Often users will rely on their support invoices to understand their license grant. This is not complete, as the support invoice does not hold all the nuances in terms and definitions. Furthermore, support is offered as standard with subscription licensing, such as Oracle clouds offerings. Oracle LMS is a global venture available to anyone with an investment in Oracle licensing.
The aim of Oracle LMS is to help support customers with the proper and effective management of their software licenses, and help with deployment.
Oracle audits are complicated and time consuming, and often end up with the licensee on the receiving end of a fine. Below is a brief version of a few of the important questions around Oracle licensing audits or reviews. Whenever you install an Oracle program, whether as an individual or as a corporation, you agree to the terms and conditions of a license agreement.
These agreements specify under which terms and conditions that you are allowed to make use of the Oracle programs but also provide Oracle the permission to perform an audit. Oracle LMS is chartered to perform license audits at end-users and partners. During an audit, you are requested to complete an Excel overview Oracle Server Worksheet with the details of your IT infrastructure. In addition, you might be requested to run scripts on your servers or to execute various commands on the different software programs.
The completed overview and the output log files, are requested to be sent back to Oracle for analysis purposes. At the end, the results of the analysis are formalized in a final report, through which Oracle presents you with your license compliance status. If you agree to pay for the necessary licenses to become compliant, the process usually ends there. The audit starts when you receive a notification letter in which you are notified that you have been selected for a license audit or license review.
The LMS consultant that performs the audit or the LMS partner that is selected for the audit is listed in the letter as well. You are requested to assign a single point of contact within your organization, which will act as the coordinator for the audit from your side. If end-users have been keeping good, complete, and accurate records of their software deployments, 45 days should be ample time to respond to the audit request. The typical answer of the auditors will be that you are randomly selected.
As per the terms of the license agreement, you are responsible for any of your costs that are incurred in cooperating with the audit. Recently, the Campaign for Clear Licensing started their project to try and help highlight the complexities around Oracle licensing, and how the licensing metrics need to be made clearer to customers. The CCL want to be Oracle users voice in making a difference and helping them understand their Oracle licenses. Furthermore, the CCL want to help communicate licensing changes effectively and efficiently to Oracle users, as without adequate communication users could end up paying an awful lot of money for licenses they were not aware they needed.
Oracle licensing remains one of the most complex structures to understand. This licensing quick guide has gone over the basics of Oracle licensing and how to ensure you keep up-to-date with Oracle licensing changes. Organisations Oracle estates will differ as environments and requirements are different. Click here for more information.
Image credit. Edit: I must also add something. Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 may only be licensed on servers that have a maximum capacity of 2. Your email address will not be published.
Most of these cases occur due to lack of knowledge of the Oracle licensing scheme and a failure of managers to regularly audit license usage. Typically, when your Oracle rep. It is highly advisable to conduct a yearly audit of servers with a partner that understands Oracle licensing.
This section lists some scripts that can be executed to see some of the components that should be licensed:. Please note that the information provided by this command is not trustworthy on multi-threaded, multi-core or virtual systems. It is the number of processors understood to be available by the database - not the number of processors which must be licensed.
Please note - on Enterprise Edition, Partitioning will almost always be installed. It is used by Oracle database itself - this command in isolation will not provide information on license requirement. Each licensable option has a number of tests required - see "Deployment Identification for License Review Purposes" section below for more details. Oracle has a validation program which provides assurance that their LMS team will accept data from certain third party vendors as being suitable for license review purposes.
McOptions is a Windows program which checks the installed and used options and features in an Oracle database. Oracle Database Licensing.
Oracle Processor Core Factor Table. Aquired by Flexera Software. How to tame Oracle licensing fees. Personal Edition includes all of the components that are included with Enterprise Edition, as well as all of the options that are available with Enterprise Edition, with the exception of the Oracle Real Application Clusters option, which cannot be used with Personal Edition.
Personal Edition is available on Windows and Linux platforms only. The Management Packs are not included in Personal Edition. The Y value in a column means that the feature is available in the specified release; N means that it is unavailable.
This table can help you understand the difference between the editions and determine whether you require Enterprise Edition or Personal Edition for a single-user environment. For releases earlier than Oracle Database 11 g Release 2 Beginning with Oracle Database 11 g Release 2 Basic Flashback Data Archive—without history table optimization—is available in all editions.
Enterprise User Security is an EE feature for directory-based management of database users. Oracle Machine Learning formerly Advanced Analytics. Oracle Machine Learning no longer requires an extra cost license for EE. Bitmapped index, bitmapped join index, and bitmap plan conversions.
All other Database Gateway products are available for all editions, but require a separate product license. Available via a custom install of the Oracle Database client, usually installed on a separate machine. Oracle Spatial no longer requires an extra cost license for EE. Hybrid Columnar Compression is a feature of the Enterprise Edition of Oracle Database 11 g that is dependent on the underlying storage system. On storage platforms other than those previously mentioned, Hybrid Columnar Compression is not available, and no right to use Hybrid Columnar Compression is granted by a license of the Oracle Database.
The following features related to application development are available only on Windows platforms:. Oracle Database Express Edition may be used for free, for the purposes of developing, prototyping and running applications. It can also be used for free to provide demonstrations and training. It may also be distributed for free with any applications.
However, any use of the Oracle Database Express Edition is subject to the following limitations:. Express Edition may be installed on a multiple CPU server, but may only be executed on one processor in any server.
Express Edition may be used only to support up to 11 GB of user data not including Express Edition system data. The Oracle technical support organization will not provide technical support, phone support, or updates for Oracle Database Express Edition. Third-party clusterware management solutions are not supported. The license restrictions for Standard Edition must be adhered to. The maximum number of CPUs defined is for the entire cluster; it is not a per node maximum.
Raw volumes, partitions, or third-party cluster file systems are not supported for storing Oracle database files with Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle RAC. Refer to Oracle Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide for a comprehensive list of all database file types. No Oracle-maintained copies of any non-database files can exist in any other locations, with the following exceptions:.
No other cluster software can be installed on the system, including OCFS, OCFS2, third-party clusterware, third-party cluster volume managers, and third-party cluster file systems.
You can install the broker command line interface DGMGRL and run the observer software on computer systems that are separate from the Oracle Data Guard primary and standby systems. It is not necessary to obtain a separate license for a system hosting the observer. Oracle Database Vault. If you want to create Oracle Label Security policies, then you must purchase a full-use license for Oracle Label Security. All 9. The installation of Oracle Database 11 g deployed in this manner may not be used or deployed for other uses.
Oracle Connection Manager. Oracle Connection Manager can be installed and used on a machine different from the machine where the Oracle Database is installed and used. It is not necessary to obtain a separate license for the machine running Oracle Connection Manager. The functionality available on Oracle9 i Database Release 2 is as follows:. Database Replay : Only the Workload Capture feature is supported, and the captured workload may only be replayed only on Oracle Database 11 g. This feature can be used only to facilitate upgrades from Oracle 9 i Database Release 2 to Oracle Database 11 g.
The functionality available on Oracle Database 10 g Release 2 is as follows:.
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