When deploying CUCM on a regular basis, there is often a set of Enterprise Parameters common to most deployments that require configuration. These involve jumping through various… Read more “Updating CUCM’s Enterprise Parameters with AXL”
Category: UC Applications
UTF-8 BOM, CUCM BAT and Other Reasons I Hate Windows
Stuck working in a customer environment without my personal laptop, or the ability to install a lot of software. Hit this bug: https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvd21759 Basically, CUCM doesn’t… Read more “UTF-8 BOM, CUCM BAT and Other Reasons I Hate Windows”
BAT Import Fails – Unmapped Exception bad header in block 1 record 15, header magic is not ‘ustar’ or unix-style zeros
If you hit this issue when uploading a BAT file, it’s probably because your bat files are encoded in ANSI, not UTF-8. Yes, it is a CUCM… Read more “BAT Import Fails – Unmapped Exception bad header in block 1 record 15, header magic is not ‘ustar’ or unix-style zeros”
Failure During Switch-Version: ERROR: Acquiring lock failed
Do you really want to switch between versions ? Enter (yes/no)? yes Switching Version and Restarting the Appliance … Switch version duration can vary depending on the… Read more “Failure During Switch-Version: ERROR: Acquiring lock failed”
VMware Tools 10.0 Update Failures Creates Outage – CSCux90747, CSCva09767, CSCuy84075
A friend hit this delightful defect this week: https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCva09767 https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCux90747/?referring_site=bugquickviewclick https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCuy84075/?referring_site=bugquickviewredir There are several workarounds, but ultimately there’s a COP file for this – ciscocm.VMwareTools2016c.cop.sgn. The… Read more “VMware Tools 10.0 Update Failures Creates Outage – CSCux90747, CSCva09767, CSCuy84075”
CSCux67499 – SQL NullPointer Exception causes CUC Subscriber Sync Failures
The later version (11.0 – 11.2) of PCP have a fairly painful caveat when it comes to Unity Connection. CUC is currently afflicted by a(nother) horrid Informix… Read more “CSCux67499 – SQL NullPointer Exception causes CUC Subscriber Sync Failures”
CSCup36072 – CUCM/CUC Patch Upgrade Fails
Hit another horror defect today… Patch upgrades apparently do not work as of 10.5.x and up! The defect is described below: https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCup36072 The… Read more “CSCup36072 – CUCM/CUC Patch Upgrade Fails”
