Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - License Manager

Oracle have announced the availability of a free License Manager tool to assist moves to OCI.

New optional tool supports Bring Your Own Licensing (BYOL) for Oracle Database products to OCI DB PaaS services, and tracks usage of Oracle DB products or third-party products by Compute resource, with basic management, monitoring and reporting capabilities.

While somewhat limited, the License Manager tool may well suit those organisations that don't run a full featured SAM system (such as ComplianceWare), and still need oversight across their OCI deployments.

Currently, License Manager supports the following Oracle products and options:

• Oracle Database Enterprise Edition
• Oracle Database Standard Edition
• Oracle Database Standard Edition One
• Oracle Database Standard Edition 2
• Real Application Clusters
• Multitenant
• Active Data Guard

... although Oracle have stated that they are 'are expanding the scope of products and image repositories supported in the coming months', so this list may well soon be extended.

It also provides some further capabilities such as apparently automating the license portability rules and API's that could prove useful for batch loads and integration with related systems, ​so if it might fill a gap in your SAM programme could well be worth a look.