Infrastructure Maintenance

Hi,
I have two questions:
1) I seem to remember from my 10gAS Admin class that I shouldn't perform any maintenance (regular analyzes, space maintenance, etc) on the infrastructure database. However, I can't find any documentation that confirms or denys this. I can find all sorts of information regarding middle tier performance monitoring/tuning, but nothing specifically regarding the infrastructure database. Is it going to 'break' things if I do run regular analyzes, install statspack and so on? If someone could give me a doc number or point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.
2) Also, the log files from the various components can become very large and have filled up my $ORACLE_HOME filesystem. Is there something that handles these (automatically removes/shrinks them) that I have missed? Or do I just need to come up with a home-grown script or two that will take care of this for me.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you

The infrastructure consists of several repositories that have been pre-tuned by Oracle.
Specifically, I encourage you NOT to run statistics against the OiD repository unless the repository is at least Oracle database 10.2 or if you have a specific performance problem and Oracle Support tells you to rerun the stats.
AFAIK there is no log file shrinker. Suggest you look through the logs for errors, and shrink them manually. Also look through the configs to understand why the logs are growing. (THe default settings have always seemed too-much-logging for me.)

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Single SharePoint 2013 Farm for two geographical locations

Dear All,
I want your expert advise and suggestion on an "Architecture" for Deploying SharePoint 2013 in multiple geographical locations. I have read every line in article:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg441255%28v=office.15%29.aspx before posting
this question, for the following scenario:
Scenario:
Two locations, say, Loc1 and Loc2.
SharePoint Farm = Collection of SharePoint servers connected to the same Configuration DB.
WFE1 will be in Loc1 and WFE2 will be in Loc2 (and connected to the same config DB i.e. same Farm).
App1 will be in Loc1 and App2 will be in Loc2 (and connected to the same config DB i.e. same Farm).
Users from Loc1 will be directed to WFE1 and Users from Loc2 will be directed to WFE2.
App1 will run services and service applications consumed by web applications specific to Loc1.
App2 will run services and service applications consumed by web applications specific to Loc2.
I can implement all of the above.
Now question is "How to provide local flavor for back end SQL?"
suppose, I configure "Active-Active" SQL clustering SQLNode1 at Loc1 and SQLNode2 at Loc2, how do I specify that web applications meant for Loc1 are fetched from SQLNode1 and web applications meant for Loc2 are fetched from SQLNode2.
Users in Loc1 are not interested in web applications meant for Loc2 and vice-versa. Currently we are having Two (2) different farms at each location, but going forward we want to consolidate so that "Infrastructure maintenance" is minimized and
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Naveed.DG MCITP, MCTS -SharePoint 2010 Administrator "Vote As Helpful" If it helps!!

How far away are these SharePoint servers away from each other? Remember that regardless of where a SharePoint server is, it must be able to write to the active instance of the Configuration database, and must have that 1ms timing.
Active-Active SQL clusters has never been mentioned, as far as I'm aware, in TechNet documentation. I'd consider this scenario unsupported unless you talked to PSS otherwise.
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Looking for Cisco service providers outside of USA

I am looking for Cisco service providers in Guyana.
It can be a third party vendor for Cisco partner for Cisco infrastructure maintenance.
Thanks,
Sam

Hello, xszhuMerak1.
I can help you find local Cisco support on your area. Would you be able to tell me for what Cisco infrastructure this support will be? Let me know if you have additional concerns or e-mail ([email protected]) me directly. Kind regards.

Windows Azure Team Structure

Hi Azure,
I want to know, if we are running our business in Windows Azure Platform -
1. Is it necessary to have infrastructure team (Like SQL DBA, Windows Admin, Storage Team, Monitoring team..etc) in our premises to support the application?
Or
2. Has Application developer to do all the activities like deploying app, storage creation and maintain, AD creation and maintenance, Traffic manager implementation,...etc?
Kindly answer this question for both IAAS / PAAS applications.
Let me know if anything is unclear

Hi Saravanabharathi,
Its a very good question and I see no reason not to have the infrastructure team, If you are planning to use SQL Azure I am sure you will need a DBA to do everything that you do on premises minus upgrades to the software.
regardless of IAAS or PAAS Azure does not eliminate the need of infrastructure team at all, now being said that you can also have very talented engineering staff who can take parts of responsibility from #1 & #2 from your question above.
in short yes you need infrastructure team regardless of IAAS / PAAS, how big is the team you need depends on what your need is and can not be a generic answer. Azure does not eliminate need of any of your staff but it reduces their workload so they can focus
more on core of the work and less on infrastructure maintenance.
hope this helps
Please mark as answered if it helped
Vishal Narayan Saxena http://twitter.com/vishalishere http://www.ogleogle.com/vishal/

