NTA 4.0 FAQ

Hi Jacob,

For those that do not wish to use the 64bit version of NTA that migrates away from Microsoft SQL and uses the Flow Storage Database, what options do they have and how long will they be able to dodge the "new" NTA platform?

It has been mentioned that the 32bit variant will remain MS SQL based. Does this mean that you will be able to download two variants of NTA or does the single installer package ask you what type of setup you wish to deploy?

Last but not least, is there an EOL set on the 32bit variant of NTA or will development continue in parallel?

Hi Deltona,

We don't have a date set for when we will stop running on 32 bits, but my guess is that it wil come fairly soon after 4.0.

As far as the versions running on 32 bits, 3.x and 4.0 (and possibly others after this, again, we don't know yet), they will be supported following our usual process, which means at least one year aftre we announce their end of engineering. E.g., when we will announce 4.0 end of engineering, we will still support 4.0 for at least 1 year.

So this gives you some time on 32bits platform, but of course no new features and improvements

Hi Francois,

Thanks for the swift reply. I think everyone is wondering about one more detail and that is; will the coming version releases of the other Orion modules (NPM 10.7, SAM 6.X, IPAM 3.X etc etc) be backwards compatible with the 32bit version of NTA?

Is it too early to tell?

Hard to say for sure, early, but the usual practice is that the next one of each other product should be backwards compatible, yes.

Does this mean the CBQOS granularity is now set to 1 minute as well, and doesn't aggregate up? Or is that only for Netflow data?

CBQoS is untouched, this is only for the flow data. CBQoS is SNMP polling based and you can control the polling frequency in NTA Settings / "CBQoS Polling" resource. Default is 300sec but you can change it, in 4.0 or in versions before 4.0

Hi Jacob,

We are receiving 687K flows per second so what will be your recommendation for NTA server specs and secondly we have lot of SQL report built for NTA so Is there any integration or export available from Storage Database to SQL?

687K flows per second: is this peak or averaged across a fairly long period of time?

Old custom reports have been archived for you to reference, you will need to rebuild those reports using the new web reporting interface that ships with 4.0. If you are unable to write a similar report with the new web reporting, you can always use the SolarWinds API/SWQL

687K flows is an average.we have 800 interfaces which are getting monitored from NTA.is there any recommendation for it ?

Wow this is exciting!