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Experiences with 8.1 running on 64-bit OS

InformationGatherer

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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vhcato

I'm curious about this as well.

vhcato

BUMP...

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.

rkawell

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.

vhcato

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.

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..?

rkawell

Yes, I am running the database on the same box until our new SQL server is ready.

One other thing, I noticed today that almost all of my nodes were taking packet loss. I looked at all the obvious stuff, then determined that it must be something with the Orion server. I rebooted, once it was back up, I couldn't login to the System Manager, I kept getting an error "cannot connect to database" I was able to see the database from Database manager and SQL Management Studio. I re-ran the Config wizard, and all seems ok again. I'm not sure what caused this. I guess this is even more reason to move the SQL database to my new server.

vhcato

Thanks for the feedback.

FormerMember

While we're discussing 64 bit- BUMP for any updates on the x64 bit version of the Orion Event Log forwarder..

FormerMember

It's something we're considering for the future, but it's not imminent.

a1ex

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.

vhcato

We have had problems running the toolset on the box though as the launcher just crashes on startup.

Thanks for the feedback. Also, I don't believe the Toolset is yet supported on x64.