SCOM agent removal

Question

Hi, I have connected SCOM agents (already connected to Management Group with Management Server in their domain) to Management Group in other forest (no trust in place) using SCOM Gateway Server. Now I'd like to remove SCOM agents from Management Group in their domain so I can later uninstall other Management Group components (in SCOM agents' domain). Having deleted SCOM agent of one server in SCOM console (previously I had removed connection to Management Group in its domain) I saw it back a few minutes later (healthy as before deletion).

Why is this happening? If I uninstall SCOM agent (instead of deleting), that will obviously do what it says - but my idea is to keep existing SCOM agents connected only to Management Group in other forest and not showing up in Management Group in their domain.

Answer 1

Hi,

It seems we need to change the management group of the agents. We can try the following PowerShell script (in the agent machine) to see if it helps.

    $mma1 = New-Object -ComObject 'AgentConfigManager.MgmtSvcCfg'  
    $mma1.RemoveManagementGroup('test02')  
    if ($? -eq 0)  
    {  
        write-host "management group test02 was removed!"  
    }  
    $mma1.AddManagementGroup('test03' , 'om22.sc.com' , 5723)   
    if ($? -eq 0)  
    {  
        write-host "management group test03 was added!"  
    }  
    $mma1.ReloadConfiguration()  

Regards,

Alex