Solution manager maintenance optimizer

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Would anyone be able to possibly point me in the right direction on what I might be missing?
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Hi Markus,
The system is SAP EHP1 for SAP Netweaver 7.0. It has the following components installed and specified in logical components:
Adobe Document services
Application server Java
EP Core
Enterprise Portal
Along with the kernel files I also get the following files available for download via maintenance optimizer (6 in total)
FORUMS06_0-10005892.SCA SP06 for FORUMS 7.01
BP_PROJ_PORT_DESIGNCOLL
BPPPMDC17_0-10003174.SCA BP PROJ., PORT. & DCOL. 4.0 SP17
BP ERP05 PROJ SELF-SERV
BPERP5PSS17_0-10003284.SCA BP ERP05 PROJ SELF-SERV 1.0 Support Package 17
BP ERP05 MAINTENANCE TECH
BPERP5MTC07_0-10004455.SCA SP07 for BP ERP05 MAINTENANCE TECH 1.2
BP ERP SITE TECHNICIAN
BPIS7TST07_0-10004458.SCA SP07 for BP ERP SITE TECHNICIAN 1.20
BP ERP ICM ANALYST
BPIS7ICMAL06_0-10006119.SCA SP06 for BP ERP ICM ANALYST 1.41
When I look at installed system components via SMSY it correctly shows everything installed which includes:
ADOBE DOCUMENT SERVICES 7.01 0006 SP006 ADOBE DOCUMENT SERVICES 7.00
BI BASE SERVICES 7.01 0006 SP006 BI BASE SERVICES 7.01
BI INFORM. BROADCASTING 7.01 0006 SP006 BI INFORM. BROADCASTING 7.00
BI META MODEL REPOSITORY 7.01 0006 SP006 BI META MODEL REPOSITORY 7.01
BI REPORTING AND PLANNING 7.01 0006 SP006 BI REPORTING AND PLANNING 7.01
BI UNIVERSAL DATA INTEGRATION 7.01 0006 SP006 BI UNIVERSAL DATA INTEGRATION BI UDI 7.01
BI WEB APPLICATIONS 7.01 0006 SP006 BI WEB APPLICATIONS 7.00
BI WEBDYNPRO ALV 7.01 0006 SP006 BI WEBDYNPRO ALV 7.01
BP ERP FIN MDM 1.40 0006 SP006 BP for Financial MDM 1.40
BP ERP HR EIC 1.40 0006 SP006 BP für HR Employee Interaction Center 1.40
BP ERP ICM ANALYST 1.41 0004 SP004 BP for ICM-Analyst 1.41
BP ERP RECRUITER 1.40 0006 SP006 BP for Recruiter 1.40
BP ERP RECRUITING ADMIN 1.40 0006 SP006 BP for E-Recruiting Administrator 1.40
BP ERP SITE TECHNICIAN 1.20 0006 SP006 BP for Site Technician (Telecommunications) 1.20
BP ERP UT XSS 1.40 0006 SP006 BP ERP UT Definition für Self Service BP 1.40
BP ERP05 BUS UNIT ANALYST 20 1.0 0017 SP017 BP for Business Unit Analyst (mySAP ERP) 1.0
BP ERP05 COMMON PARTS 1.41 0006 SP006 BP ERP05 COMMON PARTS 1.41
BP ERP05 ESS 1.41 0006 SP006 BP for Employee Self-Service 1.41
BP ERP05 HR ADMINISTRATOR 1.41 0006 SP006 BP for HR Administrator (mySAP ERP) 1.41
BP ERP05 MAINTENANCE TECH 1.2 0006 SP006 BP for Maintenance Technician 1.2
BP ERP05 MSS 1.41 0006 SP006 BP for Manager Self-Service 1.41
BP ERP05 PROJ SELF-SERV 1.0 0016 SP016 BP for Project Self-Service (mySAP ERP) 1.0
BP ERP05 SELF-SERV ADMIN 1.0 0017 SP017 BP for Self-Service Administrator (my SAP ERP) 1.0
BP ERP05 TALENT DEV 1.01 0010 SP010 BP for Talent Development Specialist 1.01
BP_PROJ_PORT_DESIGNCOLL 4.0 0015 SP015 BP for Project Portfolio Management and Design Collaboration 4.0
CAF EU 7.01 0006 SP006 SAP Net Weaver End User 7.01
DI BUILD TOOL 7.01 0000 SAP BUILD TOOL 7.01
DI CHANGE MANAGEMENT SERVER 7.01 0006 SP006 CHANGE MANAGEMENT SERVER and SXMAN 7.00 701
DI COMPONENT BUILD SERVER 7.01 0006 SP006 COMPONENT BUILD SERVER 7.01
DI DESIGN TIME REPOSITORY 7.01 0006 SP006 DESIGN TIME REPOSITORY 7.01
FORUMS 7.01 0005 SP005 FORUMS 7.01
J2EE ENGINE BASE TABLES 7.01 0006 SP006 BASETABLES
J2EE ENGINE CORE TOOLS 7.01 0006 SP006 CORE TOOLS J2EE ENGINE
JAVA LOG VIEWER 7.01 0006 SP006 SAP JAVA LOG VIEWER 7.01
JAVA SP MANAGER 7.01 0006 SP006 JAVA SP MANAGER 7.00
KMC BASE COMPONENTS 7.01 0006 SP006 KMC BASE COMPONENTS 7.01
KMC COLLABORATION 7.01 0006 SP006 KMC COLLABORATION 7.01
KMC CONTENT MANAGEMENT 7.01 0006 SP006 KMC CONTENT MANAGEMENT 7.01
KMC UI LAYER 7.01 0006 SP006 KMC UI LAYER 7.01
KMC WEB PAGE COMPOSER 7.01 0006 SP006 KMC WEB PAGE COMPOSER 7.01
LIFECYCLE MGMT PORTAL 7.01 0006 SP006 LIFECYCLE MGMT PORTAL 7.01
LIFECYCLE MGMT TOOLS 7.01 0006 SP006 LIFECYCLE MGMT TOOLS 7.01
MI ADMINISTRATION 7.01 0006 SP006 MI ADMINISTRATION 7.01
MI DRIVERS 7.01 0006 SP006 MI DRIVERS 7.00
MI WD LAPTOP 7.01 0006 SP006 Net Weaver Mobile Infrastructure Web Dynpro LAPTOP 7.00
PDK PORTAL SERVICES 7.01 0006 SP006 PDK PORTAL SERVICES 7.00
PORTAL CORE SERVICES 7.01 0006 SP006 EPBC 7.01
PORTAL FRAMEWORK 7.01 0006 SP006 EPBC2 7.01
PORTAL PLATFORM 7.01 0006 SP006 EP - Portal Server PORTAL 7.01
PORTAL WEB DYNPRO 7.01 0006 SP006 PORTAL WEB DYNPRO 7.01
RTC 7.01 0006 SP006 RTC 7.00
RTC-STREAM 7.01 0006 SP006 RTC-STREAM 7.00
SAP CAF 7.01 0006 SP006 SAP CAF 7.01
SAP CAF-KM 7.01 0006 SP006 SAP CAF-KM 7.01
SAP CAF-UM 7.01 0006 SP006 SAP CAF-UM 7.01
SAP CPS BASIC (SCHEDULER) 7.01 0004 SP004 Job scheduling capabilities of SAP NetWeaver 7.01
SAP ESS 603 0006 SP006 SAP ESS 603
SAP INTERNET KNOWLEDGE SERVLET 7.01 0006 SP006 SAP Internet Knowledge Servlet 7.00 (SAP J2EE IKS)
SAP J2EE ENGINE 7.01 0006 SP006 SAP J2EE Engine 7.01
SAP J2EE ENGINE CORE 7.01 0006 SP006 SAP J2EE ENGINE CORE 7.01
SAP JAVA TECHNOLOGY S OFFLINE 7.01 0006 SP006 SAP JAVA TECHNOLOGY S OFFLINE SAP TECH S OFFLINE 7.01
SAP JAVA TECHNOLOGY SERVICES 7.01 0006 SP006 SAP JAVA TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (Schicht 3 Dummy) SAP JAVA TECH SERVICES
SAP MI CLIENT 7.01 0006 SP006 SAP Mobile Infrastructure Client 7.0
SAP MSS 600 0017 SP017 SAP MSS 600 (Manager Self Services)
SAP PCUI_GP 603 0006 SP006 SAP PCUI_GP 603
SAP SOFTW. DELIV. MANAGER 7.01 0000 SAP JAVA SL 7.01
SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT 7.01 0006 SP006 SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE MANAGER 7.01
UME ADMINISTRATION 7.01 0006 SP006 UME ADMINISTRATION 7.01
UWL COLL PROCESS ENGINE 7.01 0006 SP006 UWL COLL PROCESS ENGINE 7.01
VISUAL COMPOSER BASE 7.01 0006 SP006 VISUAL COMPOSER BASE 7.00
VISUAL COMPOSER BI KITS 7.01 0006 SP006 VISUAL COMPOSER BI KITS 7.00
VISUAL COMPOSER FLEX 7.01 0006 SP006 VISUAL COMPOSER FLEX 7.00
VISUAL COMPOSER FRAMEWORK 7.01 0006 SP006 VISUAL COMPOSER FRAMEWORK 7.00
VISUAL COMPOSER GP KITS 7.01 0006 SP006 VISUAL COMPOSER GP KITS 7.00
VISUAL COMPOSER XX KITS 7.01 0006 SP006 VISUAL COMPOSER XX KITS 7.00
WEB DYNPRO EXTENSIONS 7.01 0006 SP006 WEB DYNPRO EXTENSIONS 7.01
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Problem in main vda host: vdadb:sql in maintenance

