PRIME LMS 4.2 + High Availabilty

Hi all,
Does LMS 4.2 support Microsoft cluster solution for High Availabilty ?
I understand from Cisco Documentations that they use Veritas Cluster solution as well as Vmware Vmotion/HA for high available configuration of LMS.
But i would like to know if we can achieve this using Microsoft Cluster and if then, can some please share any documents/details pertaining to same ?
Sankar

Besides the supported Veritas method, the second best solution would be to snapshot your VM regularly and practice restore from that. A Microsoft Cluster solution would be an unsupported kludge.
You could also perform a system (application level) backup on a regular basis and restore from that.

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Cisco Prime LMS High Availability

Hi,
I am trying to setup prime LMS 4.2 with a pair of soft appliance. As I understand that HA is possible with the use of veritas/vmware for windows/solaris; I was wondering what are the possible high availability options available with a pair of prime LMS appliances? Can it form active/secondary with data synchronization/data redundancy of the LMS on top of the traditional backup/restore of the lms?
Any input is appreciated.
Thanks

As iceman said, in VMWare it is not needed to have a pair of host machines to configure HA. Pairs are managed using third party HA services like veritas.
In VMWare's HA concept all Host machines are pooled into one cluster and in case of host failure the entire cluster is moved to another host. vMotion can also help to move the entire vm to another host.
This is when the host fails where vm resides. In case of failure of vm itself, the HA can be set for various actions lilke Automatic restart when hardware or OS failure is detected. OR it can restart another backup host in other cluster when failure is detected.
You need to check availble HA option on VMWare and you can consider HA options via third party applications like veritas as well.
-Thanks
Vinod
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Cisco Prime LMS Device Names

In Prime LMS 4.2, has anyone seen this issue/bug before?
I've added in all devices indicating their Device Names and Hostnames. However in the Monitor section and only High Severity Faults part, the Device Name is actually showing IP addresses.
In the Syslog report that sent via email, Device Name fields are showing IP addresses as well. Other sections or portlets are totally fine.
Thanks.

Hi Bin,
Check the below link:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/ciscoworks_device_fault_manager/3.2/user/guide/useDevMg.html#wp1367517
Workaround to get the HOSTNAME in DFM is :
1> Added the Device Name and IP on the DNS Server or /etc/HOSTS file
2> Modified NMSROOT/objects/smarts/conf/discovery/discovery.conf, and changed the DisplayNameFormat from "AUTOASSIGNED" to "MIBIISYSNAME".
That caused DFM to display the sysName as the display name.
Also set the NameFormat to TM_USEAUTONAME, then restarted daemon Manager (net stop crmdmgtd && net start crmdmgtd )
3> Delete and re-add a device in DFM
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Open name-resolver.conf file and make same changes that we have made in discovery.conf. ie, the following entry should be there in this file also.
#NameFormat = "TM_USESEEDNAME"
NameFormat = "TM_USEAUTONAME"
Thanks-
Afroz
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Issues with Cisco Prime LMS 4.2.3

Hi,
I'm trailing Cisco Prime LMS 4.2.3 Soft appliance on ESXi before I deploy it into a live environment and am having some issues.
I've upgraded to version 4.2.3 and the box was working fine after the upgrade however on power it up today the Apache service will not start.
If I look at the LMS application I see this for the Apache service.
"Apache Administrator has shut down this server 0 "
I have tried to starting it.
CiscoLMS42/admin# application start Apache
% Application failed to start
CiscoLMS42/admin#
If I run an application operation debug at the same time I get the following output.
CiscoLMS42/admin# 6 [5343]: application:operation cars_install.c[1145] [admin]: Application initialization initiated for appname: Apache, operation: 0
7 [5343]: application:operation cars_install.c[1146] [admin]: Operations: O-APP_START, 1-APP_STOP, 2-APP_STATUS
6 [5343]: application:operation cars_install.c[1150] [admin]: Verifying app (Apache) is installed ...
3 [5343]: application:operation cars_install.c[1152] [admin]: App (Apache) is not installed.
3 [5343]: application:operation install_cli.c[281] [admin]: Error while starting application - Application: Apache ErrorCode: -999
I'm at a complete lose as to where to look next, failing anything else I'll have to rebuild it, but it would be nice to know how to get the Apache up and running again.
regards
Rich

Hi Richard,
I see the following:
[ Thu Apr 18 20:53:11 GMT 2013 ] TomcatMonitor After gettingAJPPort : ajpPort = 9009 and host =CiscoLMS42
[ Thu Apr 18 20:53:11 GMT 2013 ] TomcatMonitor theMgr constructor successful.
[ Thu Apr 18 20:53:11 GMT 2013 ] TomcatMonitor Inside whileloop
[ Thu Apr 18 20:53:11 GMT 2013 ] TomcatMonitor Tomcat is not ready, it's coming up Connection refused
It looks like the hostname cannot be resolved. Can you try to add a static entry in /etc/hosts for the IP of the server and CiscoLMS42?
Restart the daemon manager and it should work.
Regards,
Vlad
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Krakow, Poland
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Any way to find unused ports in Prime LMS 4.2.3 ?

