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.
Aaron,
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1. Think of Orion+NetFlow/VoIP as a suite. When you upgrade to the suite, that's the price of the suite. We decided
2. NetFlow for Orion SLX means you're able to monitor NetFlow on any interface monitored by Orion.
If you are having scalability problems with just two interfaces, you should definitely contact Support. We have customers successfully monitoring much larger installations than yours.
Orion/NetFlow/VoIP? Please explain. Pricing isn't on the site yet, and I haven't been sold that concept in the past. There is a suite coming? If I pay $15k for NetFlow, is VoIP going to be included when it's available? Do you have target pricing if that's not the case?
I will have at least 20 WAN sites to monitor when the VoIP product is available, but my NetFlow needs will remain small.
No. Sorry to confuse. VoIP is going to be priced like NetFlow. It's not an official suite, but I'm suggesting that we're starting to treat it more like a suite. When you add functionality, it's all-or-none, it's not a separate count for each component.
VoIP will be a separate module, but we won't count the number of sites you're monitoring. It's just be based on the size of your Orion.
Details of VoIP pricing can be found here:
www.solarwinds.com/.../eap_voip.aspx
Is there a page that covers ongoing maintenance?
I have
Like most software companies, annual maintenance is typically around 18-20% of the list price.
Does APM follow this same license structure? We have Orion SLX and want to buy a small license of APM. That possible?
We are also looking at Netflow, but having to buy an SLX version of that when we only want to monitor a few interfaces will probably prevent us from buying it. Unless someone at SW wants to work something out with us