Hi, I dont find a way to solve this, the installation went without problems or error messages, but still have this problem, is any of this normal?
root [ ~ ]# cacaoadm status
default instance is DISABLED at system startup.
default instance is not running.
root [ ~ ]# svcs -a|grep vda
legacy_run Apr_21 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S99vda-webadmin-init
online 8:34:25 svc:/application/database/vdadb:core
maintenance 8:34:42 svc:/application/database/vdadb:sql
root [ ~ ]# svcadm clear svc:/application/database/vdadb:sql
root [ ~ ]# svcs -a|grep vda
legacy_run Apr_21 lrc:/etc/rc3_d/S99vda-webadmin-init
online 8:34:25 svc:/application/database/vdadb:core
offline* 12:34:59 svc:/application/database/vdadb:sql
root [ ~ ]# svcs -l svc:/application/database/vdadb:sql
fmri svc:/application/database/vdadb:sql
name SUNWvda MySQL Cluster and Application
enabled true
state maintenance
next_state none
state_time Wed May 06 12:35:10 2009
logfile /var/svc/log/application-database-vdadb:sql.log
restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
contract_id
dependency require_all/none svc:/milestone/network:default (online)
dependency require_all/none svc:/system/filesystem/local:default (online)
dependency require_all/refresh svc:/milestone/name-services (online)
the process wont go up because of this:
root [ ~ ]# tail -20 /var/svc/log/application-database-vdadb:sql.log
MGMT_NODE=[0]; NDBD_NODE=[0]; SQL_NODE=[0]; MULTI_HOST_MODE=[0];
NDBD_CONNECTSTRING=[localhost]; NDBD_INITIAL_ARG=[]; NDBD_NODE_ID=[0];
Starting the Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Database service:
- Starting Management Node... Unable to setup port: *:1186!
Please check if the port is already used,
(perhaps a ndb_mgmd is already running),
and if you are executing on the correct computer
OK
- Starting Data Node... 2009-05-06 12:35:10 [ndbd] INFO -- Unable to alloc node id
2009-05-06 12:35:10 [ndbd] INFO -- Error : Could not alloc node id at localhost port 1186: No free node id found for ndbd(NDB).
error=2350
2009-05-06 12:35:10 [ndbd] INFO -- Error handler restarting system
2009-05-06 12:35:10 [ndbd] INFO -- Error handler shutdown completed - exiting
sphase=0
exit=-1
Arguments: [localhost ]...
Error (255)
[ May 6 12:35:10 Method "start" exited with status 95 ]
even after stopping the vda services:
root [ ~ ]# cacaoadm stop --force
the process is still there:
root [ ~ ]# ps -ef|grep vda
root 27168 1 0 08:34:26 ? 0:14 /opt/SUNWvda/mysql/bin/ndb_mgmd -f /etc/opt/SUNWvda/config.ini
which is the one who has the port in use:
root [ ~ ]# pfiles 27168|grep 1186
sockname: AF_INET 0.0.0.0 port: 1186
peername: AF_INET 127.0.0.1 port: 1186
sockname: AF_INET 127.0.0.1 port: 1186
sockname: AF_INET 129.153.207.114 port: 1186
sockname: AF_INET 129.153.207.114 port: 1186
which is respawned by someone:
root [ ~ ]# kill 27168
root [ ~ ]# ps -ef|grep vda
root 11556 1 0 12:48:07 ? 0:00 /opt/SUNWvda/mysql/bin/ndb_mgmd -f /etc/opt/SUNWvda/config.ini
is all these the "normal" behaviour in the main vda host?
the secondaries show:
root [ ~ ]# cacaoadm status
default instance is ENABLED at system startup.
Smf monitoring process:
19625
19627
Uptime: 0 day(s), 4:5
and because of this, I think, I cannot connect to the webpage in the
main vda host, but can connect to the secondaries.
is there something I am missing, doing wrong or should be doing in other way?
thanks in avance
-Oswaldo

