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services: network-watcher
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author: halkazwini
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tags: azure-resource-manager
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# Customer intent: I need to monitor communication between a virtual machine scale set and another VM. If the communication fails, I need to know why, so that I can resolve the problem.
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ms.service: network-watcher
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ms.topic: tutorial
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ms.workload: infrastructure-services
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ms.date: 01/25/2023
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ms.author: halkazwini
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# Customer intent: I need to monitor communication between a virtual machine scale set and another VM. If the communication fails, I need to know why, so that I can resolve the problem.
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# Tutorial: Monitor network communication between two virtual machine scale sets using the Azure portal
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Successful communication between a virtual machine scale set and an another endpoint, such as virtual machine (VM), can be critical for your organization. Sometimes, the introduction of configuration changes can break communication. In this tutorial, you learn how to:
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Successful communication between a virtual machine scale set and another endpoint, such as virtual machine (VM), can be critical for your organization. Sometimes, the introduction of configuration changes can break communication.
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In this tutorial, you learn how to:
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> [!div class="checklist"]
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> * Create a virtual machine scale set and a VM.
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> As of July 1, 2021, you can't add new connection monitors in Connection monitor (classic) but you can continue to use earlier versions that were created prior to that date. To minimize service disruption to your current workloads, [migrate from Connection monitor (classic) to the latest Connection monitor](migrate-to-connection-monitor-from-connection-monitor-classic.md) in Azure Network Watcher before February 29, 2024.
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Before you begin, if you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/?WT.mc_id=A261C142F).
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If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a [free account](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/?WT.mc_id=A261C142F) before you begin.
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## Prerequisites
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* An Azure subscription
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## Sign in to Azure
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[Azure Load Balancer](../load-balancer/load-balancer-overview.md) distributes incoming traffic among healthy virtual machine instances.
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First, create a public standard load balancer by using the Azure portal. The name and public IP address you create are automatically configured as the load balancer's front end.
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First, create a public standard load balancer using the Azure portal. The name and public IP address you create are automatically configured as the load balancer's front end.
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1. In the search box, type **load balancer** and then, under **Marketplace** in the search results, select **Load balancer**.
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1. In the search box, enter **load balancer** and then, under **Marketplace** in the search results, select **Load balancer**.
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1. On the **Basics** pane of the **Create load balancer** page, do the following:
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1. Select **Review + create**.
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1. After it passes validation, select **Create**.
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### Create a virtual machine scale set
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You can deploy a scale set with a Windows Server image or Linux images such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, or SLES.
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1. Type **Scale set** in the search box. In the results, under **Marketplace**, select **Virtual machine scale sets**.
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1. On the **Virtual machine scale sets** pane, select **Create**.
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The **Create a virtual machine scale set** page opens.
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1. On the **Virtual machine scale sets** pane, select **Create**. The **Create a virtual machine scale set** page opens.
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1. On the **Basics** pane, under **Project details**, ensure that the correct subscription is selected, and then select **myVMSSResourceGroup** in the resource group list.
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1. For **Name**, type **myScaleSet**.
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When you select a virtual network, subnet, a single VM or a virtual machine scale set the corresponding resource ID is set as the endpoint. By default, all VMs in the selected virtual network or subnet participate in monitoring. To reduce the scope, either select specific subnets or agents or change the value of the scope property.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/connection-monitor-2-preview/add-sources-1.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the 'Add Sources' pane and the Azure endpoints, including the 'VMSS' pane, in Connection monitor.":::
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:::image type="content" source="./media/connection-monitor-2-preview/add-sources-1.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the 'Add Sources' pane and the Azure endpoints, including the 'virtual machine scale set' pane, in Connection monitor.":::
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* To choose on-premises agents, select the **Non–Azure endpoints** tab. By default, agents are grouped into workspaces by region. All these workspaces have the Network Performance Monitor configured.
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Currently, Connection monitor provides default coverage for the scale set instances that are selected as endpoints. This means that only a default percentage of all the added scale set instances would be randomly selected to monitor connectivity from the scale set to the endpoint.
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As a best practice, to avoid loss of data because of a downscaling of instances, we recommend that you select *all* instances in a scale set while you're creating a test group, instead of selecting a particular few for monitoring your endpoints.
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As a best practice, to avoid loss of data due to downscaling of instances, we recommend that you select *all* instances in a scale set while you're creating a test group, instead of selecting a particular few for monitoring your endpoints.
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## Scale limits
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