[cisco-voip] Expressway Cluster failover for MRA

Brian Meade bmeade90 at vt.edu
Tue Jul 7 16:46:21 EDT 2020


Those scenarios seem to refer to cross-connecting separate standalone C/E
pairs.  In the case of 2 standalone C/E pairs, neither knows about the
other so it shouldn't be an issue.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 3:40 PM Mark H. Turpin <mturpin at covene.com> wrote:

> I don't believe running unclustered is supported though.
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> The way I interpreted this section in Unsupported Deployments:
> https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/expressway/config_guide/X12-6/exwy_b_mra-expressway-deployment-guide/exwy_b_mra-expressway-deployment-guide_chapter_011.html read
> to me like you needed to have your C's and E's clustered for your UC zones.
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> That's just my interpretation, though, I might be wrong.
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> Gerence Guan <cisco.guan at gmail.com>
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> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Expressway Cluster failover for MRA
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> @Brian
> Clustering is not that critical. As long as the Jabber can register back
> via the DR without any manual system level changes. It is acceptable even
> if users need to logout and login jaber again.
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> @Anthony
> it would be good if someone has that table. It will help a lot.
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> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 1:57 AM Anthony Holloway <
> avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Brian,
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> This wouldn't support failover in all scenarios though, correct?  E.g.,
> CUCM sub to sub failover.
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> Does anyone have a nice table of failover scenarios covered and not
> covered by expressway clustering versus not?
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> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 9:29 AM Brian Meade <bmeade90 at vt.edu> wrote:
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> I would not use Expressway clustering and just have 2 different C/E pairs
> with different SRV Weights/Priorities instead.
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> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 3:17 AM Gerence Guan <cisco.guan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Everyone.
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> I was googling the answer for MRA failover and found this maillist.
> Got a similar setup as Jonathan's environment.
> Having a pair of expressway C&E in primary DC, and planning to setup
> another pair of expressway C&E in the DR site. All MRA should go via
> primary DC, only use DR site when primary is down.
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> Can I achieve this with different priorities in SRV? Anyone tested  or
> make it working?
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> Best Regards,
> Guan
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> >>>* On Jan 28, 2020, at 8:49 PM, Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpuck.nether.net%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fcisco-voip&data=01%7C01%7Cmturpin%40covene.com%7C0730371d5e454e63e75e08d822122c88%7C575b0cc755204e999cb37affbf511f45%7C1&sdata=sdGVX1ROeLsbvAuSCrywpKcWb%2B11J1gTeF2dY4oNmnk%3D&reserved=0>> wrote:
> *>>>>>>* We have two pairs of Expressway clusters (C/E) at two different
> *>>>* locations (primary and DR)...
> *>>>>>>* The cluster is up, however, we want to make sure that we are in
> *>>>* Active/Standby.
> *>>>>>>* Currently, we have one of our SRV records for collab-edge set at 5 (the
> *>>>* backup is at 10) with the same weight.
> *>>>>>>* The clustering guide says we should set the priority and weight on both
> *>>>* SRV records the same, which will cause half of the registrations to go to
> *>>>* the DR site. It is far away and has less capability.
> *>>>>>>* How do we:
> *>>>>>>* 1 - Make sure the primary site handles all MRA registrations and the DR
> *>>>* site is only used when the primary is down.
> *>>>* 2 = Make sure failover occurs automatically... currently Jabber users
> *>>>* have to log out and back in to connect to the DR site.
> *>>>
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