[cisco-voip] Callmanager upgrade 4.1 >>> 5.1

Tue May 8 00:53:31 EDT 2007

That is absolutely idiotic.

What if you are doing a server replacement for a 3.3 to 6.0 server? How
would you do it???

Jonathan

On 5/7/07, Matt Slaga (US) <Matt.Slaga at us.didata.com> wrote:
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>  Interesting.  Cisco was hit hard on this at the UC 6.0 Partner Beta
> training, and the IPC BU repeated many times that the phones had to be
> registered to be counted in the license file.
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> *From:* Jonathan Charles [mailto:jonvoip at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, May 07, 2007 11:59 AM
> *To:* Matt Slaga (US)
> *Cc:* cbomba at s4nets.com; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Callmanager upgrade 4.1 >>> 5.1
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> This is NOT true.
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> I just did an upgrade (3.3 to 5.1)... and we built a new server with
> CCM3.3, restored the backup (in a lab, no phones present), upgraded to 4.1,
> ran DMA and upgraded to 5.1 and restored the DMA data.
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> The license was for all of the phones configured (zero phones were
> registered at the time DMA was run), and the customer had a full upgrade
> license for all configured phones.
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> Jonathan
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> On 5/7/07, *Matt Slaga (US)* <Matt.Slaga at us.didata.com> wrote:
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> Actually, this is not the case.  It will only generate DLUs for phones
> that are registered with the CallManager server.  It will skip any
> device that is not registered and not count it in the DLU list.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net ] On Behalf Of Christopher M.
> Bomba
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:05 AM
> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [cisco-voip] Callmanager upgrade 4.1 >>> 5.1
>
> Who said you had to buy the phones.  You can just put phones in with
> bogus MAC addresses and it will generate DLUs for those.  I thought they
> had to be registered but turns out that they just have to be present in
> the system.  You can create IP communicators or any other phone to boost
> the DLUs.  That is a big problem since anybody can do this.
>
> Chris
>
> --original message--
>
> thanks Ed for your reply, yes you are right I contacted Partner help and
> they told me that during the upgrade a file will be generated that when
> given to cisco they will give us back the DLUs equivalent to what
> configured on the system. I think this is an illegal workaround for the
> lic. issue as by that someone could buy phones without lic. and then
> setup them with CM 4.1 and then upgrade and he will be having a DLUs for
> free. I think Cisco has to do something to solve this.
>
> Thanks and Best Regards
>
> Ahmed A. Elnagar
> Network Field Engineer
>
> Advanced Computer Technology (ACT)
> 16 Fawzy Ramah St.Off Shehab St.Mohandessin, Giza, Egypt
> Postal Code:12411 Cairo Egypt
>
> Mob: +2010-2833868
> Website: www.act-eg.com
> E-mail: aelnagar at act-eg.com
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Ed Leatherman [mailto: ealeatherman at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wed 02-May-07 3:16 PM
> To: Ahmed Elnagar
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Callmanager upgrade 4.1 >>> 5.1
>
>
> hi Ahmed,
>
> When you upgrade, callmanager will generate a temporary license for all
> the devices you have configured from 4.1. If I understand correctly, you
> just have to send that off to cisco's licensing group and have it
> converted to a real 5.2 license with the appropriate number of DLUs. If
> its anything like Unity licensing, the turn-around is pretty quick. I'm
> assuming you need a SASU agreement for callmanager for them to do it.
>
> We are getting ready to do the same process here this summer with our
> 4.1 system.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Ed
>
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>
> On 5/2/07, Ahmed Elnagar <aelnagar at act-eg.com > wrote:
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>         Hello all;
>
>         A customer wants to upgrade from CM 4.1 to 5.1, what I am
> worried about is the licsences issue. How will I get the DLUs for
> callmanager 5.1 we have a lic. with each phone but how we will get the
> DLUs??
>
>
>         Thanks and Best Regards
>
>         Ahmed A. Elnagar
>         Network Field Engineer
>
>         Advanced Computer Technology (ACT)
>         16 Fawzy Ramah St.Off Shehab St.Mohandessin , Giza, Egypt
>         Postal Code:12411 Cairo Egypt
>
>         Mob : +2010-2833868
>         Website: www.act-eg.com <http://www.act-eg.com/ >
>         E-mail: aelnagar at act-eg.com
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> Ed Leatherman
> Senior Voice Engineer
> West Virginia University
> Telecommunications and Network Operations
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