There are some confusing elements to the new System Center licensing structure – particularly for Operations Manager. The most common question is when does a customer require the Enterprise Operations Management License (OML) instead of the Standard OML? This is a valid question since the Enterprise OML price is equal to approximately three times the cost of the Standard OML.
The “How to Buy” webpage doesn’t help to explain the matter much:
Standard OML
Monitoring, troubleshooting, audit collection, and reporting for servers, including Storage/File/Print and Networking workloads, the base operating system, system hardware, and other management agents on the system
Enterprise OML
Monitoring, troubleshooting, audit collection and reporting for any server workload or application, including the base operating system, system hardware, and other management agents on the system
However, upon reviewing the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Licensing Brief, I was able to determine from the Managed Workloads section that the Enterprise version is required for anything beyond monitoring of the following:
- System Resource Manager
- Password Change Notification
- Baseline Security Analyzer
- Reliability and Availability Services
- Print Server
- Distributed File System (DFS)
- File Replication Service (FRS)
- Network File System (NFS)
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- Windows SharePoint® Services
- Distributed Naming Service (DNS)
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS)
Whereas the Enterprise OML also permits the following usage scenarios:
- Business Applications
- Database
- Identity Management
- Messaging
- Collaboration
- Web
- Security
- Management
- Remote Access
- Terminal Emulation
- Other
So, clearly if you want to take full advantage of Operations Manager 2007 and its ability to manage distributed applications or core infrastructure products an Enterprise OML is required.
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