David_Larsen
Jul 28, 2009Employee
Distributed management servers architecture
According to m$ best practices in OpsManager 2007 as I understand, the secondary management servers should never have the Console or management packs directly installed to them. With the F5 management pack we seem to be breaking both of these standards, by first installing the management pack on each server and then installing the console on the secondary management servers.
Can someone explain why doing it this way is better? The console, no matter where it is installed, always talks back to the RMS server. In the tutorials and the doco it looks as if the secondary management server instances are talking to the RMS for everything except the F5 management pack. What are the best practices for handling this and making the management of not only the F5 devices but other devices scalable to an enterprise? I am concerned that there is no failover of management servers if one of them dies then i have to rediscover the F5 from another management server.
The second question is the F5 devices don't show in the device listings for Operations Manager. I would have thought they would be targeted as network devices into the device list or agentless managed.
Thanks for the clarifications.