We are accessing SCOM various ways, Local console, citrix console, squaredup etc. In near future, PS and SDK will be heavily accessed by others than SCOM administrators and i will dedicate a management server for this purpose. The question is, how? Should i decommission the new “SDK server” from all MS resouce pool?
We have an automated solution to balance and approve agents where we can exclude a management server, maybe that’s the best way? Agents will still failover to the “SDK” server.
It uses a Resource Pool defined in SCOM, so the management of server roles is still centralised. Note that the agent’s failover server is also allocated from the same Resource Pool. You’d simply create a Resource Pool that contains all mgmt servers except your SDK servers.
Thank you Richard. I can of course use another RP, but we will have to “reconfigure” runas distribution as well. Maybe failover to a SDK server isn’t that much of a problem… I will have to think some more about this.
Have you also considered load balancing clients across multiple SDK servers? If you have a number of SDK consumers then high availability and load balancing is probably desirable. The thing to watch out for with load balanced SDK servers is setting up your SPNs correctly.
