[cisco-voip] CallManager and IPCC Express on VMWare

Sun Jul 2 12:55:23 EDT 2006

Actually, I do something a little easier to replicate customer's
networks... I just backed up the PUB with BARS and restored it on the
VM...

This doesn't replicate the Windows environment, but at least I can
make changes to things and see what I break.

Jonathan

On 7/2/06, Ted Nugent <tednugent69 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Nice write up Jonathan..
>
> Another way of handling this is to ghost your MCS
> server, Ghost is back to a blank VM and use P2V to
> update your virtual drivers. This has worked
> flawlessly for me in the past especially if I need to
> recreate a customer scenario or a sticky upgrade
> procedure (that is if they will give me the down time
> to Ghost their servers).
>
> In either event you're still stuck upgrading from
> CM4.x to CM5 to get a working license as Jonathan
> mentioned. If anyone has some tricks of getting around
> this I'd be very interested in hearing them.
>
> Also, just a note which has bitten me in the past,
> using the P2V method don't uninstall the HP Utility or
> your DBL Monitor service will likely hang on your
> SUBs. You can get by all the service control errors by
> simply disabling the services.
>
>
>
> --- Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have been getting a bunch of emails lately on how
> > to install
> > CallManager (et al) on VMWare...
> >
> > Well, I am going to just post it...
> >
> > First, create a VM, tell it you want Windows 2000
> > Server, make the
> > disk partition 20GB and SCSI, give it 256MB of RAM
> > for CCM 3.3 or 4.0
> > or IPCC 3.5  and 1GB of RAM for CCM4.1 or 4.2
> >
> > Install WIndows 2000 Server, make sure you install
> > terminal services and SNMP.
> >
> > The attached txt file is the registry hack, change
> > its extension to
> > .reg and double click it (say yes, you want to merge
> > it into the
> > registry). Congratulations, you just turned your
> > VMWare box into a
> > Cisco-approved MCS.
> >
> > Installl OS image 4.2 (get it from Cisco, but if you
> > don't have a
> > priviledged CCO login, I can't really help you).
> >
> > If you are installing CCM4.1, the attached
> > shutdown.exr file needs to
> > be changed to an .exe and dropped into the C:\utils
> > directory before
> > installing CallManager (don't ask, I have no idea
> > where it originally
> > comes from... probably the original OS load that we
> > didn't do).
> >
> > Install CCM4.1 (or whatever).
> >
> >
> > Now, CCM5 is a bit trickier... You need to follow
> > these instructions carefully:
> >
> >
> http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=41743&tstart=0&messageID=407547
> >
> > However, I found that you didn't actually need to
> > boot off of the Red
> > Hat CD to hack Linux...
> >
> > The downside is that you can't steal a license file
> > for CCM5 the way
> > you can for Unity (for Unity, you just change the
> > MAC address in
> > Windows 2000 to match your license file), well,
> > since you can't get
> > into the Linux side, you have to do it from VMWare,
> > and VMWare will
> > only let you change the last two octets of the MAC
> > address (unlikely
> > to get a match from Cisco).
> >
> > Me, I did the upgrade method.
> >
> > Install CCM4.0... run DMA... restore DMA to your
> > CCM5 box... Get
> > license file from Cisco by virtue of the fact that
> > you upgraded... it
> > worked, sort of...
> >
> >
> >
> > Jonathan
> > > Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco Systems]
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco
> > Systems\Application 2.0]
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco
> > Systems\Application 2.0\1.0]
> > "CCR_INSTALL"=dword:00000001
> > "InstallPath"="C:\\Program Files\\wfavvid"
> > "PatchLevel"=dword:00000000
> > "InstallType"="Cisco CRA Administrator"
> > "Version"=" 3.5(3)"
> > "RebootRequired"="1"
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco
> > Systems\Application 2.0\CCNDirectory]
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco
> > Systems\Application 2.0\CCNDirectory\AttrPool]
> > "OpenConnections"=dword:00000001
> > "PoolSize"=dword:00000005
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco
> > Systems\Application 2.0\CCNDirectory\AuthPool]
> > "PoolSize"=dword:00000005
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco Systems\CRA]
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco
> > Systems\CRA\CCNDirectory]
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco
> > Systems\CRA\CCNDirectory\AttrPool]
> > "PoolSize"=dword:00000005
> > "OpenConnections"=dword:00000001
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco
> > Systems\CRA\CCNDirectory\AuthPool]
> > "PoolSize"=dword:00000005
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco
> > Systems\CRA\CurrentVersion]
> > "TomcatPath"="C:\\Program Files\\wfavvid"
> > "CodecType"=dword:00000001
> > "LicenseFilePath"="C:\\ipcclic"
> > "InstallPath"="C:\\Program Files\\wfavvid"
> > "PatchLevel"=dword:00000000
> > "InstallType"="Cisco CRA Administrator"
> > "Version"=" 3.5(3)"
> > "RebootRequired"="1"
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco
> > Systems\CRA\Jakarta Isapi Redirector]
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco
> > Systems\CRA\Jakarta Isapi Redirector\1.0]
> >
> "extension_uri"="/cisco_cra_jakarta/cisco_cra_isapi_redirect.dll"
> > "log_file"="C:\\Program
> > Files\\wfavvid\\tomcat_appadmin\\logs\\isapi.log"
> > "log_level"="emerg"
> >
> "worker_file"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\wfavvid\\TOMCAT~1\\conf\\WORKER~1.PRO"
> >
> "worker_mount_file"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\wfavvid\\TOMCAT~1\\conf\\URIWOR~1.PRO"
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco Systems\CRA
> > Language Pack]
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco Systems\CRA
> > Language Pack\CurrentVersion]
> > "InstalledLanguages"="en_US"
> > "InstallPath"="c:\\program
> > files\\wfavvid\\prompts\\system"
> > "SystemPromptPath"="c:\\program
> > files\\wfavvid\\prompts\\system"
> > "UserPromptPath"="c:\\program
> > files\\wfavvid\\prompts\\user"
> > "SystemGrammarPath"="c:\\program
> > files\\wfavvid\\grammars\\system"
> > "UserGrammar"="c:\\program
> > files\\wfavvid\\grammars\\user"
> > "Version"=" 3.5(3)"
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco Systems\Model]
> > "Hardware"="MCS7825H02"
> > "Speed"="3067"
> > "Memory"="1024"
> > @=""
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco Systems\Spirian]
> > "ProductKey"="BTOOVQESCCJUIEBI"
> > "Deployed"="0000000100000100"
> > "CRA3.1"="6B6075787D62646361661D7170751D7F72756E62"
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Spirian]
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Spirian\CRA]
> > "CMVersion"="4.0(2)a"
> > "CMVersionValue"="4000002000"
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Spirian\System Info]
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Spirian\System Info\OS
> > Image]
> > "Version"="2000.2.6"
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Spirian\System Info\OS
> > Service Release]
> > "Version"="2000.2.6sr8"
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Spirian\System
> > Info\sticall.exe]
> > "Version"="3.2.60"
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Spirian\System
> > Info\stiCraSet.exe]
> > "Version"="3.5.35"
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Spirian\System
> > Info\stiJtapiUpdate.exe]
> > "Version"="1.0.18"
> >
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Spirian\System
> > Info\STISTAGE.exe]
> > "Version"="3.3.128"
> >
> >
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