Distributed deployment of Operations Manager
The distributed management group installation will form the foundation of 99 percent of Operations Manager deployments. It allows for the distribution of features and services across multiple servers to allow for scalability. It can include all Operations Manager server roles and supports the monitoring of devices across trust boundaries by using the gateway server.
System Center - Operations Manager features
This configuration supports all System Center - Operations Manager features:
Monitoring and alerting, targeted for up to 15,000 agents
Monitoring across trust boundaries
Reporting
Audit collection
Agentless exception management
Agent failover between management servers
Gateway failover between management servers
Clustering high availability for database roles
Operations Manager server roles
This configuration supports all Operations Manager server roles:
Audit Collection Services (ACS) collector
ACS database
ACS forwarder (on agent-managed devices)
Gateway server
Management server
Operational database
Operations console
Operations Manager Reporting server
Reporting data warehouse database
Web console server
This section of the Deployment Guide contains the following topics: