Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Agent Proxy Configuration
Operations Manager 2012 has a variety of security measures built in to the product to prevent security breaches. One measure in particular is the prevention of impersonation of one agent by another. That is, an agent SERVER1 cannot insert operations data into the database about a domain controller DC1. This could constitute a security violation, where SERVER1 could maliciously generate fraudulent emergencies by making it appear that DC1 was having operational issues.
Although this is normally a good feature, this can be a problem if, in fact, SERVER1 is monitoring DC1 from a client perspective. The Operations Manager infrastructure would reject any information presented about DC1 by SERVER1. When this occurs, the system ...
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