HiWe have recently had an SCE installation done, and have noticed that there seems to be a lot of databases running for SCE, i was wondering how many databases are needed as a minimum to run SCE. We have SCE installed on the 1 server using SQL back end engine, but not the full SQL we are using SQL enterprise.We have the following databases in the following folders.D:\Program Files\System Centre Essentials 2007\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DataOperations Manager.mdf 1.6gbOperations ManagerDW.mdf 1gbSUSDB.mdf 3gbD:\SCE\WsusContent has around 11.3gb in itIs this pretty normal or not???

Hello, Everything seems correct in your environment. 1. The following databases are installed and used with Essentials 2007: OperationsManager This database contains Agent and monitoring data and uses the same schema as the Operations Manager 2007 database. OperationsManagerDW This is the data warehouse database used for reporting on Agent and monitoring data. This database uses the same schema as the data warehouse database in Operations Manager 2007. SUSDB This is the WSUS 3.0 database. This database stores the software update, deployment, and inventory data used by Essentials 2007. 2. D:\SCE\WsusContent directory is where clients connect to download update files. It could be very large if you stored updates on the local WSUS server. Thanks,Yog Li - MSFT