Install SCOM 2016 step by step

In this article I will cover SCOM 2016 installation step by step for a scenario which I consider is very popular.

In this scenario I have on company with one building, one domain with 3000 computers and 300 servers, all the servers are in the building data center so no SCOM GW are required.

I planed to use:

Virtual servers

  Server

Function

CPU

RAM

Drives

OS

SQL 01

SCOM DB

2 *2.2Ghz

24Gb

OS -  80GB

DB - 200GB

DB Logs - 50GB

DB Temp - 50GB

Windows  2012/2016

SQL 02

SCOM DW, Report server

2 *2.2Ghz

16Gb

OS -  80GB

DB - 200GB

DB Logs - 50GB

DB Temp - 50GB

Windows  2012/2016

SCOM MS1

Server resource pool

2 *2.2Ghz

16Gb

OS -  80GB

Windows  2012/2016

SCOM MS2

Server resource pool

2 *2.2Ghz

16Gb

OS -  80GB

Windows  2012/2016

Note:- CPU speed is quoted as indicative performance required

 

SQL database sizing required

 

DB

Sizing

Operational DB

60Gb

Reporting DW

200Gb

tempDB

8Gb (made up of 4 2Gb files)

Logs

90Gb

Now, lets start

1. In order to proper design you environment please read about SCOM requirements and capacity limits

2. Firewall required ports for SCOM 2016

3. Install SCOM 2016 (System Center Operation Manager)

4. Apply SCOM Update Rollup

5. Import SCOM 2016 MP (management pack)

6. Update SCOM 2016 installed MP

7. Tune MP (management packs) in SCOM 2016

8. Install SCOM agent to monitor servers

9. Play with Dashboards

10. Create a Distributed Application

11. SCOM 2016 install Reporting Server