Configure Agent Failover to Multiple Gateway Servers

Important

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

If you've deployed multiple gateway servers in a domain that doesn't have a trust relationship established with the domain that the rest of the management group is in, you can configure agents to utilize those gateway servers as necessary. To do this, you must use the Operations Manager Shell to configure an agent to fail over to multiple gateway servers. The commands can be run from any command shell in the management group.

Important

When changing the primary management server of an agent, allow the agent to connect to its new primary management server before making changes to its failover server. Allowing the agent to get current topology information from the new primary management server prevents the agent from losing communication with all management servers.

Configure agent failover to multiple gateway servers

Follow these steps to configure agent failover to multiple gateway servers:

1. Sign in to the computer with an account that is a member of the Administrators group.

2. Select Start, select All Programs, select Microsoft System Center 2012, select Operations Manager, and then select Operations Manager Shell.

3. In Operations Manager Shell, run the following command:

   $primaryMS = Get-SCOMManagementServer -Name "<name of primary server>"  
   $failoverMS = Get-SCOMManagementServer -Name "<name of 1st failover>","<name of 2nd failover>",...,"<name of nth failover>"  
   $agent = Get-SCOMAgent -Name "<name of agent>"  
   
   Set-SCOMParentManagementServer -Agent $agent -PrimaryServer $primaryMS  
   Set-SCOMParentManagementServer -Agent $agent -FailoverServer $failoverMS  
   
   

   For help with the Set-SCOMParentManagementServer command, enter the following in the command shell window:

   Get-help Set-SCOMParentManagementServer -full  
   

Next steps

To understand how to manage the configuration settings of a Windows agent and the options available, review Configuring Windows Agents.