alert parameters (threshold value, operator, aggregation granularity, and frequency of evaluation) and then click Done.
9. Click Add action groups to add an action group (email, SMS, etc.) to the alert either by selecting an existing action group or creating a new action group.
10. Fill in the Alert details like Alert rule name, Description, and Severity.
11. Click Create alert rule to create the alert.

For more information, you can refer to the following resources:

• Create monitoring alerts for Azure Files
• Monitor Azure Files
• Troubleshoot Azure Files by creating alerts

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Deepanshu