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from best practice. The knowledge used to raise these advisory alerts comes from Microsoft's
engineering support team, and reflects direct customer experiences running the products in
production environments.
System Center Advisor includes the Advisor web service, hosted in Microsoft's cloud, an on
premise gateway, and one or more agents, which you deploy to computers in your environ-
ment. The agent functions in a way that is similar to the Operations Manager agent. By con-
necting to the web portal, you can view alerts and advise on how to remediate those issues.
Figure 5-8 shows a typical System Center Advisor deployment, with agents installed on local
computers communicating with a gateway, that forwards collected data that is stored and
analyzed in the cloud.
FIGURE 5-8
System Center Advisor
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You can learn more about System Center Advisor at
http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/
