Installing the MOM Administrator and MOM Operator consoles

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You can install the MOM Administrator console and the MOM Operator console on the same computer as a Management Server, or you can install the consoles on one or more separate computers and remotely connect to a Management Servers in the management group.

Note

If you installed the Administrator and Operator consoles with the Management Server, you can skip this section and move on to "Discovering Computers and Deploying Agents" later in this chapter.

For any computer on which you want to install the MOM Administrator console and the MOM Operator console, it is recommended that you set your display resolution to 1024  768, with 24-bit color.

The MOM Administrator console is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. The MOM Operator console is a .NET application.

The MOM Administrator console and the MOM Operator console use the DCOM port range to communicate with Management Servers. Therefore, using the MOM Administrator console or the MOM Operator console to communicate with a Management Server across a firewall is not supported.

To install the MOM Administrator console and the MOM Operator console

  1. Log on using an account that has administrative credentials on the local computer.

  2. Close all open applications.

  3. On the MOM 2005 product CD, double-click setup.exe.

  4. In the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Setup Resources dialog box, click Install Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to start the MOM 2005 Setup Wizard.

  5. On the Installation Options page, click Custom, and then click Next.

  6. On the Custom Setup page, expand all components except MOM 2005 User Interfaces, click This component will not be available, and then click Next.

    Note

    This step assumes that you are installing the consoles on a dedicated computer. If you are installing the consoles on the same computer as other MOM components, you should select those components as well.

  7. The Prerequisite Check page indicates whether you have met the requirements.

  8. On the Management Server page, type the name of the Management Server that you want the consoles to initially connect to.

  9. On the Ready to Install page, click Install.