| title | description | services | ms.date | ms.topic | ms.custom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Limit Azure Automation Change Tracking and Inventory deployment scope |
This article tells how to work with scope configurations to limit the scope of a Change Tracking and Inventory deployment. |
automation |
03/04/2020 |
conceptual |
mvc |
This article describes how to work with scope configurations when using the Change Tracking and Inventory feature to deploy changes to your VMs. For more information, see Targeting monitoring solutions in Azure Monitor (Preview).
A scope configuration is a group of one or more saved searches (queries) used to limit the scope of Change Tracking and Inventory to specific computers. The scope configuration is used within the Log Analytics workspace to target the computers to enable. When you add a computer to changes from the feature, the computer is also added to a saved search in the workspace.
To limit the scope for your Change Tracking and Inventory deployment:
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In your Automation account, select Linked Workspace under Related resources.
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Click Go to workspace.
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Select Scope Configurations (Preview) under Workspace Data Sources.
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Select the ellipsis to the right of the
MicrosoftDefaultScopeConfig-ChangeTrackingscope configuration, and click Edit. -
In the editing pane, select Select Computer Groups. The Computer Groups pane shows the saved searches that are used to create the scope configuration. The saved search used by Change Tracking and Inventory is:
Name Category Alias MicrosoftDefaultComputerGroup ChangeTracking ChangeTracking__MicrosoftDefaultComputerGroup -
Select the saved search to view and edit the query used to populate the group. The following image shows the query and its results:
- To work with Change Tracking and Inventory, see Manage Change Tracking and Inventory.
- To troubleshoot general feature issues, see Troubleshoot Change Tracking and Inventory issues.