Neidisch wrote:
Hola Oswaldo,
:) hola!!
>
That's right. The primary host won't host any other service, unless you execute 'vda-config' a second, which is actually not recommended.
So, no web UI and no 'vdadb:sql' will be activated; if those services are activated by hand, it may cause unexpected results.
ok, then svcadm clear/enable vdadb:sql is a no-no ... got it.
then the cacaoadm status output is correct/fine:
default instance is DISABLED at system startup.
default instance is not running.
Haven't read thoroughly your cloning-related-thread, but it just seems that "something" is devouring memory in your VirtualBox host.
well, I suspended the use of firefox and signed out as root from the console
(some time ago now ... ) so the current top output sorted by res size is:
last pid: 2343; load avg: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; up 6+21:58:25 09:07:51
64 processes: 62 sleeping, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 99.9% idle, 0.0% user, 0.1% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 3968M phys mem, 845M free mem, 17G total swap, 17G free swap
PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
725 noaccess 19 59 0 181M 113M sleep 5:08 0.01% java
447 vboxuser 6 59 0 92M 80M sleep 3:04 0.00% vboxwebsrv
757 root 11 59 0 39M 30M sleep 0:10 0.00% VirtualBox
306 daemon 5 59 0 23M 18M sleep 0:11 0.00% nfsmapid
553 vboxuser 9 59 0 17M 13M sleep 3:55 0.00% VBoxSVC
7 root 13 59 0 13M 11M sleep 0:14 0.00% svc.startd
764 root 9 59 0 14M 10M sleep 1:04 0.00% VBoxSVC
525 root 18 59 0 13M 9084K sleep 0:04 0.00% fmd
633 root 1 59 0 24M 8708K sleep 3:12 0.00% Xorg
9 root 15 59 0 8320K 7184K sleep 0:11 0.00% svc.configd
683 root 1 59 0 11M 7136K sleep 1:16 0.00% dtgreet
728 webservd 1 59 0 9604K 5020K sleep 0:26 0.00% httpd
727 webservd 1 59 0 9500K 4896K sleep 0:26 0.00% httpd
660 webservd 1 59 0 9364K 4776K sleep 0:27 0.00% httpd
662 webservd 1 59 0 9360K 4768K sleep 0:27 0.00% httpd
and sorted by mem size is:
last pid: 2343; load avg: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; up 6+21:59:46 09:09:12
64 processes: 62 sleeping, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 99.8% idle, 0.0% user, 0.1% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 3968M phys mem, 845M free mem, 17G total swap, 17G free swap
PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
725 noaccess 19 59 0 181M 113M sleep 5:08 0.01% java
447 vboxuser 6 59 0 92M 80M sleep 3:04 0.00% vboxwebsrv
757 root 11 59 0 39M 30M sleep 0:10 0.00% VirtualBox
633 root 1 59 0 24M 8708K sleep 3:12 0.01% Xorg
306 daemon 5 59 0 23M 18M sleep 0:11 0.00% nfsmapid
553 vboxuser 9 59 0 17M 13M sleep 3:55 0.00% VBoxSVC
764 root 9 59 0 14M 10M sleep 1:04 0.00% VBoxSVC
525 root 18 59 0 13M 9084K sleep 0:04 0.00% fmd
7 root 13 59 0 13M 11M sleep 0:14 0.00% svc.startd
683 root 1 59 0 11M 7136K sleep 1:16 0.00% dtgreet
2333 root 1 59 0 9772K 2284K sleep 0:00 0.01% sshd
728 webservd 1 59 0 9604K 5020K sleep 0:26 0.00% httpd
727 webservd 1 59 0 9500K 4896K sleep 0:26 0.00% httpd
660 webservd 1 59 0 9364K 4776K sleep 0:27 0.00% httpd
662 webservd 1 59 0 9360K 4768K sleep 0:27 0.00% httpd
being this one the mem-eater:
noaccess 725 1 0 Apr 30 ? 5:09 /usr/java/bin/java -server -Xmx128m -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=4
I assume "it" is part of the vdi deployment...
now, as stated in the cloning problem post, I am still getting the cryptic:
Error cloning: No suitable hosts to start a desktop for Desktop Provider venezuela.
you might want (I invite you) to take a look at the post,
the only difference between then and now is that I finally brought up the openldap
server inside a zone on one of the servers, and added it as the user directory as I
couldnt get to make it work with the win2003 active directory (can be treated in a
separate post if needed)...
thanks again