Hi all,
We have just installed Prime LMS 4.2.3 (about a week ago), and it is pretty much working as expected, except for one thing - I cannot get any data back from the reclaim ports report.
I have tried both the Ports Up and Ports Down options, and have even taken the time frame down to one day, but always receive a "no records" result. Has anyone got this working?
Pretty much every other report I've tried so far returns results, just not this one.... We really need to use it to determine (over a period of time) what our actual port usage is for our replacement schedule over the next few years.
-Pete

Hi Afroz,
The detailed device report is really useful, as it contains the time of the port change - I ran it for the switch I was interested in, and then exported the data into Excel and sorted on port status and change date to get the info I needed.
I also ran the "Reclaim up ports" again with the interval set for 15 days with zero result, however when I changed this to 5 days I started to get some info - my guess is that the data that is needed for this report is collected once every week or so.
My server has been running for nearly two weeks now, so I will let it do it's thing for about a month, then run the report again to get some better statistics.
Thanks for your suggestions, much appreciated !
-Pete

Problems getting Prime LMS to start up

Just got the Cisco Prime Lan NMS software. Getting this error when I try to turn up the appliance after I deployed it in ESXi -
Power On virtual machine:Failed to power on VM.
See the error stack for details on the cause of this problem.
Time: 7/16/2013 9:32:26 AM
Target: Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution
ESXi: ucs-c1b4
Error Stack
Failed to power on VM.
Could not power on VM : CPU min outside valid range.
Group host/user: Invalid CPU allocation requested for VM vmm0:Cisco_Prime_LAN_Management_Solution. (min: 4520 mhz, max: -1, minLimit: -1, shares: -3)
SharedArea: Unable to find 'testSharedAreaPtr' in SHARED_PER_VM_VMX area.
This is being deployed on a Cisco UCS B200 M3 with 128GB of ram. There is nothing else deployed on this blade. I elected for thin provisioning on disk storage.
Wouldnt expect that I would have to tweak the install any.
Suggestions ?

5.1 is not supported - only 4.1 and 5.0 (reference). That's most likely the root cause.
I didn't have any specific information for Prime LMS OVA but even though some folks have reported success with Prime Infrastructure 1.3 on 5.1, the product managers told me at Cisco Live that 5.1 would not be supported until PI 2.0. If they ever release an LMS 4.3 (TBD), it might have ESX 5.1 support.

Prime LMS 4.2 installation with solaris 10 volume manager

Hello
Is it possible to use Solaris Volume Manager for disk mirroring in prime LMS 4.2 installation over sparc arquitecture?
This is intended for having hard disk redundancy support.
Is there any documented reference?
O.S. Solaris 10 08/11
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Regards

They were not tested together, and I recommend they not be installed on the same zone instance (due to potential conflicts). Now, if you're certain you have a server that can accommodate both suites (in terms of resources), create separate zones for each suite. This will eliminate the conflict possibility while still giving you one overall physical machine to manage.

Prime LMS 4.2.1 Netconfig and Template TFTP/SSH issue

I have cisco Prime 4.2.1 installed and am trying to deploy templates and Adhoc Netconfigs. The jobs are failing with the following message:
Command(s) failed on the device TFTP: Failed on the device. SSH: Failed to establish SSH connection to 10.104.114.231 - Cause: Authentication failed on device 3 times.
If I deploy a Netconfig Task, say just adding a Syslog Server to the same switch it succeeds, no problem.
I am using Cisco ACS 5.2 - TACACS and have configured the tacacspromtps.ini file for the username and password prompt. I can log onto the switch with the Prime Account no problem using Telnet. SSH has not been configured on the switch. I can't find where the protocols for connecting to devices are configured within Prime LMS?

hi gary,
based on my understanding, its because the device is not configured with SSH.
is the device running SSH enabled (K2 or K9) image? if yes, you can enable the SSH.
if no, then perhaps you want to try find it here to change it to telnet
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/ciscoworks_lan_management_solution/4.2/user/guide/configuration/appa.html
regards,

Upgrade Cisco Prime LMS 4.0 to Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.1

My company has asked me to migrate Prime LMS 4.0 to Prime Infrastructure 2.0 for a client and can not find the guide, the questions are? the migration is possible without an intermediate step? and There is a guide to update LMS 4.0 to PI 2.0 ??
Thanks in advance.

