[cisco-voip] Unity failover wizard

[Ortiz, Carlos]

We set up Unity FO about 6 months ago and I thought it was fairly
straight forward (needed a little TAC assistance).  We had some issues
with the system failing over for no reason but found out that we had a
duplex mismatch on one of the servers.  Since that's been fixed it has
been working fine.  When we manually fail from one server to the other
it works like a charm.  I think its worth putting in the extra effort to
avoid issues down the road but all in all our experience with it has
been pretty good.

Carlos

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ted Nugent
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 6:13 PM
To: Ed Leatherman
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Unity failover wizard

I pray for your sake that they resolved some of the
problems with FO, it's been about a year since I've
had the pleasure of working with it so theres hope I
guess. I've been involved with about 10 different FO
installs and I think it was an even split on customers
that stuck with it and customers that demanded their
money back. I've got some SERIOUS TAC time logged on
Unity FO and still wake up in a cold sweat some nights
dreaming about it. 

I mean give it a shot but if it starts to go south
then jump ship and get yourself a spare drive with a
base Unity install and use DIRT as your DR procedure,
or a full server backup, but the supported backup
solutions tend to be prices with the exchange and SQL
agents that accompany it..
My $0.02


--- Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Ted, We'll keep that in mind. We also found
> that our primary Unity
> server and the new secondary server were put in
> different OU's within AD and
> are getting different policies pushed at them. We
> are on the corporate AD,
> so have to wait till tomorrow to get that fixed. at
> least we have a few
> things to look at now along with the workgroup
> names.
> 
> Doesn't really give me warm and fuzzy feelings about
> unity failover. :)
> 
> Ed
> 
> On 12/17/06, Ted Nugent <tednugent69 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I know exactly what you're going through! I
> spent
> > days working on this exact problem about a year
> ago
> > and it turned out to be an issue with browser
> service.
> > In our scenario the customer had the CM workgroup
> name
> > "voice" the same as the Unity domain which was
> causing
> > some serious browser election issues! Changing the
> CM
> > workgroup to "CM" resolved the problem for us. The
> > browser election is certainly your problem but
> fixing
> > it can be tricky. I can't remember the exact reg
> > setting but you prevent the servers from
> contributing
> > in the browser election on all your servers and
> force
> > just your DCs to be the only servers that can be
> > elected, they should be by default but I find
> thats
> > not always the case.
> >
> > Also,
> > I hate to say it because I really do like Unity
> but
> > Unity FO is by far the worst product that Cisco
> has to
> > offer. I foresee many hours on the phone with TAC
> in
> > your near future. :-/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone setup Unity failover on version 4.0(4)?
> > >
> > > We are trying to configure failover, the second
> > > server is setup and ready
> > > but when we run the failover wizard we have to
> pick
> > > the failover server out
> > > of a list of servers in the domain but it doesnt
> > > appear in the list. It does
> > > show up in AD users & computers, can ping it,
> etc
> > > etc - but the wizard won't
> > > let me actually type the name of the server in,
> i
> > > have to pick it from the
> > > list where it doesnt appear. Anyone seen this or
> > > have any ideas why it
> > > doesnt show up?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ed Leatherman
> > > Senior Voice Engineer
> > > West Virginia University
> > > Telecommunications and Network Operations
> > > >
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> 
> -- 
> Ed Leatherman
> Senior Voice Engineer
> West Virginia University
> Telecommunications and Network Operations
> 


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