Licensing

Question 1

IPAM is licensed in accordance with the number of IP addresses you manage in one of three statuses:

Answer 1

Used, Reserved, Transient

Question 2

True or False:

if you have an NPM SL500 (500 nodes and 500 volumes) installed with SAM AL150, you can monitor an unlimited number of interfaces polled using WMI

Answer 2

True

Reference: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/orion_platform_licensing_model.htm

Question 3

What happens if the upper limit of 12 000 elements has been reached?

Answer 3

Orion will automatically adjust the polling interval to compensate

Question 4

Why NPM license is required for NTA?

Answer 4

The number of netflows and endpoints covered by NTA is a direct reflection of the size of the overall network.

Question 4

Why NPM license is required for NTA?

Answer 4

The number of netflows and endpoints covered by NTA is a direct reflection of the size of the overall network.

Question 5

Which database platform does DPA license covers?

Answer 5

SQL Server, Oracle Standard Edition, MySQL

Question 6

What are the four license tiers for VNQM?

Answer 6

SLA 5 – 5 IP SLA sites, 300 IP Phones, and 40 nodes
SLA 25 – 25 IP SLA sites, 1500 IP Phones, and 200 nodes
SLA 50 – 50 IP SLA sites, 3000 IP Phones, and 400 nodes
SLA X – Unlimited IP SLA sites, unlimited IP Phones, and 1000 nodes

Question 7

SolarWinds VNQM is licensed on the what level?

Answer 7

IP SLA site level,
IP Phone level,
node level.

Question 8

True or False:

When upgrading NPM and NTA licenses, the license levels must match.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

True or False:

Unused IP addresses do not count towards the managed IP address count

Answer 9

True

Question 10

True or False:

The SolarWinds platform does not support using LA with one set of nodes, and OLV on remaining nodes.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

if you have an NPM SL100 (100 nodes and 100 volumes) installed with SAM AL150, you can monitor

Answer 11

250 nodes (100 NPM nodes + 150 SAM nodes)
100 volumes (matching the node count)
100 interfaces monitored with SNMP
150 component monitors
An unlimited number of interfaces polled using WMI

Reference: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/npm/content/npm_licensing_model.htm

Question 12

True or False:

An Additional Polling Engine license covers all modules installed on the polling engine

Answer 12

True

Reference: https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Licensing-Requirements-for-Additional-Polling-Engine?language=en_US

Question 13

What are the 4 categories offered with Solarwinds Hybrid Cloud Observability Licensing?

Answer 13

Essentials, Essentials Enterprise Scale, Advanced, and Advanced Enterprise Scale

Question 14

True or False:

Up/Down status monitoring for ICMP nodes and external nodes no longer consumes a node from your Hybrid Cloud Observability license when no additional monitoring has been assigned to them.

Answer 14

True

Source: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/hco/content/release_notes/hco_2023-2_release_notes.htm