1. Log on to the computer with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager Administrators role for the Operations Manager 2007 Management Group.

2. In the Operations console, click the Administration button.

3. In the Administration pane, expand Administration, expand Device Management, and then click Management Servers.

4. In the Management Servers pane, right-click the management server or gateway server to be Primary Management Server for the computers returned by the rules you will create in the following procedure, and then click Properties.

   Note
   Gateway servers work like management servers in this context. For more information about gateway servers, see Gateway Server.

5. In the Management Server Properties dialog box, click the Auto Agent Assignment tab, and then click Add to start the Agent Assignment and Failover Wizard.

1. In the Agent Assignment and Failover Wizard, on the Introduction page, click Next.

   Note
   The Introduction page does not appear if the wizard has been run and Do not show this page again was selected.

2. On the Domain page, do the following:

   Note
   To assign computers from multiple domains to a management group, run the Agent Assignment and Failover Wizard for each domain.

   • Select the domain of the computers from the Domain name drop-down list. The management server must be able to resolve the domain name.
     
     

     Important
     The management server and the computers that you want to manage must be in two-way trusted domains.

   • Set Select Run As Profile to the Run As profile associated with the Run As account provided when MOMADAdmin.exe was run for the domain. The default account used to perform agent assignment is the computer account for the root management server, also referred to as the Active Directory Based Agent Assignment Account. If this was not the account used to run MOMADAdmin.exe, select Use a different account to perform agent assignment in the specified domain, and then select or create the account from the Select Run As Profile drop-down list.
     
     

     Note
     For more information about Run As profiles and Run As accounts, see Run As Profiles and Run As Accounts in Operations Manager 2007.

3. On the Inclusion Criteria page, either type the LDAP query for assigning computers to this management server in the text box and then click Next, or click Configure. If you click Configure, do the following:

   1. In the Find Computers dialog box, type the desired criteria for assigning computers to this management server.
      
      
   2. Click OK, and then click Next.
      
      

      Note
      The following LDAP query will return computers with a name starting with MsgOps, (&(sAMAccountType=805306369)(objectCategory=computer)(cn=MsgOps*)) For more information about LDAP queries, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=73366.

4. On the Exclusion Criteria page, type the FQDN of computers that you explicitly want to prevent from being managed by this management server, and then click Next.

   Important
   You must separate the computer FQDNs that you type with a semicolon, colon, or a new line (CTRL+ENTER).

5. On the Agent Failover page, either select Automatically manage failover and click Create or select Manually configure failover. If you select Manually configure failover, do the following:

   1. Clear the check boxes of the management servers to which you do not want the agents to failover.
      
      
   2. Click Create.
      
      

      Note
      With the Manually configure failover option, you must run the wizard again if you subsequently add a management server to the management group and want the agents to failover to the new management server.

6. In the Management Server Properties dialog box, click OK.

   Note
   It can take up to one hour for the agent assignment setting to propagate in AD DS.

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