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Hi,

For those using OpsCenter-- is it very slow for anyone, does it run
quickly for any customers using it?

Been using it with several master servers, its so slow (5-10+ min to
load).

Any optimization tips/etc?

One ops center server per master maybe?

Justin.
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My VM that had our test OpsCenter vapourised but it was fine while it was available, certainly not obviously worse than NOM. What we did do was the tuning documented in the NOM guides to set the DB cache a bit bigger - there is a section that is basically Sybase tuning.

I admit that it was only watching a couple of very small test lab Masters. We still use NOM in production because it is not easy to upgrade - nothing to do with the product, just 'process'.

I think the best advice I can think of would be to be generous with the server specification and bear in mind that it is a database server (assuming you do it all on one server, which is not strictly required). So if your OpsCenter server does not look like your SQL*Server servers... do not want a lot of paging.

It relies heavily on TCP communication and polling, so is your DNS quick? Do you have long lists in domain search lists? I'm not sure if nbdna works on all platforms but it does have the ability to see how quick name resolution is. Slow DNS lookups multiplied by lots of servers will hurt. Hosts files are dangerous but can help speed many NBU things up.

William D L Brown

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Hi,

For those using OpsCenter-- is it very slow for anyone, does it run
quickly for any customers using it?

Been using it with several master servers, its so slow (5-10+ min to
load).

Any optimization tips/etc?

One ops center server per master maybe?

Justin.
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Hi,
Well there are several documents available on Symantec website. There is even a sizing document.
We are using OpsCenter with 3 masters and it runs smoothly after I configure database server to use 4GB of cache. It requires lots of memory. CPUS/Cores usage increases when you run reports.
Greg  
On 6 Oct 2011 01:07, "William Brown" <william.d.brown < at > gsk.com ([email]william.d.brown < at > gsk.com[/email])> wrote:

My VM that had our test OpsCenter vapourised but it was fine while it was available, certainly not obviously worse than NOM.  What we did do was the tuning documented in the NOM guides to set the DB cache a bit bigger - there is a section that is basically Sybase tuning.

I admit that it was only watching a couple of very small test lab Masters.  We still use NOM in production because it is not easy to upgrade - nothing to do with the product, just 'process'.

I think the best advice I can think of would be to be generous with the server specification and bear in mind that it is a database server (assuming you do it all on one server, which is not strictly required).  So if your OpsCenter server does not look like your SQL*Server servers... do not want a lot of paging.

It relies heavily on TCP communication and polling, so is your DNS quick?  Do you have long lists in domain search lists?   I'm not sure if nbdna works on all platforms but it does have the ability to see how quick name resolution is.  Slow DNS lookups multiplied by lots of servers will hurt.  Hosts files are dangerous but can help speed many NBU things up.

William D L Brown


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One thing to note, is that OpsCenter runs about 1000% percent better on Windows than on Solaris. A product manager ran a report from his laptop faster than a brand new Sun server running solaris.

Hi

Interesting, I wonder if the same holds true for Linux.

Justin




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One thing to note, is that OpsCenter runs about 1000% percent better on Windows than on Solaris. A product manager ran a report from his laptop faster than a brand new Sun server running solaris.

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I'd love to try it on linux and solaris cause it's a POS on windows...

Scott Chapman
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Hi

Interesting, I wonder if the same holds true for Linux.

Justin




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One thing to note, is that OpsCenter runs about 1000% percent better on Windows than on Solaris. A product manager ran a report from his laptop faster than a brand new Sun server running solaris.

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We've upgraded Windows hardware TWICE to try and keep OpsCenter working well for us. But we aren't your "usual" place for backups either. We are larger than most shops...period.

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I'd love to try it on linux and solaris cause it's a POS on windows...

Scott Chapman
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Hi

Interesting, I wonder if the same holds true for Linux.

Justin




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