Chapter 10

Working with Complex Environments

Management tasks often involve more than one site and could even involve multiple companies (or companies that have merged into a single entity). As you add different management scenarios, the management environment becomes more complex. You no longer have a single, discrete system to consider. In fact, the environment could include third-party solutions.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to:

  • Determine whether you really need multihoming
  • Create an administrator hierarchy
  • Perform the multihomed agent installation
  • Create connected management groups
  • Add third-party solutions

Working with Multihoming Agents

As mentioned in the “Multihomed Agents” section of Chapter 4, the most common reason to use ...

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