Management Group

A Management Group is the logical entity in which all the objects and data are stored in a SCOM environment. It is a little bit similar to a Domain in Active Directory.

A Management Group is typically created while a SCOM environment is installed. At the very minimum it can be hosted on only one server concentrating several roles: Management Server, Operations Manager Database, Data Warehouse. In the largest environments, a Management Group would include hundreds of of servers.

Several Management Groups can be linked to share data, becoming then Connected Management Groups.