[cisco-voip] DMA 4.2 to 6.x staging !!!

[Jonathan Charles]

I am seriously having no luck finding the bug (another engineer
contacted TAC and he has since departed...)


Jonathan

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Voice Noob <voicenoob at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's because an _ is an accepted character in NetBIOS names which is what
> the computer name is. they were not trying to follow DNS standards. What I
> don't think is correct is that you can't go from an _ in the name, use DMA
> to export the information and then change then name during the upgrade
> process. I think this was a TAC person that didn't do enough research and an
> engineer that just accepted what the TAC person said as gospel. I would like
> to see something that says you can't upgrade if you have a _ in the computer
> name.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Matt Slaga (US) <Matt.Slaga at us.didata.com>
> wrote:
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> > This has to do with standard DNS naming.  Microsoft in their infinite
> wisdom allowed _'s even though they are not allowed in the DNS RFC.  Linux
> follows strictly to the DNS RFC which does not allow underscores in names.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Voice Noob
> > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:52 AM
> > To: Jonathan Charles
> >
> > Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] DMA 4.2 to 6.x staging !!!
> >
> >
> >
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> > Is this _ problem documented somewhere on Cisco.com? I find it hard to
> accept that you could not use an _ for the DMA export.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Please do not say that you had an underscore in your old hostname...
> >
> > Because if you do, you cannot run DMA.
> >
> > We ran into this a few months ago on a 4.1 - 6.0 upgrade and we ended
> > up having to export everything via BAT and reimporting... TAC said an
> > underscore means DMA cannot be used.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
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> >
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Djokic Sinisa <sdjokic at mds.rs> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > hi crew..
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > i'm staging for migration from CCM 4.2 to UCCM 6.x cluster and i did DMA
> > > export..
> > >
> > > so during UCCM 6.0 install when it asked me for a hostname i tried to
> enter
> > > the old one but it didn't excepted it obviously the old hostname has
> > > underscores in it..
> > >
> > > it's like COMPANY_CCM_X..
> > >
> > > so i entered new one..
> > >
> > > is that going to cause problems?..beacuse of the DMA export fiule
> containg
> > > old hostname..IP address remained the same..
> > >
> > > i'm in the middle of it so i don't have any results yet..
> > >
> > > if it would cause problems what's the soluton..
> > >
> > > i do sincerely hope it;s not the fresh install..
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > thanx..
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > regards..
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Sinisa Djokic
> > >
> > > System Engineer
> > >  CCNP,CCDA,CQS-CWLDS,CS-CIPTDS,CS-CIPCCES Cisco Certified
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