Administration

This section deals with the management of core Operations Manager activities, such as creating management packs, subscriptions, agent-managed and agentless-managed entities, and many more.

Management servers

The management server is the main part of the Operations Manager architecture. It helps the administrator to configure and administrate the Operations Manager environment. It communicates with the agents and databases in the Operations Manager environment.

Each management group will have multiple management servers for high availability and load balance. A combination of multiple management servers will form a resource pool. When any management server resource pool fails, other management servers pick up the load to provide continuous service.

We can get the properties of any management server in the Operations Manager environment using the Get-SCOMManagementServer cmdlet. We are required to provide the name of the server as the parameter to the cmdlet:

Get-SCOMManagementServer...