Azure Configuration Management of AWS VMs (Change Tracking) – Part 2

           

In part 1 of this series, I discussed the Inventory tool that is a part of Azure Automation’s config management and how to on-board an AWS VM for management.  In this article, I will cover Change Tracking.  With Inventory, you get a report on the Windows files, registry and services, as well installed software for the machines being monitored.  However, Change Tracking takes it a step further and provides a notification whenever there is a change to anything that’s being tracked on the machine.  It also provides the capability to perform queries against the change logs.  Let’s take a look and see how it works.

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