Prime LMS 4.2.2 added support for the PI template directly:
Export Data for Prime Infrastructure
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Cisco Prime LMS appliance Compatibilty with Cisco Prime NCS

Hi,
Is it possible if we can install Cisco Prime LMS 4.2 in the appliance which is inbuilt with Cisco Prime NCS .
We have PILMS42-1.5K-U license available with us.
Rgds,
Kamal

One can install either LMS 4.2 or NCS on the a physical (software on PRIME-NCS-APL-K9 hardware) or virtual appliance (software installed on customer-provided VM).
The two products (NCS and LMS) cannot coexist on a given appliance instance. This is due to change in the future as LMS and NCS merge under the Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.0 release but for now they are distinct and separate products with a common approach and similar look and feel but requiring separate servers, whether physical or virtual.
Please refer to the ordering and licensing guide here.

OBIEE 11g and high availabilty with weblogic

Hello all,
Have anyone already tried to configure an high availabilty environment with more weblogic server and more business intelligence environemnt?
I want to say for example weblogic installed as cluster using 3 nodes and then 2 environet (TEST/PRODUCTION) over this 3-nodes cluster?
Thanks
Stefano

Prabal,
Did you get an answer or we have to wait for the official release till July-1-2009.
Thanks,
Rahul

Device discovery in Cisco Prime LMS 4.1

Hi,
im using CISCO PRIME LMS 4.1 for manage my network, i ran a device discovery job using a ping sweep on the ip ranges of my network, ie 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.2.0/24 and so on... the discovery found all my devices, but it discovered duplicate devices with illegal ip Addresses, ie
ip                                    device
192.168.1.255               S1
192.168.2.0                    S1
192.168.2.1                    S1 (the real address)
all in reachable status.
i dont undestad why the program adds that repeated illegal addresses.. someone can help me with that issue??
how can i run the device discovery to avoid this problem?
Many Thanks.

Julio,
Don't let LMS decide on what IP address it will manage the device.
For example, let LMS do a lookup of the sysname in DNS, then it will use the IP address coming back from the DNS as management IP.
This is what I do to avoid this.
But I also feel that LMS should be bright enough to never manage the same device twice. I think Campus DFM or RME will eventually figure out the 2 devices are the same, but they can't "fix" what is wrong in the DCR.
Cheers,
Michel

Wily Introscope on high availabilty

Hi All,
Our solution Manger is on high availabilty. We want to install Wily Introscope manager on our Solution Manager. How can we install it on high availabilty. Please help.
Also Wily Agents(on managed systems) need to be installed on only Stand Alone Java Systems or on ABAP+JAVA systems also.
Appreciate your help.
Thanks and Regards,
Subashree

Hello Subashreekannan ,
To setup the EM in a cluster scenario you may refer to the [Wily Introscope Setup Guide 8.0 |https://websmp204.sap-ag.de/~sapdownload/011000358700001995842008E/SAPISDOC02_0.pdf] in section "Enterprise Manager Cluster Setup".
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LMS 4.0 High Resources : High CPU

Hi Guys
Can some one help me to fix our LMS 4.0 high CPU issues?. It takes lots of resources and also some time stop responding. I am woudering somesettings not done properly or anyway to fix this issues.
Please refer the attached picture for more details.
Regards
SS

From the graphic, I take it you're using a virtual machine. We'd need to know some more details of your installation - VM resources allocated and size of network being managed are two of them.
In general LMS is a very resource-intensive product. Trying to run in an installation that minimally meets the requirements specified will almost always result in marginal performance. One thing I always recommend is that folks allocate plenty of RAM. For instance, it may 'work' with 4 GB but will be much more usable with 8 GB. Also, when certain processes kick off, CPU will spike and sit at 100% for a while while the process completes. LMS is multi-processor-aware and will take advantage of having multiple processor cores to spread its workload across.
Hope this helps.

Exchange 2010 High availabilty

hello ,
i have exchange 2010 installed on my head office
sevrer 1 : mailbox server
server2 : hub+cas
i want to install high availabilty solution in DR without buying hardware loadbalancer .
incase of our head office disaster should i able sending and receving from DR
regards
MCP MCSA MCSE MCT MCTS CCNA

Hi,
For CAS/HUB servers, you can still use Windows NLB to load balance traffic. It is supported but the recommendation is to user HLB. Besides, it is recommended to create a Client Access server array even if you only have a single Client Access server within
your organization.
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Hope this helps.
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