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You deploy a multi-server installation of System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, Operations Manager is not integrated with Active Directory. You Plan to deploy the Operation Manager agent to each m
The correct answer is D. From the Administration workspace, run the Discovery Wizard. From the Advanced computer. To assign deployed agents to specific management servers based on Active Directory attributes while minimizing effort, the Discovery Wizard's Advanced computer discovery option enables AD-based filtering without requiring full AD integration.
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You deploy a multi-server installation of System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, Operations Manager is not integrated with Active Directory. You Plan to deploy the Operation Manager agent to each member servers in the domain. You need to ensure that once the agent are deployed, the servers will be managed by specific management servers based on the Managed by Attribute Active Directory. The solution must minimize administrative effort. What should you do?
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- AFrom the Administration workspace, run the Discovery Wizard and select the Automatic computer
- BFrom the Administration workspace, run the Agent Assignment and Failover Wizard. Specify an
- CFrom the Authoring workspace, create a new event-based collection rule.
- DFrom the Administration workspace, run the Discovery Wizard. From the Advanced computer
- EFrom the Authoring workspace, create a new probe-based collection rule.
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Why each option
To assign deployed agents to specific management servers based on Active Directory attributes while minimizing effort, the Discovery Wizard's Advanced computer discovery option enables AD-based filtering without requiring full AD integration.
Automatic computer discovery does not filter by AD attributes and discovers all accessible computers indiscriminately, making targeted assignment of servers to specific management servers based on AD criteria impossible.
The Agent Assignment and Failover Wizard requires Active Directory integration to already be enabled in Operations Manager before it can create AD-based assignment rules; since AD integration is not configured, this wizard cannot fulfill the requirement.
An event-based collection rule collects Windows event log data for monitoring and alerting purposes and has no capability to control which management server is responsible for managing a given agent.
The Discovery Wizard's Advanced computer discovery mode allows you to browse Active Directory and filter target computers by attributes such as OU membership or the 'Managed By' attribute, then assign the discovered computers to a designated management server. This approach leverages existing AD structure to achieve precise agent-to-management-server assignment without requiring the AD integration feature to be fully configured in Operations Manager, minimizing administrative overhead.
A probe-based collection rule runs scripts or WMI queries to gather performance or state data and cannot be used to configure agent-to-management-server assignment relationships.
Concept tested: SCOM agent assignment to management servers using AD attributes
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/manage-deploy-windows-agent-manually?view=sc-om-2022
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