Discovering Computers and Deploying MOM Agents

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This chapter describes the process of discovering computers and deploying MOM agents to manage those computers. This chapter provides instructions for deploying agents remotely by using the MOM Administrator console, and manually by using the Agent Setup Wizard.

Document Revisions

The following table summarizes the revisions that have been made to this document.

Revisions, May 2005

Section

New or Updated

Title

Description

Overview of the Agent Deployment Process

Updated

Creating Computer Discovery Rules

New information about agentless managed computers.

This chapter does not include:

  • Instructions for upgrading MOM agents. For information about upgrading agents, see Chapter 10, "Upgrading to MOM 2005."

  • Deploying agents under the following conditions, for these scenarios, see Chapter 7 "Deploying MOM 2005 in Advanced Environments":

    • Clustered servers

    • Computers across multiple non-trusted domains

    • Computers beyond firewalls

    • Computers across slow links

    • Computers in workgroups

    • Proxy-managed computers

Important

    The MOM 2005 agent always runs in the English locale.

MOM 2005 agents cannot be installed on Windows NT 4.0. To monitor these computers, you must use agentless management mode.

In This Chapter

Before You Begin

Before you begin deploying MOM, review the key concepts of MOM and your deployment design and planning documents. Areas to review include:

  • The MOM 2005 release notes to identify any changes that could affect planning for a new deployment (for example, performance and sizing calculations).

  • The Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Security Guide. Refer to this guide to make sure that you understand the security-related requirements and implications of deploying agents on computers across your network.

  • The Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Supported Configurations data sheeton the MOM 2005 CD*.* Refer to this document to make sure that the computers you are deploying agents on meet the minimum requirements and that the number of agents per management group and per Management Server are within the maximums allowed.

Important

    Using MOM 2005 With a Disjointed DNS Namespace.

To discover and push agents using MOM 2005 in a Disjointed DNS Namespace:

  • Using the MOM Agent Install/uninstall wizard, provide Domain\Computername or NetBIOS name format.

  • Using the Create Computer Discovery Rule dialog, provide only the NetBIOS computer name or the Domain name and the NetBIOS computer name for the Domain name and Computer name fields respectively If you attempt to use MOM 2005 over a disjointed DNS namespace.

Note

The following features are not available:

Mutual Authentication (Mutual authentication is supported if the Management Server is in a non-disjointed namespace and agents are in the disjointed namespace)

Push install when using the "Browse" functionality to choose a target computer

Push install when using the DNS FQDN computer name

A "disjointed DNS namespace" is a DNS infrastructure that includes two or more top-level DNS domain names. For more information about this, see "Configuring Name Resolution for Disjointed Namespaces" in the Windows Server 2003 documentation, under Deploying Network Services.