SCOM 2012 Multihomed Agents

In this article, i will describe where you can find "multihoming" for SCOM.

Multihoming allow you to have a SCOM agent manage by different Management Groups.

A example, if you plan to install SCOM 2012 R2 to replace your SCOM 2007 R2, you can keep both version in parallel. Alert will be submitted on each Management Group.

In this scenario, i have a SCOM 2007 R2 and SCOM 2012 R2.

I install agent using SCOM 2007 R2 and SCOM 2012 R2.

To see if it works, on the server where agent is installed, click C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\AgentControlPanel.exe

Here you will see both Management Groups.

For example, if you don't wish to receive alerts from this agent on SCOM 2007, delete it.

This action will restart the agent.

More information : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc180900.aspx