[cisco-voip] Cisco MCS-7830 upgradeable to 3.3 question

[Tim Medley]

Tim,

The Cisco CCM installer does a hardware check and looks at the BIOS to
determine what model server it is. As long as the CPU and Memory are at
the minimum required specs for the server model, you will be ok.

The 7830/1600R's are big and bulky which would cost you a bundle to have
shipped. You might try looking on ebay for a Compaq Prosignia 740, which
is what the 7820's were. It's a mini-tower and a lot less bulky than the
7830 or 7835's.

I am running 4 Prosignia 740's in my home lab, for CCM, CCC and IPCC.

There are some registry hacks and tricks that you can use to load CCM
3.3 on a non-supported hardware platform. For exmple an IBM Gl300 or a
Compaq Armada laptop. This works in varying success to bypass the Cisco
hardware detection function. This is getting harder and harder to do
each time Cisco rev's CCM, but it is an option.

CCM 4.0 should be available this week in limited availability. You have
to go through your cisco account team and request it. In March CCM
4.0(1) will be publicly available and should be downloadable from CCO.

CCM 4.0 is supposed to introduce SIP gateway trunking. You will be able
to use SIP as a gateway protocol between CCM and a SIP capable gateway.
SIP Proxy will not be part of CCM 4.0 so SIP phones will not be able to
register directly with CCM.

More and More SIP functionality should appear in each new version of
CCM, I would guess that by the end of the year, Cisco will have
implement most of the SIP functionality/features into CCM. Cisco is a
driving force behind SIP, and supports SIP in many of it's products.

Tim





-----Original Message-----
From: myattfam [mailto:myattfam at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:23 AM
To: medley at mac.com; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Cisco MCS-7830 upgradeable to 3.3 question

Thanks for the info and suggestions.  

Do you remember if the Compaq 1600R required the exact 
same hardware specs as the 7830s or could you use a 
higher speed CPU?  A buddy said there is some type of 
hardware check in 3.3 and he didn't think there was 
registry hack for it.  I bought the 3.3 software, but
haven't tried installing it on anything yet.  I'm 
checking Ebay, looking for an inexpensive box.  I work 
on a SIP only project, but want to learn the fundamentals
of the H.323 side and also pass the CIPT cert exam. 

Any idea about when CCM 4.0 will be available?  Also any 
idea about when Cisco will ship a SIP version of CCM?  
Cisco has said they plan to add it, but they never have
given us a date, just "planned". :)

Thanks again,
Tim Myatt

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Medley [mailto:medley at mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 10:00 PM
To: 'myattfam'; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Cisco MCS-7830 upgradeable to 3.3 question


Yes and yes.

I have upgraded a couple of Cisco MCS-7830's (Compaq 1600R) and a
non-cisco compaq 1600R without issue. 

Be aware that there is a good chance that the MCS7830 and/or Compaq
1600R may not be able to run CCM 4.0 without some sort of hacks.

Depending on your home lab needs/intent this may be important.

tim

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of myattfam
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:49 PM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] Cisco MCS-7830 upgradeable to 3.3 question

Would anyone be able to tell me if CallManager 3.3 can be installed on a
Cisco MCS-7830?  I would also be interested to know if a Compaq 1600R
server
can be used to run CallManager.  I am trying to get a server together
for my
home lab, of course, as cheap as possible.  Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Tim

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