I'm considering moving my ORION instance from a 32-bit and leveraging the 8.1 ability to run on 64-bit OS. Does anyone have any experience with this to date? I know its early in the release, but any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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There seems to be a number of folks on the forum who are now running v8.1. Has anyone yet tried v8.1 with the 64-bit version of Win 2003? If so, would you please share your experiences?
Thanks.
I installed 8.1 today on 2003 x64 dual core sun x4100. The install went pretty smooth, with the exception of the SQL. I needed to install the 64 bit application. I am currently monitoring 93 nodes and 849 interfaces. No issues at this point, and it seems to be running fast, at least faster than the old crappy dell server.
Also, I installed Cirrus and the engineers tool set with no issues so far too.
Thanks for the feedback. With regard to your statement about SQL, I assume this is due to the fact that you are running your DB on the same server..? I imagine it wouldn't matter if your DB was housed on a different server..?
While we're discussing 64 bit- BUMP for any updates on the x64 bit version of the Orion Event Log forwarder..
It's something we're considering for the future, but it's not imminent.
We've had Orion 8.1 running on x64 2003 for a few weeks without any major issues.
A couple of days ago the syslog service chewed through about 2GB of ram and really slowed the box down.
Process had to be killed rather than restarted but we've not seen any problems since.
We're using an external SQL server so it's just Orion on the box.
We have had problems running the toolset on the box though as the launcher just crashes on startup.
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Thanks for the feedback. Also, I don't believe the Toolset is yet supported on x64.