Discovering Computers and Deploying Agents when Deploying MOM 2005 across Multiple Computers

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Before you begin deploying agents, determine which computers you want MOM to discover and manage with MOM agents.

Important

    Because you are installing the MOM components across multiple computers, you should install a MOM agent on the computer that hosts the MOM database. This enables you to monitor the health and performance of this important computer.

If you plan to have more than one Management Server in your management group, determine which Management Server will be the primary host for each managed computer.

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.

Workload balancing

MOM does not support software-based or hardware-based load balancing. However, if you have multiple Management Servers within a management group, you should balance the workload by distributing the number of managed computers across the Management Servers.

For example, if your MOM management group contains two Management Servers, it is recommended that you use one Management Server as the primary host for half the managed computers and the other Management Server as the primary host for the other half. Unless there are network or configuration issues that would prevent this type of deployment, you can balance agent communications and response traffic between the two Management Servers.