Management Licenses Modified, Bundled

The Operations Management License (OML) required for devices managed by Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) has been split into Standard and Enterprise Editions, and the cost of the base (now Standard) OML has been substantially reduced. In addition, a new System Center Standard Server Management License bundles device-management licenses for three of Microsoft’s management servers.

Tweaking Management Licensing

The latest changes add to a lengthy history of price changes and new licensing models for MOM, which can monitor the health of the OS and applications on other services and provide status reports or alerts to data center staff.

While the first version of MOM (MOM 2000, which was based on a product that Microsoft acquired from NetIQ) had per-processor licensing, the next version (MOM 2005) switched to per-server licensing for MOM itself as well as for the application packs that ran on each managed server. The application packs (which are designed to monitor specific applications) were then made free, but Microsoft created OMLs to license MOM services on each device that MOM manages.