This post will cover the process of adding untrusted servers into your SCOM 2012 R2 environment. This guide is not for adding servers via a Gateway Server, this guide will show you how to add servers on the same network as the SCOM Management Servers but not necessarily trusted by the domain. First, you need …
I was recently at a client who wanted to monitor a bunch of untrusted servers. These servers were not in their new Active Directory domain, many of them, were in fact not in any domain. And they were not in any DMZ, so the Management Servers could see them just fine. Thus no gateway(s) were …
To monitor untrusted servers or to use a Gateway server in SCOM we need a certificate to successfully communicate with these servers. So, we need to create one specifically for this purpose. The certificate we will create in this blog works with both unstrusted servers not in a DMZ. As well as with SCOM Gateways …