Azure Lab Services
An Azure service that is used to set up labs for classrooms, trials, development and testing, and other scenarios.
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Is it possible to ping out to the Internet from Azure lab services VM/Is a Public IP per VM possible?
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Steve Groombridge
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So ping 8.8.8.8 from within the VM doesnt work (browser access to the Internet works). Note I want to ping out from the VM. It appears the issue is the load balancer? (firewall and NSG allow ICMP). Ideally I would just assign each VM in the lab its own public IP address. Is there a way to do this for lab services VMs? If not is there any way to enable ping access to the Internet?
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JimmySalian-2011 41,916 Reputation points2023-06-14T09:33:19.6433333+00:00 Hi Steve,
To allow outbound ICMP traffic on your Azure VM, you will need to create an outbound security rule in the network security group (NSG) associated with your VM's virtual network interface.
Also see this process to assign a Public IP address - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/virtual-network-deploy-static-pip-arm-portal?source=recommendations
Once you assign a IP address you should be able to ping external address.
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Steve Groombridge 5 Reputation points
2023-06-14T09:53:02.4733333+00:00 Thank you for the quick reply. Unfortunately those steps don't work for the https://labs.azure.com/ Azure lab services VMs? (we use those steps currently for VMs in normal Azure but don't see that capability for VMs created in a lab - Microsoft.LabServices/labs.)
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JimmySalian-2011 41,916 Reputation points
2023-06-14T11:08:36.27+00:00 Okay got it now, however Lab virtual machines don't have a public IP address and only have a private IP address. So you will not be able to deploy external access as this is a LAB for students and for training purpose.
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Steve Groombridge 5 Reputation points
2023-06-14T11:20:41.1533333+00:00 The machines do have external access with TCP/UDP is just ICMP being the issue. (one part of the training course we have is to ping 8.8.8.8). If they cant have a public IP each then any other way to allow ICMP through the load balancer would be great.
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vitaly simonovich 30 Reputation points2024-02-26T08:07:57.3566667+00:00 Any update on this issue? I have tools that need to ping out of the lab VM in order to work
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Steve Groombridge 5 Reputation points
2024-02-26T10:47:14.4733333+00:00 As far as I am aware there is still no solution. But I havent actively looked since last year. Perhaps you could look at using a UDP based ping.
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