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Distributed deployment of Operations Manager

Most System Center Operations Manager deployments use a distributed installation of management groups. This installation enhances scalability by distributing features and services across multiple servers. A distributed deployment can include all Operations Manager server roles. By using the gateway server, it supports monitoring devices across trust boundaries.

Operations Manager features

This configuration supports all 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
  • Reporting server
  • Reporting data warehouse database
  • Web console server

This section of the deployment guide contains the following topics: