SCOM 2012 - licensing not Windows client
Hello! I have a question about licensing not Windows clients. Which type of license do we need to monitor (a) Linux servers (b) Cisco routers/switches by SNMP v3? In addition, what's the situation with SCOM's agentless monitoring for Windows? Thanks.
June 14th, 2012 10:56am

Agentless monitoring is supported up to what, 10 or 20 devices. Not certain you would have to pay for "agentless", otherwise someone with clusters would be a little upset. As for unix I am pretty certain you pay the same as if it was a windows device. Routers, switches, etc, I am not sure about, someone else might know. I am not certain agents get installed on routers and switches, I just think you configure a run as account that has read access to them so they can get the general health of the devices at different polling intervals, of course you could configure them to send snmp data to scom as well, but that wouldn't require an agent. This is an area I am not very familiar with, but I am sure others here will know for certain.Regards, Blake Email: mengotto<at>hotmail.com Blog: http://discussitnow.wordpress.com/
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June 14th, 2012 11:17am

Thanks for reply. Linux/Unix physical server - what's license for it - System Center Client Management Suite Client ML or System Center 2012 Standard Edition per proc? In previous version of System Center, monitoring "devices under three layer" - routers, switches, etc by SNMP was 'free for all'
June 14th, 2012 4:42pm

I don't know, we don't monitor unix yet. In SCOM R2 I think the license for a unix box was the same as a windows server. I can't recall. Someone has to know this though.Regards, Blake Email: mengotto<at>hotmail.com Blog: http://discussitnow.wordpress.com/
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June 14th, 2012 6:26pm

Great! Just several days ago - You don't need a management license for any "...devices functioning only as a network infrastructure device (OSI layer 3 or below)"
June 15th, 2012 1:57am

If the Linux/Unix server is a physical server, you will need the Std licence (matching the # of proc). If the Linux/Unix server is virtualised, the Data Center license will cover - just like with Windows servers.
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July 20th, 2012 9:06am

>>If the Linux/Unix server is a physical server, you will need the Std licence (matching the # of proc) - Yes, we have got same answer from Microsoft directly.
July 23rd, 2012 4:35pm

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