SCOM 2022—latest version installation guide

System Center Operations Manager (2022) is the latest version of Microsoft’s agent-based monitoring solution for businesses. This article demonstrates a comprehensive yet concise deployment guide for SCOM 2022. The idea is to do a minimal installation of SCOM, using as few servers as necessary while demonstrating the functions and capabilities of SCOM.

Modes of Deployment of SCOM 2022

The SCOM deployment is either single server based where all the features are loaded on a single server or they are distributed installations by which various management groups can communicate with one another as needed by the organization.

Download Links

Download the System Center Operations Manager 2022 from the Microsoft evaluation center.
Download SQL server from the Microsoft Data Platform.
Download SQL reporting services from Microsoft Download Center.
Download SQL server management studio from Microsoft Learn.

System Requirements for SCOM 2022

Software Requirements

Windows Server 2019 or Windows Server 2022 are required for the essential components of System Center Operations Manager 2022, whereas Windows Server 2016 or older is not supported.
The only supported database engines for SCOM databases are SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2019 (CU8+).

The following Windows Server operating system versions are supported by the Operations Manager components.

Hardware Requirements

The following information should be used for installing one or more components, considering the minimum hardware requirements for CPU, memory, and disc space.

Prerequisites for installing SCOM 2022
The following steps must be completed before installing SCOM 2022.
1. Setting up VM
2. Installing IIS prerequisites.
3. Setting up SQL server for SCOM.

Setting up VM
• The first prerequisite for installing SCOM 2022 is to set up a VM.

Installing IIS Prerequisites

• To install the IIS prerequisites for SCOM 2022, Launch the PowerShell on the Windows server as administrator, and run the following command.
Add-WindowsFeatureNET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-DirBrowsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Filtering,Web-StatCompression,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-Metabase,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Windows-Auth –Restart

• Restart the server after installation to avoid any false failures about missing prerequisites.

Create the accounts in ADUC and add users to the Local admin group of SCOM Management Server.

Setup SCOM Database Server
SQL Server for SCOM 2022 installation
• Run the setup.exe file to start the installation wizard and click New SQL Server stand-alone installation or add features to an existing installation.
• In the feature selection window, check the Database Engine Services and Full-Text and Semantic Extractions for Search and then click the next button.

Select a default instance or a named instance from the Instance configuration menu.

Set SQL Server Agent to Automatic on the Server configuration screen. You may specify different service accounts here if you have them. Accepting the defaults for the service accounts is OK, but using a Domain account is preferred. Click next to continue.

In the collation menu, set the database engine to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. Click the next button.

On Specify SQL Server administrators option in Database Engine Configuration Menu, Click the Add Current User or Add button to add administrators and then click next.

On Ready to Install menu, click the install button.

You must restart the server once the installation is complete.

The SQL server 2019 should be updated to the latest CU (Cumulative Update) to get the updated features.
SCOM server installation Steps
Systems Center 2022 Installation
• Download the System Center Operations Manager 2022.

Run the setup.exe file, check the download latest updates to the setup program option and click install.

Select the required features to install and then click the next button.

The Operations manager setup now checks for missing requirements. Any requirements that are lacking will be shown on the screen. When all prerequisites have passed appears on the screen, click next.