Resource Pools

Resource pools provide fault tolerance for the OpsMgr 2012 management group. However, they are used differently by different managed devices, such as Windows computers, UNIX computers, and network devices.

Windows computers work exactly as they did within OpsMgr 2007 and are assigned a primary management server. The difference with resource pools is that they will failover to management servers within the default resource pool, which is the All Management Servers Resource Pool. All management servers are members of this default resource pool and cannot be removed.

UNIX and Linux computers and network devices function differently. They can be manually assigned to resource pools and will fail over between management servers within ...

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