Installing Service Manager on Two Computers

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Applies To: System Center 2012 - Service Manager Release Candidate

[This topic is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases. Blank topics are included as placeholders.]

If you want to evaluate System Center 2012 – Service Manager and its reporting capabilities in a lab environment, we recommend that you install the Service Manager management server and data warehouse management server on two computers. The first computer hosts the Service Manager management server and the Service Manager database. The second computer hosts the data warehouse management server and the data warehouse databases. This deployment topology is shown in figure 2.

Figure 2: An installation on two physical computers

Two-computer installation for Service Manager 2012

Important

For this release, Service Manager does not support case-sensitive instance names. Setup will display a warning if you attempt to install Service Manager on a case-sensitive instance of Microsoft SQL Server.

Use the following procedures to install Service Manager on two computers.

Task Description

Step 1: How to Install the Service Manager Management Server (Two-Computer Scenario)

Describes how to install the Service Manager management server, Service Manager database, and Service Manager console.

Step 2: How to Install the Service Manager Data Warehouse (Two-Computer Scenario)

Describes how to install the data warehouse management server and the data warehouse database.

Step 3: How to Validate the Two-Computer Installation

Describes how to validate the installation.