[cisco-voip] VCS Expressway upgrade, 8.7 to 12.5

[Jonathan Charles]

This is a legacy Tandberg VCS for video only... no MRA, no remote phones...
just inbound and outbound sip video...


Jonathan

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:44 PM Pawlowski, Adam <ajp26 at buffalo.edu> wrote:

> We’re at 12.5.3 and probably moving to 12.5.5/12.5.6 somewhere in the
> Holiday timeframe when everything quiets down a bit.
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> There hasn’t been really any significant issue upgrading from 8 -> 12, but
> there have been a couple of bugs that largely are all resolved by deleting
> and rebuilding whatever the thing is that is misbehaving.
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> The requirement for the _*cup*_login and _cisco-uds SRVs went away though
> it still endlessly logs a warning about not finding them, but it will work.
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> You do also gain the ability to play with the openssl cipher strings but
> in my limited experience trying to change those to bump them up a notch, it
> ends up breaking XMPP or something.
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> Adam
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> *From:* cisco-voip <cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net> *On Behalf Of *Jonathan
> Charles
> *Sent:* Friday, November 15, 2019 11:59 AM
> *To:* Ryan Huff <ryanhuff at outlook.com>
> *Cc:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] VCS Expressway upgrade, 8.7 to 12.5
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> Thanks, the latest is 12.5.6, released last week, I am avoiding it like
> the plague...and the bug fix doesn't apply to us.
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> I am going with 12.5.5 (released in August).
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> I already have release keys (Cisco AM sent them over)...
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> Hybrid services are on a separate VCS-C that is already 12.5.
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> My plan is to get new certs if we have any issues
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> Thanks!
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> Jonathan
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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:46 AM Ryan Huff <ryanhuff at outlook.com> wrote:
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> A couple of thoughts for you...
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>    - Get the software release key for 12.x now (you'll be asked to enter
>    it during the upgrade in the GUI). You'll need to work with TAC > GLO for
>    this if (and I assume this would be your case) the existing 8.7 serial is
>    active in Cisco's licensing system. The caveat to trying to do this with
>    Cisco's self-service license re-host tool is that while the 8.7 serial is
>    active, it won't allow you to assign the new 12.x software release PAK to
>    the serial because the serial is already assigned to another software
>    release key.
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>    - Take a backup first, your only roll back option is to re-install 8.7
>       and restore the backup.
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>    - Your VMware Hypervisor needs to be 6.0/5/7.
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>    - If you have Hybrid Services configured, make sure the management
>    connector is up to date first.
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>    - SSL Certificate validation changed a bit in 8.8+
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>    - Verify proper forward / reverse DNS for all the relevant touch points
>       - Make sure the Expressway certificate trust is up-to-date with all
>       the current CUCM,CUC,IMP identity certificates (self-signed) or CA
>       certificates (public CA signed certificates).
>       - no duplicate certificates in the Expressway trusts
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> Beyond that, just pay attention to the caveats list in the upgrade doc for
> your version of 12.5.x (12.5.4 is the latest I think).
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> Thanks,
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> Ryan
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> *From:* cisco-voip <cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net> on behalf of
> Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, November 15, 2019 10:57 AM
> *To:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> *Subject:* [cisco-voip] VCS Expressway upgrade, 8.7 to 12.5
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> Can we just upgrade directly or do we need to go to an intermediary
> version first?
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> Also, any gotchas besides new certificates?
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> Jonathan
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