CRES maintenance coming October 10th, 2009 - New times!

Update - 2009-09-29
Based on your feedback, we are delaying the maintenance start time to 15:00 PST (22:00 UTC). The duration remains 6 hours and the day is still October 10th, 2009.
The Cisco Registered Envelope Service (CRES) will be temporarily unavailable while we upgrade our infrastructure. We thank you for your patience. This release contains many new features and functionality as well as improvements to the stability and performance of our hosted infrastructure. To learn more view the complete release announcement https://www.ironportnation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1482
New IP ranges:
As part of this upgrade, we will be moving our outbound email servers to a new set of IP addresses. Customers who have TLS require set up by IP range or firewall rules specific to res.cisco.com will need to modify their infrastructure to accommodate the new IP ranges.
208.90.57/26
204.15.81/26
216.206.186.129/25 *
* This is the original CRES ip range. During this migration we recommend you support all three sets of IP ranges
These ranges can also be queried using our published SPF record.
$ dig +short res.cisco.com txt
"v=spf1 ip4:204.15.81.0/26 ip4:216.206.186.129/25 ip4:208.90.57.0/26
mx:res.cisco.com ~all"
As a best practice we recommend using the hostname rather than IPrange to
configure TLS. For more information see Knowledge Base article 1442 http://preview.tinyurl.com/l2nbv7.
Maintenance Duration:
 Saturday, October 10th from 15:00 - 21:00 PST
(Sat 22:00:00 - Sun 04:00:00 UTC)
Impact:
During the maintenance window it will not be possible to open PXE encrypted messages. CRES admins will not be able to log into the administration interface and senders of PXE encrypted messages may receive bounce messages. All services will be restored once the upgrade is concluded. Any bounced messages can be resent at that time.
Note: This is in addition to our regularly scheduled maintenance window from 10 AM to 11 AM Pacific Time on the last Saturday of every month. Complete Terms of Service are available on the CRES web site https://res.cisco.com.

Good point.
The old email servers will stop sending mail after the cutover on October 10th.
The new email servers are available now and the team is running TLS connection tests from them. As we get closer to the rollout, we will both send reminders out to everyone and reach out directly to the customers to whom our TLS connection tests fail.

Prime Infrastructure 2.2- problems: Wired Detailed Device Inventory report not running / Cisco 5500 WLCs no listed in subgroup

New installation of Prime Infrastructure 2.2.0 (PI-VA-2.2.0.0.158.ova)
installed fixes/software/device packs:
PI 2.2.1 Poodle Fix (installed)
PI 2.2.1 Maintenance Release (installed,ncs stopped,rebooted)
Prime Infrastrucutre 2.2 Device Pack 3 (installed,ncs stopped,rebooted)
Licences installed (ncs stopped,rebooted)
Added all devices via Bulk Import (Inventory>Device Management>Network Devices)
Problem 1:
The Cisco 5500 WLCs are not listed in Inventory>Device Management>Network Devices (see screen shot) but listed under "All Devices"!
The Cisco 4400 WLCs and the 8500 WLCs are listed within their subgroup.
Devices are in "Managed State"
Problem 2: fixed! (Browser issue)
Problem 3:
Unable to run "Wired Detailed Device Inventory" report because I get the error message: Failed to run report: Unable to retrieve data for: Chassis Information (if Chassis Information is selected, if System Information is selected I get the error message with ...retrieve data for:System Information)
All devices do have an "Admin Status = Managed" and the Last Inventory Collections Status = Completed.
Has anyone the same issues or a tip for me?
Another topic, the "User Defined Fileds" are not exported when with running a "Device Export" (Inventory > Device Management > Network Devices). ;-(
BR
Bastian

Hallo Bastian,
I think you still have browser issue, Using IE is still the best with Prime.
I have exactly same prime 2.2 and installed fixes/software/device packs.
I have no problem I can see all views. I use now IE 11, with Chrome 42.0.2311.90 and firefox 37.01 I have problems too with lots of views. You have not tell what browser + version you have.
Since you have same prime 2.2 as me. I have other problems, can you check yours?
Can you see a functional CLI template page at Configuration > Templates > Features & Technologies:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12481691/can-cisco-prime-22-still-do-simple-ad-hoc-deployment-job-cli-over-all-switches
Do you have SNMP Connectivity Failed while Verify Credentials has no errors all green and checked.
https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/12494786/snmp-request-exceeds-internal-data-buffer-512-bytes-prime-22-asa-5545

