The Management Server Component

Optionally, additional management servers can be added for redundancy and scalability. Agents communicate with the management server to deliver operational data and pull down new monitoring rules.

The management server in 2012 is similar to the Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 management server. It manages communication with managed agents and forwards events and performance data to the operations database. The management server also supports agentless monitoring of managed systems, and it provides support for audit collection. Management servers now write directly to the operations database and data warehouse, which eliminates the need to transfer data from one database to another. This arrangement enables near-real-time ...

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