Resource Pools

We're going through a design review of our SCOM infrastructure and we're trying to understand how resource pools work. We have the 3 initial resource pools populated with the MS(rmse) and another MS for failover. We also have another resource pool for network devices with 3 MS's in it. As per the documentation we have set the 3 initial Resource pools to manual and removed the 3 network MS servers from them. We're trying to understand if the network devices Management servers make use of any of the 3 initial resource pool servers. (i.e. for availability/health aggregation do the network Management servers contact the servers in the All Management Servers pool?) If we were to create a new windows Resource pool and move the existing initial servers to it(leaving 3 initial resource pools empty) would the infrastructure still function correctly?

Any information would be much appreciated.

Thanks 

July 22nd, 2015 9:25pm

A resource pool is a collection of management servers used to distribute work amongst themselves and take over work from a failed member.  By deafult, SCOM has three built-in Resource pool with name All Management Servers Resource Pool, Notifications Resource Pool and AD Assignment Resource Pool.
A resource pool can be defined to include management servers which will provide monitoring for network devices to provide failover when a management server is offline. Network devices are discovered from a specific management server or gateway server but report to a resource pool.
You can create your custom resource pool which is used to monitor network device and add management server into it. It is not required to remove the mangement server from exisitng resource pool.

For deatil, pls. refer to
http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/09/04/opsmgr-scom-resources-pools-what-they-do-not-do-sysctr/
Roger

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July 22nd, 2015 11:13pm

Thanks for the information but that didn't exactly answer my question. If the 3 initial resource pools are empty(have moved the Management Servers to another seperate Resource Pool) will the infrastructure function correctly? 

July 23rd, 2015 1:25pm

Thanks for the information but that didn't exactly answer my question. If the 3 initial resource pools are empty(have moved the Management Servers to another seperate Resource Pool) will the infrastructure function correctly? 

Hi, if All Management Servers Resource Pool is empty SCOM won't work correctly as many workflows targeted that pool are stopped.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2014/01/24/targeting-workflows-to-resource-pools.aspx

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July 23rd, 2015 2:32pm

Thanks for the information but that didn't exactly answer my question. If the 3 initial resource pools are empty(have moved the Management Servers to another seperate Resource Pool) will the infrastructure function correctly? 


No.  It will affect SCOm workflow

1) All Management Servers Resource Pool   Most RMS specific instances and workflows target on this reource pool.
2) Notifications Resource Pool The Alert Subscription Service instance target to this pool. 
3) AD Assignment Resource Pool The AD Integration workflows target to this pool.


Roger

July 23rd, 2015 11:16pm

OK so if I create a separate resource pool for lets say Unix Devices, the Unix devices in the separate resource pool (and not in any of the 3 initial pools) still make use and place load on the All Managements Servers, Notifications Pools..etc even though they're not members of those initial pools? What workflows does the Unix Servers Resource pool handle for Unix devices ?

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July 25th, 2015 6:22am

Hi, 

then you can check which Top Level Managed Entities (TLMEs) the resource pool hosts, then get workflows that targets these entities

here you can get a script

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2015/04/21/free-ebook-microsoft-system-center-operations-manager-field-experience.aspx

July 25th, 2015 8:43am

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