Web Console

The Web Console is an optional component of the SCOM architecture used to provide a web interface for monitoring.

Description
The Web Console is hosted on a IIS server. It uses the technology Silverlight to power a dynamic interface. Its features are more limited than the Operations Console. It only includes the Monitoring workspace on the five normally found in the Operations Console. And it does not support some of the features related to tasks execution.

But even with its limitation, the Web Console might be useful for some organization. Especially by using the alert URL displayed in an email notification. Allowing people who are not using the Operations Console to access monitoring data with only a web browser.

Considerations
The Web Console can only be displayed to computers using Internet Explorer. Tentative to open it with Chrome or Firefox would result in an error message recommending to use Internet Explorer instead.

If a computer does not have Silverlight installed, the web console would provide a link to download and install it.