Reporting Server

A Reporting Server is a component of the SCOM architecture processing the reporting of monitoring data.

Description
The Reporting Server is a server role processing the reporting in the SCOM environment. It requires to work a SQL Server Reporting Services instance and make the connection with the Operational Database and the Data Warehouse.

Change
In SCOM 2007, the Reporting Server was an optional component, like the Web Console. Not deploying the Reporting Server in a SCOM platform would result in making the Reporting workspace unavailable in the Operations Console.

It became a mandatory component since SCOM 2012.

Usage
It is used to generate the reports based on the data stored in the Operational Database and the Data Warehouse.