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I was presenting at a couple of TechNet events the other week in Cork & Galway. Part of my session was demonstrating how to extend MOM to do "other things". I'd read the Irish TechNet Newsletter the other week, where Darren Dillon (https://blogs.technet.com/ddillon) wrote about "Extending MOM into non-Microsoft environments". Basically me demo was how I'd taken Darren's article and learnt how do extend MOM.
One of the little demos I did was to using MOM to ping a non-Microsoft device on the network and report back on success or failure. This raised a very "interesting" licensing question: How do I license the non-Microsoft device that I am monitoring (I'm not using any Management Packs)?
In Cork, my answer was "I don't know - but I'll find out". I couldn't imagine Microsoft charging the same amount to ping a device on the network as we do to manage an Exchange server, for example. After the event, I found out that we do (or at least "did").
In Galway, when the same question came up, I was able to give the correct answer "You need a MOM Operations Management License (OML) for every device being managed". The feedback was that this didn't seem too fair. I took the action of giving that feedback to the product groups and to report back my findings.
So, I've done that and the response was that this is a "very grey area". I won't take responsibility for this (because it was probably happening anyway), but we have changed the way we license devices (see https://www.microsoft.com/mom/howtobuy/default.mspx). What we have now is two versions of the OML: an Enterprise version and a Standard version.
The Enterprise OML is for "Full Application and Server Management" and the Standard OML is for "Operating System and Basic Workload Management Only".
I still think it's a bit "grey", but at least we have responded to customer feedback.
The lesson learned is that you should always give feedback - we can't promise to change anything, but it happens sometimes (and if we don't get the feedback, we don't know there is an issue).
Dave.