solarwinds network performance monitor licensing

Multi-monitor SW is affecting VMware performance on Helix. I am still finding this stuff out myself so if anybody see that I got some of this wrong please comment. Vmware network setup direct help needed Discussion on Vmware network setup direct help needed. When it comes to SAM it is licensed per service you monitor trough SAM, you can go around that by monitor the services trough SNMP traps but that require a lot more work to get working compared to using the SAM functionality. I must sadly say that I can not find the source for that statement so you should take that as a grain of salt. I saw someplace on solarwinds or twack sites that you should expect each network device to be at least 8 elements trough interfaces and each server to use at least 3 elements.

If you are not mainly a datacenter centric company you will most likely meet the cap by using interfaces. Here is a link to solarwinds official sites pricing list: Įven if you have bought the 'SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor SLX (unlimited elements-Standard Polling Throughput) - License with 1st-year Maintenance' you will still meet a cap at 12000 elements, after that you will have to buy another NPM licence as I understand, and use that licenses as a polling engine. To calculate SolarWinds NPM/SAM pricing, each of these entities is counted and whichever type of element has the highest count is used for licensing purposes.' An Element is a Node, Interface or Disk Volume. Here is a quote from the PDF: 'SolarWinds’ pricing is based on the number of Elements in the monitored network. Unsure how up to date this PDF is when it come to exact pricing but I think you will get the gist of how NPM is licensed from this.

Solarwinds network performance monitor licensing