Is it a good
practice to have multiple Sites in a single domain with common Site
boundaries?
I want to have an SMS site just to keep all server info (I have
approximately 500 Servers world wide) and my manager wants to keep server
information separate from desktops and laptop inventory and different SMS
agent settings too. What would you recommend for this type of setup?
Contributed By:
Wally Mead [MS]
No, it is not a good practice to have multiple sites sharing common
boundaries. It is perfectly fine to have multiple sites in the same domain
(we have customers with hundreds of SMS sites in a single domain), but you
should not have multiple sites sharing a common boundary. That makes it hard
to isolate your clients to a specific SMS site (when technically they'd be
members of multiple sites due to the common IP subnets).
It’s fine to have multiple domains in a single SMS site, or multiple sites
in a hierarchy. It does make it a little bit easier if you have separate
domains for sites that are sharing common site boundaries. However, it is
still not recommended to have multiple sites sharing site boundaries.
If you want a separate site for management of servers, then you'd have to
either have all the servers on unique subnets from the clients (and only
list those subnets on the server site) or have shared boundaries, and be
careful to not allow clients to be installed into that site.
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