The OMS Log Analytics Forwarder enables customers send data to a central server which has access to the Internet
The OMS Log Analytics Forwarder enables customers send data to a central server which has access to the Internet.
If you have servers in secure enclaves, outbound internet access is going prevent you from participating in cloud services like Azure Opertation Insights or even on-premises log aggregation and analysis with Operations Management Suite.
OMS Log Analytics Forwarder is a HTTP forward proxy that supports HTTP tunneling via HTTP CONNECT command. The Forwarder can handle up to 1000 OMS concurrent connected devices if run on a 4 core CPU, 8GB Windows Server with a 1Gbps network connection.
Note that in order to use the OMS Log Analytics Forwarder, you need to install the OMS agent on the Forwarder Server.