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From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf
Of Marco Shaw
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:19 PM
To: msmom@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [msmom] MOM/SCOM 1.0 question

"Agent" is defined well here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735400.aspx

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:09 PM, hov11 wrote:
> Thank you Marco... and to further clarify, is the agent a
> 'mini-application'?
>
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> Behalf Of Marco Shaw
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: [msmom] MOM/SCOM 1.0 question
>
> When dealing with agent-based monitoring (vs agentless monitoring),
> you use one agent per device.  Assuming you're talking about a Windows
> Server device or computer, it will have one agent on that system,
> regardless of whether that computer runs multiple applications like
> AD, IIS, SQL, etc.
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:46 PM, hov11 wrote:
>> Sorry for the very basic question, but believe it or not, I cannot
>> find it anywhere. The question that I need clarified is regarding the
term 'agent'
>> as used in the MOM/SCOM arena.
>>
>>
>>
>> What exactly is an agent and is it specific for each management pack
>> or
> does
>> one agent do the work for multiple management packs? Thus, would 1000
>> servers only have 1000 agents doing multiple monitoring, i.e., OS,
>> SQL,
> IIS
>> or would the 1000 servers have 3000 agents for the same group, one
>> agent
> per
>> OS, SQL, and IIS respectively?
>>
>>
>>
>> Makes me wonder what the heck I know..
>>
>>
>>
>> TIA
>>
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