Azure Automation Hybrid Worker behind a Firewall / Proxy
One nice feature of Azure Automation is the Hybrid Worker. With the Hybrid Worker you can execute Runbooks inside your onPremise infrastructure. according to the official documentation or at John Hennen’s post, you have to open your FireWall for outbound traffic to *.cloudapp.net for this ports 443,9354,30000-30199.
When i told this requirement to our security-team, they weren’t very enthusiastic about the wildcard rule for *.cloudapp.net. So i have to search another solution.
To configure the Microsoft Monitoring Agent to use your proxy services, go to the Control Panel → System and Security → Microsoft Monitoring Agent and then go to the Proxy Settings tab: