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AZ-700: How to Diagnose Blocked Traffic on Azure Virtual Machines Using Effective Security Rules?

Struggling with traffic issues in Azure Virtual Machines? Learn how to use Azure Network Watcher’s Effective Security Rules to diagnose and fix blocked traffic in your network security group (NSG) configuration.

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Question

You have a network security group (NSG) assigned to a subnet that contains three Azure Virtual Machines named VM1, VM2, and VM3.
VM1 and VM2 receive traffic as planned. However, VM3 does not receive traffic on the same ports as VM1 and VM2. You suspect that the traffic is blocked.
You need to use Azure Network Watcher to determine whether traffic to VM3 is blocked.
What should you use to diagnose the issue?

A. Effective security rules
B. NSG diagnostics
C. Next hop
D. Packet capture

Answer

A. Effective security rules

Explanation

Effective security rules show all the NSGs associated with the virtual machines and the Network interfaces. This tool shows the NSGs that are in the flow of the traffic and blocks traffic flow.

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