Re: Management Points
- From: Kim Oppalfens <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:34:20 +0200
In article <9A03B6A2-502F-409D-BAF0-5484E7497948@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> We are implementing SMS 2003 in a multi-site configuration. At the moment we
> have a central site and a remote office installed. The remote office has a
> server which has been installed as a secondary site. It has the following
> roles installed - Client Access Point, Component Server, Site Server,
> Management Point and distribution Point. I have read that when advanced
> clients are installed at the secondary site they are managed by a primary
> site only, in this case the central site. Is there any way I can asign the
> Advanced clients to their correct site, ie the secondary. I have heard a
> "Proxy Management Point" being talked about but am a little confused. Does
> this Proxy allow SMS Advanced clients to be managed by its local server even
> if it is a secondary site? If so how do I install this proxy, is just
> activating the server role enough?
>
> If this cant be done what would be the best way to proceed? The structure
> of the offices is this - Head Office, Remote Sites and Sub-Offices, in effect
> three tiers. Obviously the Head Office will be the Central Site with a
> Primary Site Installed, would it be advisable for the Remote Sites to have
> Primary Child Site Servers Installed and the Sub Offices to have Secondary
> Site Servers. Do the sub-office need SMS servers?, could the clients be
> managed by and have application deployed by the servers at the Remote sites?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
You are right in that advanced clients can only be assigned to primary
sites.
This isn't as bad as it looks though, actually I usually state this is
good news.
What does being assigned to the primary site mean:
1) Clients will contact the management point in their assigned site, for
a list of policies that are assigned to them.
This is a list of Unique identifiers that tell a client which policies
apply to them.
2) Clients will retrieve the content body of these policies from their
proxy management point (if they are located in a secondary site that is
a child site from their assigned primary site, and assuming the
secondary site has a management point installed).
3) Clients will use their proxy management point to report inventory,
software metering reports and status messages.
4) Clients will ask their proxy management point for a local
distribution point, and will use that distribution point when available.
So in essence, clients download a policy list from the assigned site
every hour by default, this list shouldn't be larger than a couple of
kilobytes.
In return you get centralized configuration, no need to configure client
agent settings in 300+ secondary sites anymore.
--
Kim Oppalfens
MVP SMS
Computacenter Belgium
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