Network Interfaces vs Interfaces (64 bit)-
I've been having lots of problems over the last few months with collectors having no data or spotty data, and huge amounts of batchscript threads stuck in queue and warnings on my status page (on the collector) about the batchscript being jammed and too many dead tasks. And I've had lots of collector restarts due to dead tasks.
It seems the culprit is the Network Interfaces datasource. I guess Interfaces (64 bit)- is older, but I actually prefer it.
I had a deployment of 12 collectors that were using NI and the batchscripts, which apparently Network Interfaces uses for its operation, and I was getting all kinds of batchscript collector alerts and what-not. So I asked an LM engineer and they told me that it wasnt really fully optimized, and the threads stuck in queue were insane, even though I was using double extra large collectors.
So since it was a new deployment, I switched to the older Interfaces (64 bit)-, and disabled polling on NI completely, and PROBLEM SOLVED. Now my 12 collectors and my 8000+ devices are collecting smooth as silk.
Is this a known issue? Or has anyone had a similar problem? Whats the deal with Network Interfaces? Is it still viable to use the older one that has no dependencies or bottlenecks? Seems to be.
Thanks!