[cisco-voip] DMA 4.2 to 6.x staging !!!

[Jonathan Charles]

OK, found some doco...

"The host name can comprise up to 64 characters and can contain
alphanumeric characters and hyphens."

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/install/5_0/cmins504.html




Jonathan

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Jason Aarons (US)
<jason.aarons at us.didata.com> wrote:
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> When the decision was made TCP/IP didn't have a stack for DOS5.0/Windows
> 3.1, you were more likely to be running IPX/SPX then TCP/IP!
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> Note Cisco is only using the first DNS RFC with 5.1.1 installer so hostnames
> that were valid in Windows will fail with CallManager. Customers won't
> understand why the old hostname worked, but the new isn't valid when the
> hostname check is done.
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> For example 2kccm01 isn't a valid hostname because the old rfc didn't allow
> a host to begin with a number, thus CallManager install will fail when
> checking the hostname.
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> Perhaps this has been fixed in 6.1.1
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> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Voice Noob
>  Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:04 AM
>  To: Matt Slaga (US)
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>  Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>  Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] DMA 4.2 to 6.x staging !!!
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> That's because an _ is an accepted character in NetBIOS names which is what
> the computer name is. they were not trying to follow DNS standards. What I
> don't think is correct is that you can't go from an _ in the name, use DMA
> to export the information and then change then name during the upgrade
> process. I think this was a TAC person that didn't do enough research and an
> engineer that just accepted what the TAC person said as gospel. I would like
> to see something that says you can't upgrade if you have a _ in the computer
> name.
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> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Matt Slaga (US) <Matt.Slaga at us.didata.com>
> wrote:
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> This has to do with standard DNS naming.  Microsoft in their infinite wisdom
> allowed _'s even though they are not allowed in the DNS RFC.  Linux follows
> strictly to the DNS RFC which does not allow underscores in names.
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> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Voice Noob
>  Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:52 AM
>  To: Jonathan Charles
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>  Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>  Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] DMA 4.2 to 6.x staging !!!
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> Is this _ problem documented somewhere on Cisco.com? I find it hard to
> accept that you could not use an _ for the DMA export.
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> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Please do not say that you had an underscore in your old hostname...
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>  Because if you do, you cannot run DMA.
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>  We ran into this a few months ago on a 4.1 - 6.0 upgrade and we ended
>  up having to export everything via BAT and reimporting... TAC said an
>  underscore means DMA cannot be used.
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>  Jonathan
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>  On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Djokic Sinisa <sdjokic at mds.rs> wrote:
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>  > hi crew..
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>  > i'm staging for migration from CCM 4.2 to UCCM 6.x cluster and i did DMA
>  > export..
>  >
>  > so during UCCM 6.0 install when it asked me for a hostname i tried to
> enter
>  > the old one but it didn't excepted it obviously the old hostname has
>  > underscores in it..
>  >
>  > it's like COMPANY_CCM_X..
>  >
>  > so i entered new one..
>  >
>  > is that going to cause problems?..beacuse of the DMA export fiule
> containg
>  > old hostname..IP address remained the same..
>  >
>  > i'm in the middle of it so i don't have any results yet..
>  >
>  > if it would cause problems what's the soluton..
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>  > i do sincerely hope it;s not the fresh install..
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>  > thanx..
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>  > regards..
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