[cisco-voip] UCM Upgrade

[Jeff Mottishaw]

I take it back. I had tested installing the latest 6.0 patch and was
still editing /dev/hda1. Once I edited /dev/hda2 everything worked.
Thanks for the new ideas.


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Jeff Mottishaw <mottie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, I tried following this guide but so far no luck. The Linux
> side of things looks fine but CallManager isn't liking it.
>
> http://www.blindhog.net/how-to-change-the-mac-addres-on-a-call-manager-56-server/
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Matthew Ballard <mballard at otis.edu> wrote:
>> Officially, VMWare can't spoof MAC addresses.  It is possible, but it's a
>> pain.  In Windows you can't spoof it in the Windows driver.  For UCM, it
>> would require manually modifying and XML file on the server, but last I
>> checked it was more difficult than it was worth.
>>
>>
>>
>> Matthew Ballard
>> Network Manager
>> Otis College of Art and Design
>> mballard at otis.edu
>>
>> Sent from my Palm Pre
>> ________________________________
>> On Mar 19, 2010 7:29 PM, Jeff Mottishaw <mottie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >From my understanding VMware cannot spoof arbitrary MAC addresses.
>> They must be VMware specific MAC addresses in the format
>> 00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ.
>>
>> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=219&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=69266812&stateId=1%200%2069270528
>>
>> I have tried installing in VMware and then converting to Hyper-V but
>> networking does not function.
>>
>> Unfortunately I can't move forward with "not many changes". That is
>> not acceptable to our users, especially without notification of the
>> changes or training on the new
>> version.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Dennis Heim <Dennis.Heim at cdw.com> wrote:
>>> You are looking at a 2 stage upgrade if you go to 7.1(3)x. There really
>>> are not many user changes between 6.x and 7.x
>>>
>>> Dennis Heim
>>> Network Voice Engineer
>>> CDW  Advanced Technology Services
>>> 11711 N. Meridian Street, Suite 225
>>> Carmel, IN  46032
>>>
>>> 317.569.4255 Office
>>> 317.569.4201 Fax
>>> 317.694.6070 Cell
>>> dennis.heim at cdw.com
>>> www.berbee.com
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>>> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Mottishaw
>>> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:53 PM
>>> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>>> Subject: [cisco-voip] UCM Upgrade
>>>
>>> We have a Call Manager cluster (pub + sub) that is horribly out of date
>>> (6.0.1.2000-3). We have intentionally avoiding updating because our phone
>>> users are all billable resources and some do not deal with change very well.
>>> Since we have no idea how our complex config will look on the new versions
>>> we can't come up with a training manual, etc etc. We are now running into a
>>> couple bugs (Extension Mobility and Call Parking) that are fixed in newer
>>> versions.
>>>
>>> I'm writing to ask how you all deal with testing updates. I initially
>>> looked at running a CallManager lab in VMware to give our admin staff a
>>> chance to try (manually change the TFTP server on their phones) the update
>>> before we rolled it out to the production server but the licensing
>>> limitations have temporarily killed that idea.
>>>
>>> If we roll out the upgrade on a Friday, have our admin staff come in on
>>> Saturday to test can we safely roll back to the previous version (backup
>>> partition) on Sunday provided we don't make any changes to the
>>> configuration?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your help and feedback.
>>>
>>> Jeff
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