[cisco-voip] UCM Upgrade Poll

Anthony Holloway avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 16:46:11 EDT 2017


Wow, it's kind of cool that you're even asking.  Thanks for that.

Already I can see this is going to be a wide gap in responses. Partner vs
end user, this customer vs that customer, this version vs that version,
this scenario vs that one, and on, and on, and on.

1) I feel like it's always a bug (100%), in that, developers should code
solutions that can work around most issues.  E.g., I had an upgrade fail on
a CUCM because the ntp was 0.us.pool.ntp.org, despite CUCM happily syncing
to it in the current version.  OR Common partition not having enough space,
when devs could just purge old logs to make room, or simply make better
logs to begin with (I do admit, moving to compress logs [TAR/GZ] was sweet)

2) This is a painful one for me, but I put in a lot of time preparing for
an upgrade.  A large portion of the time is, in my opinion, wasted finding
the right documentation and then trying to interpret it.  Here's a fun one:
there's over 100 documents an Engineer needs to reference in preparation
for what I would consider a low-medium level environment.  I've posted this
before, but I'll post it again, I have a matrix of documents I need to
reference during the planning and execution phase of an upgrade:



On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:38 AM Ryan Ratliff (rratliff) <rratliff at cisco.com>
wrote:

> Quick 2 question poll, feel free to unicast or share your response with
> the group.
>
> 1. When you or your customers have a UCM or IMP upgrade fail, what
> percentage of failures are due to a bug vs something in the environment
> (user error, db updates, etc)?
> % bug:
> % not a bug:
> Yes it’s a very subjective question but that’s ok, use your judgement.
>
> 2. When an upgrade goes smoothly with no issues, how much time do you put
> into the planning and preparation for the upgrade (not the execution)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ryan
>
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