We used to run Intermappers (2) on Mac Pro G4s up until around 2007. We moved from OS X to Windows 2003 and had no problems there. As of a few months ago we migrated over to Windows 2008 VMs and it's running great. I've always wanted to move to CentOS since the Intermapper servers are our only Windows boxes (in the network dept), but I haven't had the time to give it a shot.
-Christopher On 9/5/12 2:14 PM, "Pat Storr" <pst...@ncn.net> wrote: >We've been running IM on Linux for the past few years. Our experience >began long ago with Mac OS9, then early OSX. All were pretty much bullet >proof. > >A few years back we retired the ancient Mac server and tried a new Windows >Server 2003 box. It was not reliable. >We quickly moved to CentOS (a free version of Red Hat Linux) running on a >VMWare instance and we're back to bullet proof reliability. > >If you feel you need support from Red Hat, go that direction. If you're >already comfortable with Red Hat, use CentOS. > >Just my 2 cents worthŠ. > > >On 9/5/12 12:21 PM, "Randy Baker" <randy.ba...@georgiancollege.ca> wrote: > >>We have been using InterMapper for 10 years or more and we started out on >>a Mac server. >> >>In 2007 we were mandated to reduce the number of Server O/S's from 11 >>down to 2, Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux. When our lease expired >>on the Mac server in 2008, we moved InterMapper to a VWare virtualized >>RedHat Linux server. We did run into issues migrating the maps from the >>Mac to the RedHat server and due to other significant changes to our >>systems, we abandoned the maps in favour of creating new and improved >>versions. >> >>Earlier this year we wanted to increase the resources on our InterMapper >>server and the Server Group wanted us to try InterMapper and another >>server (FlowTraq) as a Windows VM in VMWare. The migration from RedHat >>to Windows was painless, but despite the additional resources on the two >>servers, both servers experienced issues that pointed to network related >>issues. Restoring InterMapper and FlowTraq on RedHat Linux eliminated >>the issues we were seeing in the Windows environment. >>We are running our RedHat Linux servers without a GUI front end. >> >>IMHO: Running InterMapper on a *NIX system vs. Windows is a technical >>issue, where OS/X vs Linux is an issue of preference. >> >>Hope this helps >>Randy Baker >>Infrastructure Security Technician, IT >>One Georgian Drive >>Barrie, ON L4M 3X9 >>(T) 705.728.1968 Ext: 1183 >>(F) 705.722.5123 >>www.georgiancollege.ca >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: InterMapper-Talk@list.dartware.com >>[mailto:InterMapper-Talk@list.dartware.com] On Behalf Of Johan Landin >>Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 12:49 PM >>To: InterMapper-Talk@list.dartware.com >>Subject: [IM-Talk] Preferred OS for an InterMapper server >> >>Dear Colleagues, >> >>We are planning to replace our old InterMapper server with new hardware. >>The current server is an Xserve (Late 2006) monitoring 1500 devices and >>running InterMapper and InterMapper Remote Access under OS X. >> >>Are there any differences between the InterMapper versions for different >>operating systems? >> >>Which operating system should be the preferred one for a new InterMapper >>server? We are considering either OS X or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for >>the new machine. >> >>Best Regards >> /Johan Landin, ITS Network >> >>_________________________________________________________________________ >>_ >>_ >>Johan Landin, PhD Tel: +46 31 772 2840 >>IT SERVICE Cell: +46 70 753 5840 >>Chalmers University of Technology Email: johan.lan...@chalmers.se >>SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden >> >>____________________________________________________________________ >>List archives: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ >>To unsubscribe: send email to: intermapper-talk-...@list.dartware.com >> >>____________________________________________________________________ >>List archives: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ >>To unsubscribe: send email to: intermapper-talk-...@list.dartware.com >> >> > > >____________________________________________________________________ >List archives: >http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ >To unsubscribe: send email to: intermapper-talk-...@list.dartware.com > > ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: intermapper-talk-...@list.dartware.com
