Onboard a Windows server

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To onboard your on-premises machines by using the Azure portal, do this procedure.

  1. Select Windows servers.

    Displays a screenshot of the controls for selecting Windows Servers.

    When you add a Windows server, you need to get the information on the Agents management page and download the appropriate agent file (32 bit or 64 bit).

  2. Select the Download Windows Agent link that's applicable to your computer processor type to download the setup file.

  3. From the Agents management page, copy the Workspace ID and Primary Key values into Notepad.

  4. Copy the downloaded setup file to the target computer and run it.

  5. Follow the installation wizard (select Next > I Agree > Next > Next).

  6. On the Azure Log Analytics page, paste the Workspace ID and Primary Key values that you copied into Notepad.

  7. If the computer should report to a Log Analytics workspace in the Azure Government cloud, select Azure US Government from the Azure Cloud dropdown list.

  8. If the computer needs to communicate through a proxy server to the Log Analytics service, select Advanced. Then provide the URL and port number of the proxy server.

  9. When you finish entering all of the configuration settings, select Next.

  10. On the Ready to Install page, review the settings to be applied and select Install.

  11. On the Configuration completed successfully page, select Finish.

When the process is complete, Microsoft Monitoring agent appears in Control Panel. You can review your configuration there and verify that the agent is connected.