Do I have to buy a matching license count for Netflow as I do in Orion? For example, if I have an Orion NPM SL500, can I install a Netflow Module for 100 nodes? I only have a few devices that support netflow...
That's not how the licensing works. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is an extension of Orion. You pay to "turn on" NetFlow for that size Orion. You pay to turn on NetFlow for the particular Orion you own.
However this is something you should review.
As a customer that uses Solarwinds for years, to monitor, Sun, WIntel, Nortel, DLINK, CISCO, 3Com, HP Printers, etc, and pay a maintenance fee for a SLX license your licensing scheme is preventing you to do business.
We only have around 60 CISCO routers. Why do I have to pay 15000 USD for a netflow Unlimited license?
You're still thinking of it based on on interfaces. It's a flat fee. We could have charged $15k for everyone, but we decided to offer a discounted flat fee for users with smaller licenses of Orion.
Despite your suggestion that our licensing model is preventing us from doing business, the NetFlow module is actually selling very well. Our customers are buying it because it provides tremendous value for the price. The market alternatives are mostly far more expensive or fall far short of enterprise scalability. We are also adding new functionality at a fast pace. We about to ship the fourth release in about 9 months.
I encourage you consider whether the value NTA would provide to your organization is sufficient to justify the expense. There's not a lot of enterprise software available for the price.
