[cisco-voip] periodic restarts still required for UCCx on RHEL?

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

Thanks everyone!

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> On Mar 3, 2015, at 1:47 PM, "Jason Aarons (AM)" <jason.aarons at dimensiondata.com> wrote:
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> So I don’t believe in rebooting servers night to clear the cob webs.  However if you have the right tools you could check memory and watch for memory leaks etc.
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> However I like to patch/reboot at least once a year (or more often say quarterly) during a maintenance window.  I like to know that a utils system restart will actually work.  I’d rather testing it during a maintenance window then have a data center power loss on a weekday be the testing mechanism.
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> Everything you get will be an opinion.   Based on experience you can get burned either way J  It’s really about risk and mitigating risk.  I once saw a trading floor unix server that had red tape 4ft around it, getting near it could cause a reboot costing millions. They were happy to never touch it.
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> From: cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Lelio Fulgenzi
> Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 9:53 AM
> To: Cisco VOIP
> Subject: [cisco-voip] periodic restarts still required for UCCx on RHEL?
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> My colleague opened up a TAC case for a problem we were having with UCCx. Turned out, a component had to be restarted. The TAC engineer was surprised our system was up and running for 150 days and suggested that we restart the servers periodically, say every 90 days.
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> I thought this was going to go away with the upgrade from v7 to v9, moving away from Windows' memory issues, etc.
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> Are people still finding they have to periodically reboot servers? Is this the official stance from the TAC?
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> I mean, a yearly restart I can appreciate, but every 90 days?
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> Yeeesh.
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> Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
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> Computing and Communications Services (CCS)
> University of Guelph
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