Cisco UCS Director Part 1 & 2

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PART 1 UCS Director (Cloupia at the time) about 2 years ago before Cisco acquired them. I was immediately excited about the possibilities this software brings to the table. While I enjoy manually building out new UCS Service Profiles, zoning, provisioning SAN storage and loading ESXi there is something to be said for automating all of those mundane processes. UCS Director is like having an easy button in UCSM that provisions new compute, storage and…

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Boot from SAN 101 with Cisco UCS B/C Servers

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Boot from SAN 101 with Cisco UCS I take this same approach in the data center when I see a repetitive task on the horizon. Today, I want to help you understand how Boot from SAN works in a legacy blade environment and how UCS makes the task 100 times faster (literally). I should let you know right up front that I’m not a storage guru, but I’ve setup servers to Boot from SAN on…

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Troubleshooting SAN Boot and SAN Connectivity Issues

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Troubleshooting SAN Boot and SAN Connectivity Issues   This chapter describes how to troubleshoot SAN boot and SAN connectivity issues, including the Storage Area Network (SAN) configuration in Cisco UCS Manager and the SAN array. This chapter includes the following sections •SAN Connectivity Checklist •SAN Array Configuration Checklist •Recommended Solutions for Issues During SAN Boot SAN Connectivity Checklist A problem with connectivity to the SAN array can cause issues with the SAN boot. If other…

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General Boot from iSCSI SAN Recommendations

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General Boot from iSCSI SAN Recommendations If you plan to set up and use an iSCSI LUN as the boot device for your host, you need to follow certain general guidelines. The following guidelines apply to booting from independent hardware iSCSI and iBFT. ■ Review any vendor recommendations for the hardware you use in your boot configuration. ■ For installation prerequisites and requirements, review vSphere Installation and Setup. ■ Use static IP addresses to reduce…

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Cisco UCCX 9 Information Centre (CUIC)

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Cisco UCCX 9 Information Centre (CUIC) Just found a few good videos explaining how to setup and use Cisco Unified Information Centre (CUIC) on UCCX V9. Cisco are now moving away from the HRC so good to get up to speed by watch through these 🙂     CUIC Intro [youtube=www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aoFxz62yCy8] Customising reports http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dn_R3BO8K3E The Dashboard http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NHgEDE_4U5o       Enjoy

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ICM Router and Logger Installation and Configuration

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Cisco Unified ICM Component Installation ICM Router and Logger Installation and Configuration Configure Domain Manager Now start the Cisco Unfied ICM installation by running the setup.exe. The first step to configure the domain manager before we can start the installation of ICM Router Now click the Domain Manager Domain is already selected in our case, so Add Cisco root Add facility And finally, add the instance. These setups are straightforward. CUICM Router Installation Click the…

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PG and CTIOS Server Installation and Configuration

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CUCM PG Installation for CUCCE               JTAPI Client Installation It is mandatory to install the jtapi client on the CUCM PG (which is PG1 in this setup) machine. So that it can talk to the CUCM via JTAPI interface. Download the client from the CUCM and install it on the PG1 machine.           Once done, there is a new process called jtapigw on the PG1…

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UCCE – Administrative Workstation Installation

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UCCE – Administrative Workstation Installation Follow the steps as mentioned in the previous sections to run the setup and this time install Admin Workstation. After the AW installation is complete. You must initialize the local database. AW Configuration Manager CUCM PG Setting Before installing CUCM PG and VRU PG, create a PG in the config manager.This will generate the peripheral-id that you should use during the PG installation. Add VRU PG in AW Configuration Manager…

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Customer Voice Portal Installation

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Customer Voice Portal Installation Prerequesites The CVP server hostname should not contain any hyphen Arrange for CVP license Regional and language options should be set to English Text services and input languags options should be set to English (United States) – US Only one Ethernet connection should be active on the CVP machine Install Network Monitor Tools, Simple Network Management Protocol, WMI SNMP Probe Provider, and WMI Windows Installer Provider CVP Call Server, Operation Console…

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How to check the current CDR records and CDR ?

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This document is applicable to the appliance model of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (i.e. CUCM version 5.x and later). Recommended reading It is highly recommended to read the “Understanding CDR (Call Detail Records)” document at the following location to get a good background of CDR operations: https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-13842 How to check the current CDR records and CDR configuration Starting with CUCM 7.1.3 release, users get a pop-up message when they login to CAR (from Cisco Unified…

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