Ask the Expert: Cisco Prime Infrastructure - Implementation and Deployment

Welcome to the Cisco Support Community Ask the Expert conversation.
This Ask The expert Session will cover questions spanning Cisco Prime Infrastructure on Implementation and Deployment on Wired and Wireless. This will be more specific to Customer’s and Partners questions product covering PI on configuration, Features and Menu, Network Monitoring, Maps, Implementation, High Availability and Maintenance and t/s parts.
Monday, February 2nd, 2015 to Friday, February 13th, 2015
Dhiresh Yadav is a customer support engineer in High-Touch Technical Services (HTTS) handling supporting Wireless and Network Management based Cisco products and is based in Bangalore. His areas of expertise include Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Wireless products. He has over 7 years of industry experience working with large enterprise and service provider networks. He also holds CCNP (RS) and CCIE (DC) certifications.
Afroz Ahmad is a customer support engineer in High-Touch Technical Services (HTTS) handling supporting Wireless and Network Management based Cisco products and is based in Bangalore. His areas of expertise include Cisco NMS products like Prime Infrastructure, LMS, IP SLA and SNMP etc. He has over 7 years of industry experience working with large enterprise and service provider networks. He also holds CCNP (RS),CCIE (DC), and SCJP (Sun Certified Java Professional )
Vinod Kumar Arya is a customer support engineer in High-Touch Technical Services (HTTS) handling supporting Wireless and Network Management based Cisco products and is based in Bangalore. His areas of expertise include Cisco NMS products like Prime Infrastructure, LMS, IP SLA and SNMP etc. He has over 8 years of industry experience working with large enterprise and service provider networks. He also holds VCP 5 and RHCE certifications.
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Hello Wilson,
Thanks for joining us.
1841 should just work fine for net flow . Hope you have a valid "PI Assurance license" installed on the server.
"PI Assurance license" is required for "net-flow" feature
Devices supporting Netflow in PI ::
1400, 1600, 1700 & 1800
2500, 2600 & 2800
3600, 3700, 3750 & 3800
4500 & 4700
AS5300 & 5800
7200, 7300, 7400 & 7500
Catalyst 4500 ASCI
Catalyst 5000, 6500, & 7600 ASCI
ESR 10000 ASCI
GSR 12000 ASCI
Cisco IOS Software Release Version
Supported Cisco Hardware Platforms
11.1CA, 11.1CC
Cisco 7200 and 7500 series, RSP 7200 series
12.0
Cisco 1720, 2600, 3600, 4500, 4700, AS5800
RSP 7000 and 7200 series
uBR 7200 and 7500 series
RSM series
12.0T, 12.0S
Cisco 1720, 2600, 3600, 4500, 4700, AS5800
RSP 7000 and 7200 series
uBR 7200 and 7500 series
RSM series, MGX8800RPM series, and BPx8600 series
12.0(3)T, 12.0(3)S
Cisco 1720, 2600, 3600, 4500, 4700, AS5300, AS5800
RSP 7000 and 7200 series
uBR 7200 and 7500 series
RSM series, MGX8800RPM series, and BPx8650 series
12.0(4)T
Cisco 1400, 1600, 1720, 2500, 2600, 3600, 4500,
4700, AS5300, AS5800
RSP 7000 and 7200 series
uBR 7200 and 7500 series
RSM series, MGX8800RPM series, and BPx8650 series
12.0(4)XE
Cisco 7100 series
12.0(6)S
Cisco 12000 series
NetFlow is also supported by these devices Cisco 800, 1700, 1800, 2800, 3800, 6500, 7300, 7600, 10000, CRS-1 and these Catalyst series switches: 45xx, 55xx, 6xxx.
NetFlow export is also supported on other Cisco switches when using a NetFlow Feature Card (NFFC) or NFFC II and the Route Switch Module (RSM), or Route Switch Feature Card (RSFC). However, check whether version 5 is supported, as most switches export version 7 by default.
You can check the below steps to diagnose the issue::
To verify that NetFlow is exported from a device to PI, follow the steps below:
1)   Browse to Administration > Data Sources page. Check the value in column ‘Last Active Time’ for the ‘Device Data Sources’ table. If the table is empty or the value does not represent recent time, then
it is possible that the device is not exporting NetFlow or PI Assurance license is not applied / expired.
2)   Login to PI console ( via SSH) as root user and run the command:
                netstat –an | grep 9991 – Output of this should be like : udp        0      0 :::9991         :::*
                Check the firewall settings on PI server using the command: firewall -L
1)   Check the configuration on an IOS / IOS –XE device. Run the commands
a)   sh running-config | inc destination
1)   This should list the IP address of the PI SERVER ( along with other outputs if any)
b)   sh running-config | inc 9991
1)   This should list at least one entry.
c)   If the above are fine, then verify that the flow monitor, flow exporter and the flow records are correctly configured on the device.
Refer to the URLs below to configure NetFlow export.
http://preview.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/prime/infrastructure/2.0/user/guide/setup_monitor.html#wp1056427
Thanks-
Afroz
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HELP: WLC AP-SSO not working (standby unity in maintenance mode)

