[cisco-voip] CCM Upgrade - Best Practices

Lelio Fulgenzi lelio at uoguelph.ca
Wed Jan 9 08:42:55 EST 2008


I'm not sure what you're using to "disable" CallManager, but we tried this once (perhaps we de-activated?), and all the service parameters for that subscriber were lost (set to default) and anything that relied on that subscriber, i.e. call park numbers, callmanager group entry, etc, was deleted!

It did not make for a fun time.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: STEVEN CASPER 
  To: Ryan Ratliff 
  Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:36 AM
  Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CCM Upgrade - Best Practices


  I like the idea of :

  1. stopping the CM service on the server to fail everyone over to next server
  2. disable or set to manual startup the CallManager  
      service on the servers

   Does it matter if this is done via CCM Control Center in Serviceability to stop the CCM service and Service Activation to disable the CCM service or can these actions be done under Win2k Services? 

   Does the Call Manager service need to be running on a server during an upgrade of the application or the OS?

  Steve

  >>> "Ryan Ratliff" <rratliff at cisco.com> 10/24/2007 11:44 AM >>>
  The easiest way to ensure phones don't register to servers during the  
  upgrade is to disable or set to manual startup the CallManager  
  service on the servers being upgraded.   That way you can do the  
  upgrade, reboot the server, and take a look at things before having  
  phones fail back to it.

  -Ryan

  On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:53 AM, STEVEN CASPER wrote:


    Looking for some advice for the best way to do Call Manager  
  upgrades to minimize system disruptions. From a recent ES doc:

  "You can minimize call-processing interruptions if you register all  
  devices
  to servers that are running the same version of Cisco CallManager  
  during the
  entire upgrade process; i.e., you register all devices to the backup  
  Cisco
  CallManager servers or the primary Cisco CallManager servers, but not to
  both types of servers."

    I understand what the ES doc is saying what I am not sure about is  
  the best practice to ensure that all devices stay registered on the  
  backup or primary servers during the upgrade. Should you manipulate  
  your Call Manager groups during the upgrade?

    For instance all of our devices are registered to Subscribers A, B,  
  C, & D. We have two back up subscribers X & Y. Do we:

  1. Upgrade the Publisher.
  2. Upgrade X & Y
  3. Change our Call Manager Groups so X & Y subs are the primary.
  4. Reset all devices so they re-register to X & Y.
  5. Upgrade A, B, C, & D.
  6. Change Call Manager groups so A, B, C, & D are primary again.
  7. Reset devices.



  Thanks!

  Steve Casper
  Voice Technologies
  M&T Bank
  (410) 347-6026
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