Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) has several prerequisites that must be installed for each component, and frankly, some of those can be cumbersome to get around. Of course, it is nice for the SCOM installation console to let us know that Report Viewer (a free download from Microsoft, link provided in the notifications window) is a prerequisite… but they do not tell you that System CLR Types for SQL Server 2014 are a prerequisite to Report Viewer, no link given (spoiler alert: it is a component of the SQL Server 2014 Feature Pack).
Of all the components, it is the SCOM Web Console that has the most prerequisites, and frankly some of them are easier to install than others.
We have our work cut out for us, it would seem… unless we use PowerShell!
Yes, we could much our way through the Add Roles & Features wizard in Server Manager… and if you are only installing it the once, then that is probably fine. If you are a consultant and expect to be installing SCOM more than once in your client environments, I strongly suggest you grab these PowerShell scripts.
Of course, the Report Viewer Controls Check is still going to fail, but those prerequisites are really easy – the link for the Report Viewer is here, and I hope you took the opportunity to install the SQL Server 2014 Feature Pack before you do that.
Script:
Import-Module ServerManager
Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-Core,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Filtering,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Metabase,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-Windows-Auth,NET-HTTP-Activation,NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45 -restart
This should do it… you will need to reboot the server in order for a few things to register properly (ISAPI and CGI and all sorts of stuff), but when you restart the installer and check your prerequisites…
That’s what we want to see… so in a few minutes time (the web console really does not take a long time to install) you should be able to navigate to https://servername/OperationsManager and you will see…
Now go forth and script, my good man!
I am heading out of town for a week or R&R… See you next Friday!
The World According to Mitch 
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