Microsoft System Center Operations Manager agent is a service that is installed on a SCOM Server for configurating data, collecting information, reporting, and measuring the health state of monitored objects such as a SQL database or logical disk, any errors on a server. This article shows you how to install the SCOM agent.
1. With Microsoft System Center Operation Manager open, click Administration on the left pane.
2. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Discovery Wizard.
3. In the Computer and Device Management Wizard, click on the Discovery Type page, and then Windows computers.
4. On the Auto or Advanced? Page, you have two options: Automatic computer discovery and Advanced discovery.
5. We select Advanced discovery because we want to discover servers only.
6. In How do you want to discovery computers, check Scan Active Discovery, and then Configure.
Note: you can also select Browse for.
7. Type the server hostname, and then OK
8. It shows the serer and click Next to continue.
9. In Administrator account, click Discover.
10. Select the server under Discovery Results and then click on Next.
11. In the Summary page, keep the default settings and click Finish.
12. It starts process to install the Agent.
13. Now, the SCOM is monitoring the server just installed the agent.
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