Load Balancing SCOM 2012 Agents

So we’ve recently stood up SCOM 2012 and after weeks of planning we deployed it into our environment.  We used SCCM 2012 to push out clients, which isn’t as well supported as I would like, considering they’re sister components of Microsoft System Center, but I digress.  Our application deployment in SCCM pointed to one of our two management servers, which rapidly began to fill up with clients, while the other management server sat idle.  I wasn’t about to start moving clients manually, so I set out to automate the process of load balancing agents between management servers on a nightly basis.

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