Defining Management Groups

OpsMgr utilizes the concept of management groups to logically separate geographical and organizational boundaries. Management groups allow you to scale the size of OpsMgr architecture or politically organize the administration of OpsMgr.

At a minimum, each management group consists of the following components:

• A management server

• An operations database

• Management agents

• Management consoles

OpsMgr can be scaled to meet the needs of different-sized organizations. For small organizations, all the OpsMgr components can be installed on one server with a single management group. In large organizations, the distribution of OpsMgr components to separate servers allows the organizations to customize and scale their OpsMgr ...

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