Distributed deployment of Operations Manager

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Important

This version of Operations Manager has reached the end of support. We recommend you to upgrade to Operations Manager 2022.

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: