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The documentation demonstrates a Windows bias by providing only PowerShell-based examples and instructions for managing dependency analysis (enabling/disabling, exporting data), with no equivalent CLI or scripting guidance for Linux users. Windows terminology and tools (PowerShell, Connect-AzAccount, select-azsubscription) are used exclusively, and Windows credential requirements are described before Linux. There is no mention of Bash, Azure CLI, or Linux-native automation, making it harder for Linux administrators to follow or automate these tasks.
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    Connect-AzAccount
    
## Visualize network connections in Power BI

Azure Migrate offers a Power BI template that you can use to visualize network connections of many servers at once, and filter by process and server. To visualize, load the Power BI with dependency data as per the below instructions.

### Log in to Azure

1. Log in to your Azure subscription using the Connect-AzAccount cmdlet.

    
    Connect-AzAccount -EnvironmentName AzureUSGovernment
    
    select-azsubscription -subscription "Contoso Demo Subscription"
    
    Install-Module .\AzMig.Dependencies
    
    Get-AzMigDiscoveredVMwareVMs -ResourceGroupName "ContosoDemoRG" -ProjectName "ContosoDemoProject" -OutputCsvFile "ContosoDemo_VMs.csv" [-AutoEnabledDepMap]
    
    Get-AzMigDiscoveredVMwareVMs -ResourceGroupName "ContosoDemoRG" -ProjectName "ContosoDemoProject" -Filter @{"Dependencies"="Enabled"} -OutputCsvFile "ContosoDemo_VMs.csv" [-AutoEnabledDepMap]
    
   Get-AzMigDiscoveredVMwareVMs -ResourceGroupName "ContosoDemoRG" -ProjectName "ContosoDemoProject" -Filter @{"Dependencies"="Enabled"} -ApplianceName "ContosoApp" -OutputCsvFile "ContosoDemo_VMs.csv" [-AutoEnabledDepMap]

### Enable dependency data collection

You may need to enable dependency analysis on one or more servers to restart dependency data collection from servers that you disabled using PowerShell module previously.

You need to follow the same steps to export the discovered servers as mentioned above and then import the list of servers you want to enable.

   In the following example, dependency analysis is being enabled on the list of servers in the input file ContosoDemo_VMs_Enable.csv.


3. Install the AzMig.Dependencies PowerShell module