[cisco-voip] Venting about Java

[Simon, Bill]

The incompatibilities between Java Runtimes needed for various Cisco VoIP
components are killing me.  I've been griping at a TAC guy for a few days
now but I see that it is probably hopeless.  All I'm probably doing is
frustrating him, too.

So what's a systems administrator to do?  I have a system set up for remote
admin and would like to use it for CallManager Administration, CCM Realtime
Monitoring Tool, Unity Admin, and IPCC Express admin and Realtime Reporting.

CCM Administration only seem to work with Microsoft Java.  (Unity too.)

RTMT installs JRE 1.5.0-something and uses that.

IPCC Realtime Reporting INSISTS on JRE 1.3.1.

If I install all three of these, nothing works.  They all see the other
runtimes and barf or complain.  RTMT might work, actually, but what good is
this if CCM Admin doesn't work!

Right now I'm down to having the MS Java runtime and JRE 1.5 installed,
coexisting nicely, with APPLET settings turned completely off for the Sun
JRE so that the Microsoft one is invoked by IE for CCM Admin.  And RTMT
works.  But I see no way to get IPCC Realtime Reporting to work.

The TAC guy told me just to log into the consoles of each server to
administer.  ha!  I sent him back to the drawing board after that answer but
I don't know that anything better will come back.

Bill