I have two WLC version 7.3.101.0 with the standby unit having HA-SKU. I have tested the AP-SSO functionality without any problem in lab with direct connection on RP port between two WLC. Once I brought them into data centre in separate location (latency is less than 10ms between the two DC), the standby unity always went into maintenance mode. The booting process on standby unit went to maintenance mode as shown below:
Management Gateway and Peer Redundancy Management interface are not reachable.
Entering maintenance mode...
I have checked on the core switches at 2 data centre that the two WLC RP ports are connected to same VLAN and it is spanned across MAN link (10GB and less than 10ms delay). The spanning tree on those ports are forwarding as well.
I have rebooted the second unit but no luck.
The interface between two DC is using MTU 9216 which I do not think would cause this issue.
Anyone has come across same or similar issue with me or know the solution? If you do, plz enlighten me.
Thanks

Thanks Leo and Scott for your feedback. I notice there are two newer software for WLC version 7.3.102.0 and 7.4.100.0.
Both of them seem to have many open caveats. In my wireless environment, I also use ISE, MSE and Prime Infrastructure and unfortunately WLC 7.4 does not support prime solution and MSE yet according to below compatibility matrix.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/5500/tech_notes/Wireless_Software_Compatibility_Matrix.html
I think I only have choice to do minor upgrade to 7.3.102.0 at this moment (please correct me if I am wrong). This software was published on 30th Jan 2013 so I wonder if someone else has tried this and managed to get WLC AP-SSO setup working flawlessly where 2nd WLC unit is at different location?
Appreciate for more info and advise.

How to measure Availability Complexity Operation & Maintenance Costs etc

Dear All
We have multiple configurations for attaining High Availability, Maximum Availability with and / or across data centers for databases. Some employ Active - Active Clustering Solution while Some use Active - Passive Solution. Some employ only OS clusters like Sun Clusters,Veritas clusters. Often as I noticed, a combination of OS cluster say Veritas Cluster as well as Oracle Cluster (Clusterware + RAC) in their database solutions.
In such situations how does one come up with Quantitative analysis of each methodology? What are the inputs one would need and how does these calculations come up? While searching on internet, I have seen at times ACTIVE - ACTIVE Database clusters using VCFS and Oracle Clusters RAC say the availability is some 99.xx% while other approaches are accordingly rated. How does one come up to such quantitative decisions? Could you please advice.
I was asked to come up with such numbers in terms of below mentioned items for a few approaches I suggested.
Availability of the Database
Complexity of Architecture and understanding.
Set up costs.
Operational Costs.
Cost of Maintenance
For your understanding I've suggested below approaches to attain High availability with Production Data Centre.
Approach - I : I will have Active - Passive Database running on node a and b respectively. DB1 will be active on node a and DB2 will be active on node b. In the event of failure they will fail over to the alternative.
Approach - I : I will have Active - Passive Database running on node a and b respectively. DB1 and DB2 will be active on node a and node b will always running waiting for a failover event. In the event of failure they will fail over to node b.
Approach - III : I will have DB1 and DB2 active on Node a. We could configure Dataguard (Logical or a physical standby) on node b in the production data centre.
Approach IV : I will have a two node cluster running RAC and will have ACTIVE- ACTIVE database DB1 and DB2 running on them.
Personally I like the Approach IV. However, for business reasons, we need to make a decision based on quantitative analysis done.
If one of you have already done one such excercise, could you please share yoru experiences here?
Many Many thanks for all your guidence in this direction.
Regards!
Sarat

Sarat Chandra C wrote:
Dear All
Approach - I : I will have Active - Passive Database running on node a and b respectively. DB1 will be active on node a and DB2 will be active on node b. In the event of failure they will fail over to the alternative.
Non Availability of the Database: Time taken to detect failure+ OS failover + starting of the database
Complexity of Architecture and understanding: From oracle side there is no complexity as hardware cluster takes care about this
Set up costs: If management has already decided to have one server for each database, then no extra cost except the cost of license of the hardware cluster. Else cost of extra server.
Operational Costs: (None) (Excluding the dba/sa task to verify the failover)
Cost of Maintenance: (None) (Excluding the dba/sa task to verify the failover)
Approach - I : I will have Active - Passive Database running on node a and b respectively. DB1 and DB2 will be active on node a and node b will always running waiting for a failover event. In the event of failure they will fail over to node b.
Non Availability of the Database: Time taken to detect failure+failover+starting of the database*2 (Since both the database needed to be failover)
Complexity of Architecture and understanding: From oracle side there is no complexity as hardware cluster takes care about this
Set up costs: If management has already decided to have one server for each database, then no extra cost except the cost of license of the hardware cluster. But you would be underutilizing your one server and over utilizing your another server
Operational Costs: (None) (Excluding the dba/sa task to verify the failover)
Cost of Maintenance: (None) (Excluding the dba/sa task to verify the failover)
Approach - III : I will have DB1 and DB2 active on Node a. We could configure Dataguard (Logical or a physical standby) on node b in the production data centre.
Non Availability of the Database: Since there would be a manual intervantion here. Down time would be (Time taken to detect failure+ time taken to activate standby database)*2 (Since both the database needed to be failover)
Complexity of Architecture and understanding: Complex since data gaurd need to be setup.
Set up costs: License for extra two database and for data gaurd.
Operational Costs: (None)
Cost of Maintenance: Verification that log files are continuously shipped and that there is no lag.
Also note if the database is not in maximum protection mode, chances are that you would loose data. If they are in maximum protection mode, then there would be a performance impact to your production server.
Approach IV : I will have a two node cluster running RAC and will have ACTIVE- ACTIVE database DB1 and DB2 running on them.
Non Availability of the Database: None till the time both cluster goes down.
Complexity of Architecture and understanding: Complex since you would be using RAC
Set up costs: Am not sure about licenscing part of RAC
Operational Costs: None
Cost of Maintenance: Nearly double then using single node Database.
Personally I like the Approach IV. However, for business reasons, we need to make a decision based on quantitative analysis done.
If one of you have already done one such excercise, could you please share yoru experiences here?
Many Many thanks for all your guidence in this direction.
Regards!
SaratI have not come up with the exact number since it would depends on the infrastructure and hardware.
Moreover Non availibility of database was only due to the fact hardware is not available it does not include the non availibility of database due to the issue with database. If there is issue with database, then even the passive node would not be able to handle it except only inthe case of data guard.
Regards
Anurag

