BMC Helix Operations Management service
This topic provides an overview of the BMC Helix Operations Management offering. For BMC Helix Operations Management product-specific information, see
BMC Helix Operations Management overview
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The following items are documented for this service:
Licensing
BMC Helix Operations Management services are available with the purchase of any of the following line items from your ordering document:
License | Unit of Measurement | Functionality |
|---|---|---|
| BMC Helix Operations Management - Monitoring and Event Management for Servers | per asset - average server endpoint - SaaS |
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| BMC Helix Operations Management - Monitoring and Event Management for Devices | per asset - average device endpoint - SaaS | |
| BMC Helix Operations Management - Monitoring and Event Management for Serverless Assets (250-Pack) | per asset - average serverless endpoint - SaaS | |
BMC Helix Operations Management – Monitoring and Event Management – Resource Unit | per resource unit - SaaS | |
| BMC Helix Operations Management - Monitoring and Event Management for Servers (FedRAMP) | per asset - average server endpoint - SaaS | |
| BMC Helix Operations Management - Monitoring and Event Management for Devices (FedRAMP) | per asset - average device endpoint - SaaS | |
| BMC Helix Operations Management - Monitoring and Event Management for Serverless Assets (250-Pack) (FedRAMP) | per asset - average serverless endpoint - SaaS | |
BMC Helix Operations Management – Monitoring and Event Management – Resource Unit (FedRAMP) | per resource unit - SaaS |
License | Unit of Measurement | Functionality |
|---|---|---|
| BMC Helix Operations Management - Event Management for Servers | per asset - average server endpoint - SaaS |
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| BMC Helix Operations Management - Event Management for Devices | per asset - average device endpoint - SaaS | |
| BMC Helix Operations Management - Event Management for Serverless Assets (250-Pack) | per asset - average serverless endpoint - SaaS | |
BMC Helix Operations Management - Event Management – Resource Unit | per resource unit - SaaS | |
| BMC Helix Operations Management - Event Management for Servers (FedRAMP) | per asset - average server endpoint - SaaS | |
| BMC Helix Operations Management - Event Management for Devices (FedRAMP) | per asset - average device endpoint - SaaS | |
| BMC Helix Operations Management - Event Management for Serverless Assets (250-Pack) (FedRAMP) | per asset - average serverless endpoint - SaaS | |
BMC Helix Operations Management - Event Management – Resource Unit (FedRAMP) | per resource unit - SaaS |
License | Unit of Measurement | Functionality |
|---|---|---|
| BMC Helix Operations Management - AIOps Add-on for Servers | per asset - average server endpoint - SaaS |
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| BMC Helix Operations Management - AIOps Add-on for Devices | per asset - average device endpoint - SaaS | |
| BMC Helix Operations Management - AIOps Add-on for Serverless Assets (250-Pack) | per asset - average serverless endpoint – SaaS | |
BMC Helix Operations Management – AIOps Add-On – Resource Unit | per resource unit - SaaS | |
BMC Helix Operations Management - AIOps Add-on for Servers (FedRAMP) | per asset - average server endpoint - SaaS | |
BMC Helix Operations Management - AIOps Add-on for Devices (FedRAMP) | per asset - average device endpoint - SaaS | |
BMC Helix Operations Management - AIOps Add-on for Serverless Assets (250-Pack) (FedRAMP) | per asset - average serverless endpoint – SaaS | |
BMC Helix Operations Management – AIOps Add-On – Resource Unit (FedRAMP) | per resource unit - SaaS |
Please refer to Service locations for available datacenter locations.
With the "per asset - average server endpoint - SaaS" unit of measurement, a subscription is required for the highest monthly average of server endpoints monitored, managed or discovered by the service. “Server endpoints” include any virtual or physical computer that provides a service for other computers or users connected to it via the Internet, extranet, intranet, or other networked technologies. Each virtual machine, regardless of the environment it is hosted in, is considered a server endpoint.
With the "per asset - average device endpoint - SaaS" unit of measurement, a subscription is required for the highest monthly average of device endpoints monitored, managed or discovered by the service. A “device endpoint” is a network device (such as a router, switch or hub), either standalone or a chassis-based device/card/processor, using a unique IP address. A device endpoint also includes virtual network devices managed through the IP address of its physical host.
With the "per asset - average serverless asset endpoint - SaaS" unit of measurement, a subscription is required for the highest monthly average of serverless assets monitored, managed or discovered by the service. “Serverless assets” include any type of cloud computing service (i.e., private, public or hybrid) that does not require access to the underlying assets such as servers.
With the "resource unit" unit of measurement, a subscription is required for the highest monthly average of Resource Units monitored, managed or discovered by the service. A Resource Unit (RU) is any type of physical data center asset or cloud computing service with the corresponding values determining the license capacity and subscription services consumed. The following details the list of supported RUs by asset type and their corresponding value: 1 RU = 5 containers; 1 RU = 5 client devices (e.g., laptop, mobile device, or other hardware device permitting access to the Subscription Service(s)); 1 RU = 5 network devices; 1 RU = 5 PaaS resources; 1 RU = 1 Server; 1 RU = 5 storage ports; 1 RU = 5 telecommunication devices; 1 RU = 10 IoT devices, 1 RU = 1 undocumented asset. For example, if the desired License Capacity consists of 100 servers, 50 containers and 50 network devices, the License Capacity would equate to 120 RUs.
Additional license terms
The following additional terms apply to the BMC Helix Operations Management service:
- BMC Helix Dashboards and BMC Helix Portal are included as entitlements.
- Licensing terms and conditions are as defined in the governing master agreement and take precedence over any published description from this site.
- BMC Helix Operations Management licensing purchased on your agreement is consumed across your production and non-production environments.
