In Operations Manager, the Gateway server role is primary used for monitoring servers outside the Root Management Servers trusted Domain boundary.  Another popular use of the Gateway role is for performance improvements by placing gateways in sites with poor network connectivity.  Sometimes...

Just a quick tip in case you run into this. When you run the Operations Manager Gateway Approval Tool you may get the following error: "Unhandled Exception: Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Common.DiscoveryDataInvalidRelationshipTargetException: Invalid relationship target specified in the discovery...

Here’s a neat piece of documentation I came across today that was written by one of our top Support Escalation Engineers, Ganesh Babu gnana Sundaram.  If you ever need to reconfigure a Gateway server to communicate with a different Management server then this one’s for you: ======== You may find...

The Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 team blog has a great post on using SiteName when deploying gateways to help manage alerts in case you haven’t seen it.  This one comes from Rob Kuehfus and he includes a high level overview as well as a link to the detailed steps: When deploying the Operations...