Failure Recovery Scenarios for the Root Management Server

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2, Operations Manager 2007 SP1

This topic describes three failure recovery scenarios for the root management server.

These scenarios involve promoting a management server to replace a failed root management server. In all cases, a management server must be present in the management group prior to the failure of the RMS in order to be promoted to be the RMS.

Root Management Server Recovery

To use any of these scenarios, you must either have a back up of the root management server encryption key or the root management server must be available to allow backing up of the encryption key.

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  • If the root management server fails, promote another management server to be the root management server.

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  • If the root management server fails, promote another management server to be the root management server. After the failed computer is available again, you have the option of promoting it back to being the root management server.

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  • If the root management server fails, promote another management server to be the root management server. In the future, you can set up a new management server and promote it to be the root management server.

Use the How to Promote a Management Server to a Root Management Server Role in Operations Manager 2007 procedure to promote a management server to be the root management server. You can apply this procedure to all three scenarios.

See Also

Tasks

How to Promote a Management Server to a Root Management Server Role in Operations Manager 2007
How to Back Up the Root Management Server Encryption Key

Other Resources

The Root Management Server encryption key is unavailable after you replace or reinstall the Root Management Server server in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007