Manage SCOM agent Part III : Deploy Windows Agent

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Table of Contents

introduction

first two article of SCOM agent series was an overview about SCOM agent and Assignment 

this articles of SCOM agent series : wew ill see how to install SCOM agent  

Network Diagram

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please have a look to pioneers.lab network diagram above :

we have SCOM server called SCOM142 with IP address 172.16.100.142

regarding SCOM client we have :

Windows agent [Server OS ] like :

  • DC101 as domain controller with IP address 172.16.100.101
  • SCCM141 as SCCM server  with IP address 172.16.100.141
  • Mail105 as Exchange server  with IP address 172.16.100.105
  • ISCSI103 as Storage server  with IP address 172.16.100.103

Windows agent [windows OS ] like :

  • IT165  in LAN subnet as PC for IT staff with IP address 172.17.100.165

deploy SCOM windows agent

You can push or install SCOM agent using operations manager console. This is probably the easiest and simplest method of installing SCOM agents on windows based computers.

All you need to follow is the discovery wizard and complete the agent installation. Let’s take a look at steps to do this.

  • Launch the Operations Manager console
  • Click on Administration
  • Click Discovery Wizard.
select discovery wizard
On the Discovery Type page, click on Windows computers, click Next.

In next step you have to select Automatic computer discovery or Advanced discovery. Let’s understand the difference between these discovery methods.

  • Automatic computer discovery scans for Windows-based computers in the domain. However this option might take long time to discover computers in a big organization.
  • Advanced Discovery scans for windows based computers with advanced discovery options. You can select computer and device classes. You also get an option to enable “Verify discovered computers can be contacted“.
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select advanced discovery

On the Discovery Method page, you can locate the computers that you want to manage by either scanning or browsing Active Directory Domain Services or typing the computer names. We have two options here, Scan Active Directory and Browse computer names.

Selecting Scan Active Directory will scan the computer objects based on the query that you provide.

The second option Browse for computer names will scan the list of computer names that you provide.

select scan AD
select managed action account
select client computer that will be installed SCOM agent
path where SCOM agent will be installed on client computer
pushing SCOM agent to client computer take progress
installation DONE 🙂
SCOM is slow motion solution >> waite afew minutes until SCOM server get full details from client

verify deploy SCOM windows agent

we can verify SCOM agent deployment from SCOM server side or from client side 

on client side > open control panel > new icon microsoft monitoring agent
n client side >>check SCOM SCOM server
also on client side check service is running
on server side >> monitoring > device management > agent managed

conclusion

 install SCOM agent using operations manager console is probably the easiest and simplest method of installing SCOM agents on windows based computers.

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