Orion SLX licensing with non-SLX add-on modules

As far as I understand it, if you have Orion SLX installed, all your add-on modules HAVE to be SLX. Why is this?

I would love to have Netflow and APM, but we will monitor only a hand full of interfaces and servers, so why do we have to purchase the Expensive SLX version?

Unfortunately I can only think that SW built it this way to extract more money from us. As far I am can tell there is no logical reason why we cannot have Orion SLX, but have a SL100 Netflow add-on module right?

I for one cannot justify to my manager paying £11,110 for APM ALX add-on module, when all we need is a £2,775 AL100 module.

Solarwinds, is there any planning to enable this feature? I am Very sure many more customers would purchase add-on modules and be happy, without the feeling of being a little ripped off.

What do you guys think?

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m_roberts

As far as the APM module is concerned, you can buy the license size you require for the number of monitors you are going to put into place.

It is therefore not a requirement to purchase the unlimited ALX with your Orion SLX. If you only need a few monitors you can happily go ahead with the AL100.

FormerMember

Yes, APM is not tied to the size of the Orion.

videotech

Ah, great news on the APM.

What about NTA, VOIP, Wireless modules?

Thanks.

FormerMember

Wireless is a flat fee. NTA and VoIP are tied to the size of the NPM installation because in both cases, the value of the product is tied directly to the size of the network. That is, even if you're only collecting NetFlow on some interfaces, the value of the traffic is a correlated with the size of the network.