Maintenance Optimizer = Unnecessary Overhead

Who in the world came up with an idea to make it mandatory to use Maintenance Optimizer for SAP patches? There's no real value in this tool except additional bureaucracy. We still have to download support packages & import them manually. So where's the benefit?
First, we are now forced to spend a week to patch Solution Manager to the required level (although we could safely ignore it until now - we don't use Solution Manager). And then the support package with the Maintenance Optimizer included appears to be buggy and counterintuitive to configure (including the latest one - Level 11)
Maintenance Optimizer is making our life more difficult, not easier. It was clear and simple to download the support packages one-by-one - only what we need. So why to take out a working, trusted and efficient mechanism?
Just expressing my serious disappointment. Make the Maintenance Optimizer optional, not mandatory - hope someone from SAP will read it.

Hi Marek (and all others),
I've said and communicated that in the past also - here, in the OSS, to the sales reps (they even didn't know it's mandatory as of 2nd of April), to the "complaint management", on official SAP events, in the DSAG et al - no luck whatsoever, everybody is totally convinced, that THIS tool, which is even more complex than everything we have in our company, is THE solution for EVERY problem. The main problem is in my eyes, that the SolMan is the biggest problem itself. The IDEA is not generally bad, but the implementation is unfinished, overly complex, non-intuitive and lacks a consistent setup and "view". In my eyes it's just a conglomerate of transactions put together in "some form" without a real thread.
Criticism and customer input IS being heard here and things became "easier" already but the fact, that customers are URGED to implement SolMan, no matter if they have already another ticket system, monitoring infrastructure, implementation tools, project management etc. is the wrong way, it's pure pretentiousness. And even if you don't use anything of those nice features, it's WAY too bloated to just download SPs.
And you still don't need SolMan to download - you can still select them one-by-one without everything, you just have to download from the download basket instead of direct clicking on a link in the browser, that's the only change so far and I'm VERY happy with that.
Don't expect some official person from SAP stating on this here, that decision was made at management level @ SAP and I'm sure that SAP internally there are many people thinking the same way but via customers the strategy must be consistently communicated and thus nobody from SAP here will say anything against it, even if they think likewise.
I still have hopes, that, after Agassi is gone and Plattner is back (well, at least a bit), winds will change again back to business, back to quality and back to less intrusive and less presumptuous customer interaction.
Markus

Maintenance transaction error

Hello experts!
I'm trying to create a maintenance transaction in my solution manager for my enterprise portal system (based on netweaver 7.3)
*The system was registered automatically in SLD at installation
*In SMSY I have this structure
Product Systems
--->SAP Netweaver AS JAVA
>EPP
>Application Server JAVA
In EPP component I have in Product Instante Selection
Application Server Java marked as relevant and technical system too
The techincal system is called EPP and the system type is JAVA
But when I choose calculate files automatically in MOPZ I get this message
"No Component Version data for system EPP ! "
Where should I configure that version data?
Thank you

Hi,
When you go to SMSY, system EPP, and click on one of the Java product
instances in the navigation pane at the left, you see the data for the
Java technical system EPP.
Please check if there is any tab software component information for this
Java technical system , and if there is such a tab, if the software
components have any values.
I strongly recommend this documentation below.
http://service.sap.com/solutionmanager => Media Library => How-To
Documents => #SAP Solution Manager in a High Security Infrastructure
thanks
Regards,
Vikram

Consultations on Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2

I recently installed Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2 and I have 2 questions regarding configuration:
1. What configurations should run for vulnerability when some event occurs on a switch an alarm is lifted in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2?
2. Is there any way to put a device into maintenance mode in the web interface of Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2, so that can not be spoiled reports regarding equipment availability during the execution of maintenance?

1. If you configure PI as an SNMP and syslog server for your devices and have enabled logging traps etc., PI's alarm browser will show the alarms. If you want them to be sent to you via email, you can do that under the Admin menu for setting up your Mail server and clicking the link to "Configure email notification for individual alarm categories." (see below - open in new tab to zoom). It's not completely customizable but what you see there is the current product capabilities in that regard.
2. No, this is not currently an available feature in PI 2.2.

Critical Alarms from LAPs in Maintenance State

Should a critical alarm be triggered when an LAP disassociates from a WLC if it is placed in Maintenance State before it's taken offline?
Should I delete, clear or acknowledge the critical alarm if a LAP was taken offline before it was placed in Maintenance state?
Should I still put LAPs in maintenance state if they were taken offline before I had a chance to?
Using Cisco Prime Infrastructure version 1.2

I just upgraded CPI to version 2.2 and the controllers to 7.6.130 and I'm still getting the same result.
I'm getting critical alarms for APs in Maintenance State.

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