Merge pull request #6106 from EnterpriseDB/docs/pem/licensing-page

Docs/pem/licensing page

Author: nidhibhammar

product_docs/docs/pem/9/considerations/index.mdx

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 title: "Deployment considerations"
 navigation:
 
+- licensing
 - setup_ha_using_efm
 - pem_pgbouncer
 - authentication_options
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 | Considerations                                                                     | Implementation instructions                                                                                                                         |
 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Does your EDB subscription cover your planned use of PEM?                          | [How PEM licensing works](licensing)
 | Is a standalone server sufficient or do you need a high availability architecture? | [Installing the server](../installing/) or [Deploying high availability](setup_ha_using_efm/) |
 | Do you need to implement connection pooling?                                       | [Deploying connection pooling](pem_pgbouncer/)                                                                    |
 | What type of authentication to use?                                                | [Authentication options](authentication_options/)                                                                 |

product_docs/docs/pem/9/considerations/licensing.mdx

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+---
+title: "How PEM licensing works"
+navTitle: "Licensing"
+redirects:
+- /pem/latest/pem_ha_setup/
+- /pem/latest/pem_ha_setup/setup_ha_using_efm/
+---
+
+PEM is intended to be used for monitoring and managing Postgres
+instances supported by EDB. As such, if you have a subscription that
+entitles you to use PEM, adding it to your stack to monitor such
+instances generally incurs no additional license costs.
+
+## Licensing rules
+
+To use PEM, you must have an EDB Standard or Enterprise subscription.
+
+Any Postgres servers you monitor using PEM (whether by installing the
+PEM Agent locally, through Remote Monitoring, or by making a client
+connection from the PEM web application) must be covered by an EDB
+Standard or Enterprise subscription.
+
+Non-Postgres servers that do not otherwise consume cores (for example
+PGD Proxy nodes or machines running Barman) may be monitored by PEM. No
+additional cores are consumed by monitoring such servers with PEM.
+
+The Postgres instance used as the PEM backend does not consume cores
+from your subscription. Likewise, no cores are consumed by any other PEM
+components. All these components are covered by your support agreement.
+
+## Examples
+
+### Adding PEM to a fully-supported environment
+A customer with an Enterprise subscription for 32 cores has 8 x 4-core
+servers running EDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS), thereby fully
+consuming their 32 cores. This customer may install PEM on a fifth
+server and use it to monitor their 8 EPAS servers. This requires no
+change to their subscription as the PEM server does not consume cores
+and the monitored EPAS instances are already fully covered. 
+
+Likewise, if this customer added a Barman server and connected it to PEM
+for monitoring, they would consume no additional cores.
+
+### Adding unsupported servers to PEM
+A customer with a Standard subscription for 36 cores has PEM and 6 x
+6-core servers running PostgreSQL covered by EDB support - thereby
+consuming their 36 cores as in the example above.
+
+The customer also has 10 x 2-core PostgreSQL servers that are not
+covered by any EDB subscription. These servers must not be monitored by
+PEM as they are not covered by a Standard or Enterprise subscription. If
+the customer wishes to monitor these servers they must add a further 20
+cores to their subscription.
+
+!!! Note
+An EDB Community 360 subscription for the additional 20 cores is not
+sufficient. Servers monitored by PEM must be covered by Standard or
+Enterprise.
+!!!