- Entitlements are subject to change.
- Data retention and storage limitations apply as follows:
| Data type | Description | Retention period | Storage limit |
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| Events | Open events are closed 90 days after last modification date | 90 days | 400 GB of events, raw metrics and aggregated metrics for every 1,000 assets licensed |
| Raw metrics | All raw metrics stored in the solution | 90 days | |
| Aggregated metrics | All metrics that have been aggregated hourly stored in the solution | 2 years | |
Logs | All log records that are stored in the solution | 3 days | 1 GB of daily ingestion for every 1,000 BMC Helix Operations Management - Monitoring and Event Management for Servers or BMC Helix Operations Management – Monitoring and Event Management - Resource Unit quantities purchased (i.e. 1 MB per license) |
Spans | All distributed tracing span records stored in the solution | 7 days | 1 Million spans per month for every 1,000 BMC Helix Operations Management - AIOps Add-On for Servers or BMC Helix Operations Management - AIOps Add-On - Resource Unit quantities purchased (i.e. 1,000 spans per license) |
Data retention periods and storage capacity for logs may be expanded with the purchase of one of the following add-ons:
| License | Unit of Measurement | Description |
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| BMC Helix Operations Management – 1 GB Log Analytics (30 Day Retention) | Each | 1 GB of log ingestion per day, retained for 30 days |
| BMC Helix Operations Management – 1 GB Log Analytics, Cold Storage | 1 GB of log archival (including a restoration in warm search for up to 500 GB per tenant and up to 10 days each month) |
Standard environments
Your purchase of BMC Helix Operations Management provides the following environments:
- Development
- Production
Important
If your IT Operations Management subscription services are accompanied by any IT Service Management subscription services, you will also receive a standard QA environment, in addition to Development and a Production environment.
Add-on services
The following services are available via BMC's MarketZone program:
Comments
In the following reference: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/helixsubscriber/BMC+Helix+Operations+Management+activation, there are 3 environments and in this link 2 are mentioned. Can you specify how many environments we provide with this solution?
Gerardo, we offer two environments for this service. I have updated the activation page.
Is AIOPs offering - add-on already GA and available as a SKU . Also is Entuity is. also available as a SaaS offering .
The sentry links for BHOM takes to a page which shows Sentry for TrueSight Operation management , does that mean the same SKU's and options will be applicable to Sentry for BHOM as well .
Also , as per the pricing options , there are multiple SKU's for Sentry Monitoring Studio for BHOM and can you confirm that pls.
Hi Amit, I sent the responses to you via Microsoft Teams - please let me know if you did not receive my messages.
Thanks!
I am still facing this issue , can you check it again .
For the additional storage retention for log analytics is that per 1000 assets as well? If so that should be specified.
Hi Graham,
The 1 GB per 1,000 assets with 1 day of retention is just a small amount of log analytics that is included when a customer purchases BMC Helix Operations Management - Monitoring and/or Event Management licenses. The number of assets does not have an impact if a customer purchases the "BMC Helix Operations Management – 1 GB Log Analytics (xx Day Retention)". The "BMC Helix Operations Management – 1 GB Log Analytics (30 Day Retention)" SKU is a monthly subscription that gives the customer 1 GB of daily ingestion with 30 days of retention for each quantity purchased. For example, if you buy quantity of 2, you get 2 GB of daily ingestion with 30 day retention. When you purchase this Log Analytics SKU, it does not matter how many assets you have.
Could you mention Helix Dashboard entitlements as part of default licensing along with any other add-on capabilities
Hi Amit, BMC Helix Dashboards and BMC Helix Portal has been added under "Additional license terms" as per your request. Thanks!
Would someone be able to clarify when the log ingestion size is reset? When is the daily flag reset for logs to flow in again?
Is it a calculated 24hours? Or does it reset at midnight for a certain time zone? Or something else that begins the “new day” of allowing log ingestion to start again?
Hi Betty,
The daily ingestion is based on the time zone where the service is hosted. For instance, if the Log Analytics service is running in northern Virginia, the day = 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM ET.
I am looking for BHOM on-prem license information
Hello Ahmed,
Thank you for your query.
You can find information about the standard license entitlements for the BMC Helix ITOM OnPrem offering on this page: License entitlements
Thanks,
Dhanya
Thanks a lot Dhanya
Hi @Dhanya,
Could you please also send me license information for BHOM OnPrem
Hello Ahmed,
The link I shared provides license information for BHOM On-Premises. Is there anything specific you are looking for?
Regards,
Dhanya
Actually, the link provided is for ITOM, not BHOM, I am looking for BHOM Onprem license information in detail and how can we license it.
Many thanks in advance for your fast response, Really Appreciated,
Hello Ahmed,
BMC Helix ITOM OnPrem is a solution offering that includes the following product components:
You can find license information for BMC Helix Operations Management on the License entitlements page. For features that are available in various components, please see the Features available with Standard and Advanced licenses section on the same page.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Dhanya
Thanks, Dhanya,
I know that ITOM onPrem includes the above products and includes BHOM, But actually, I found that ITOM is only applicable to be installed on the container architecture. Is it correct?
So if our customer doesn't have a containers platform like OpenShift for example, he should use legacy systems like Linux or Windows, So he will install BHOM stand-alone. Is it correct or is BHOM also only supported on the Container Platform?
Thanks
Hello Ahmed,
I will check with an expert about your queries and revert.
Thanks,
Dhanya
Yes, Its same as SAAS product which is containerized microservice based architecture can be deployed only on container platform.
We have several container platform supported by ITOM OnPrem. Refer this for all the supported platforms and other system requirements.
https://docs.bmc.com/docs/HelixOperationsManagementDeploy/system-requirements-1020715950.html
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