Hi,
We're trying to setup SCOM as an MSP. We now monitor our customers without AD trust or VPN from the datacenter. Moving to SCOM means we need to deploy gateway servers to the customers. As the Monitoring services we offer is a paid service we try to minimize the licensing costs as much as possible.
From the licensing specs we read;
Operations Manager Gateway Server
- Disk space: %SYSTEMDRIVE% requires at least 1024 MB free hard disk space.
- Server Operating System: must be Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
- Processor Architecture: must be x64.
- Windows PowerShell version: Windows PowerShell version 2.0.
- Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) version: Microsoft Core XML Services 6.0 is required for the management server.
- .NET Framework 4 is required if the Gateway server manages UNIX/Linux agents or network devices.
So Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, but it does not state wat the minimum edition is here. Would a Web Edition work?
Furthermore; Does the gataway server need to be joined to the customers AD? I read somewhere it also works in workgroup environments. If we use a Action Account that is a user in the customers AD, will that allow me not have to add the gataway to the cutomers AD?
Thanks a million!
Best Regards,
Jurgen Verhelst
ez Networking