Hi all, anyone running NAM together with SAM. Planning to deploy SAM soon.
Not really sure how the new SAM licensing model with pollers will work in this case and also if HA included with NAM will cover it.
Thanks
What is NAM? I'm not familiar with that one.
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Under the new SAM licensing model APE's are free and unlimited. Under NAM APE's are also free and unlimited. The HA covers the whole server pair and everything on it, and with NAM licensing you can have as many HA pairs as you like. I suspect that you will not have anything to worry about.
Ah, thanks. For anyone with the same question as me, NAM is a bundle of Solarwinds products. From the product page:
Network Automation Manager (NAM) provides integrated network automation tools and operations management software for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid IT environments. This product includes the following components:
Yeah, these are basically all just experiments in licensing models. They all come with unlimited APE's and HA in the bundle as well. There was also a short lived NOM (network operations manager) with a few less products included. Also ACM which was a bundle pointed more at sysadmin types with SAM and WPM tacked on.
Ultimately none of these really make much difference until you go to apply your licenses and hope everything lines up.
Brilliant thanks for the response!
covers every HA pair meaning- no additional licenses to be bought? I can pair as many as i want if NAM in place?
Yeah, last time I ran the numbers the crossover point where nam or acm became better deals was typically environments with at least 7 apes
Just to clarify - with new SAM license - it's not completely true that it means unlimited free APEs, as those "free" APEs would not be able to, for example, poll NPM data. Those free APEs are limited to new SAM, SRM, VMAN and Log Analyzer.
But NAM already allows unlimited APEs for the network centric modules, did you guys build in a mechanism where NAM apes and SAM apes are incompatible and don't run on the same server?
That should not be a problem. It's just NAM would provide you unlimited number of "regular" APEs in this case, while SAM would offer unlimited number of "SAM only" APEs. In the end - if you have both licenses then probably it does not make sense to deploy those SAM-only APEs (all depends on the environment though).
If you are buying new. "Upgrades" to NAM are ridiculously expensive.
They all run on the same APE. You are just limited to how many SAM nodes you can poll.
