There is “something” in our subscription which is automatically powering on VM’s in some test resource groups early in the morning. I want to turn this off- but can’t figure out what is making them power up…
I don’t believe it is coming from an automation account. When I look into the Activity log of an affected VM the event “Start Virtual Machine” is initiated by (changed for privacy) “nameofcompany-nameofProduct-subscriptionIDhere” format. Automation run-as accounts have a format of “nameofAutomationAccount-lotsOfRandomLetters”. None of our automation accounts have run-as accounts that match what this event is being started by.
There are no policies that are running that could do this either. I’ve gone through our automation accounts and there are no schedules that match with the time they are being powered up.
Can someone point out where else I can look to figure it out and disable it? I have a start-stop solution which systematically starts vm’s at different times in the morning and this mysterious process is messing it up by waking my vms up before I want them to!
thanks