Operations Console

The Operations Console is a component of the SCOM architecture used as the main client software by users to administer and monitor the Management Group.

Functioning
The Operations Console is installed on a computer used by a person working with SCOM. The sensible choice is usually the personal computer (Desktop, Laptop) used by the person, but it is sometimes also deployed on servers part of the SCOM Platform.

It communicates either with the Root Management Server (with SCOM 2007) or any Management Server (with SCOM 2012 or later).

The interface is organized under five different workspaces.
 * Monitoring workspace displaying views and folders representing applications monitored in the Management Group.
 * Authoring workspace used to display and modify the Management Pack elements of the Management Pack imported in the Management Group.
 * Reporting workspace from here the reports available in the Management Packs imported are available to be run.
 * Administration workspace offering the settings to manage the Management Group.
 * My Workspace a dashboard that can be customized by the user to display dashboards and relevant views.

Security
The console can only display workspaces and information of a given Management Group if the user has the required permissions. They allow a user to perform specific actions in the SCOM environment. In the Operations Console, the permissions are set by using User Roles.

If a user account is a member of a User Role or a group member of a User Role, it is automatically granted the permissions set for this User Role. There are default User Role provided after the installation, and User Role created for the purposes of the organization.