Operations console overview
The central hub of administration in OpsMgr, the Operations console is where you will find yourself frequenting when you need to interact with your monitored environment.
Although most commonly installed onto Management servers, it's a best practice recommendation to run the Operations console completely separate on either a standalone server or a client workstation. The reason for this is that you want to ensure that your Management servers can utilize all their resources for the day-to-day running of OpsMgr.
In large enterprise deployments, a dedicated server running a version of Windows Server Remote Desktop Services is usually deployed to run the Operations console and operators can use an RDP session to logon with their individual user accounts and use it to manage OpsMgr.
A more familiar scenario for Operations console deployments is to install it onto a workstation running a supported Windows client operating system and this is how we will roll it...
