While answering questions on the Microsoft Technet Forums, I noticed that are lots of questions on topics, which are repeating, or which often are not that well understood. So I had a discussion with Sam (Sameer Mhaisekar) and we decided that it would be very beneficial if we write short blog posts on those topics.
One such topic is agent failover in SCOM and the difference between a Windows and Linux/UNIX agent. In order to understand how the Linux/UNIX agent failover works, one need to first become acquainted with the concept of Resource Pools in Operations Manager.
Sam already wrote the first part on this subject, where he explains the basic of Resource Pools and gives also example of how the failover of the Windows agent work in SCOM. He also referenced 3 very important articles about Resource Pools in SCOM, which are you need to read before getting to Linux/UNIX agent failover.
Please read the full blog post here.