Billy Warring wrote:
To provide some info on point 1 & 2; if the SCS and CI belong to the same SID, you only need to provide 1 SMD agent.
Diagnostics agents usage are based on host names (logical,virtual,physical) but not on SIDs of managed components. You only need one agent per host (logical,virtual,physical) even if it contains several managed components (with same or different SIDs).