So you just installed SCOM? Now you are excited to put it to use. One of the first things I wanted to do is to monitor a website. Here I will describe how you can do it quickly.

Here are my notes for installing SCOM on a single server. The DB will be on a different server. Prerequisites: In a nutshell you need to do these things first. For reference, Here is the official documentation. I also used Kevin Holman’s blog about a similar deployment here.