Altiris on 2 Servers

Hi all,



we are currently setting up 2 Altiris Servers:

1 for CMS L2 (600 Clients) + SMS L3 (100 Servers)

2 for CMDB and Helpdesk

Server 1 will use Inventory Forwarding to Server 2





The main reason for this setup is performance on server 2

Our old config was on 1 server, contained no SMS, but was terribly slow when editing assets.



So we thought about following solution

Server 1 handles the agents, software, patches, server monitoring

Server 2 handles only "Manual Input"



However, I start questioning myself if this topology is wise, since i do not know what interaction is lost:

for instance...

- how do i get Monitoring alerts (server 1) into the helpdesk (server 2)

- will we be able to run software compliancy reports

- will we be able to get carbon copy from the HD console

- will we be able to let HD trigger software-delivery tasks.



So here are my questions:

- Anyone out there with experience on such a topology

- Any suggestion about this topology, about what functional loss we should expect or how it can be cured?





Thanks for any feedback