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It’s important to know which kind of DSN you are suppose to check when you are Troubleshooting ODBC Connection.

If you want to check ODBC Connection on x64 system, you can check or create an ODBC Connection(DSN) for 32 Bit application and also use it for 64 Bit application.

32-bit applications will only look for ODBC connections created in the 32-bit, and 64-bits applications will look for ODBC connections from the 64-bit. 

So if you want to configure DSN for 32-bit application on 64-Bit OS you will have to use:

1. C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe(Used to check ODBC for Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager)

You want to do the same on 64-bit application on 64-Bit OS you can use:

2. C:\Windows\System32\odbcad32.exe

Note: In case of Symantec Endpoint Protection...

Hello all,

This is my first blog post, but I hope to continue these in the future as situations arise, to help others with their SEP Deployments.

At my Organization we currently have 2 SEP Managers (MR4 MP1), that are replicating between each other. Our primary site is running on a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 Machine and has its DB on a separate server running SQL 2005 SP2 on a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 machine. Our Secondary Site is on a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 Machine running SQL 2005 SP2 on the same machine. These Sites are connected over a DS3 WAN Link approx. 200 Mi apart.

This past weekend the blade that is running the primary sites SQL DB failed, and the SEP Manager informed all of our administrators approx. 5-10 min prior to our other monitoring solution. I know that this looks bad for our primary server monitoring system, however SEP alerted us to a Database Down incident first, which got the ball rolling, and it also pointed out that we need to fine tune our primary...