WiSM 7.0.98 experiences?

Hello, I am checking what are people's experiences about wism 7.0.98? We want to upgrade to it to support clean air APs but two severity 2 bugs are holding me back:
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WiSM is unreachable outside of Catalyst 6500 Series Switch.
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The WLC stops responding to the network.
Thanks for all responses!
Zhenning

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Version 7 is good. Some issues as you mentioned but it might be unlikely that these two bugs are relevant for you since there are not many that have seen these issues. But there is no warranty that you don’t hit a bug or find a new.
How is your topology? Do you have the controller and the access points in the same subnet?
/André

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WISM and AP homing

Hi
We have just deployed approx 290 AP's and we have three WISM's (A,B,C) with 150 primary to A (secondary is B), 150 primary to B (secondary is A).
Ignoring the fact that there are two controllers per WISM, when we shut WISM A down we get approx 250+ on B and the rest on WISM C.
This number varies but we never manage to get all 290 AP's on WISM B. Its as if WISM B is so busy that numerous AP's give up and try something else.
The interesting thing is we have NOT coded WISM C into any AP configs.
So my questions are:
1. Why haven't all 300 AP's managed to register with WISM B (as coded).
2. If WISM C has been learnt by some other means is this expected behaviour to register to any WISM even if its not in your primary/secondary/tertiary settings.
This is not how I understood it should work from Cisco. I do not want these particular AP's to register to WISM C. On the flipside, I could understand the rationale of wanting an AP to register to any controller if possible rather than be isolated.
Has any one had similar experiences ?
Are there any plans to prioritise which AP's can register to a controller i.e. If I had 310 AP's but only the backup capacity for 300 it would be nice to have a feature to predict which of the 300 register rather than the unpredicatable method of present.
regards
Paul

I have deployed aprox 350 aps, since they are divided up among three different campuses, we never had one with more that 120 aps, recently we added 50 more aps, but one of the controller maxed out at 150, the other controller has failed to respond to the aps even though dhcp option 43 has its ip address configured.
how were you able to have the aps load balance or fail over to the secondary controller.

WiSM's Code 4.2.61.0

Hi all and Happy New Year!
In my effort to kick the new year off right, I have decided to upgrade my WiSM's. I really want to have 16 VLAN capability with my wireless network and so I am wanting to know if anyone has gone to the 4.2.61.0 code and if so, what issues have you run into. I have gone through the caveat list in the release notes and the list of issues is long and distinguished.
To tell you a little about my network, I have 4 WiSM modules in two 6509 chassis in two different buildings and approximately 430 access points across 45 locations with over 1200 clients. My goal is to make things operate more smoothly and gain several more VLAN's to help break off some of our more chatty devices.
Thanks in advance for any and all responses.
David Beaver
Spartanburg Regional Medical Center
Spartanburg, SC

Thanks Mark and Randy. I had taken the time to read alot of the posts about issues with 4.2.61.0 dating back before Dec. 1st, but I was just throwing the question out there to see what everyone elses experience was with the 4.2.61.0 code was.
It's very hard to make the move to upgrade, but I definitely want to just for the extra 8 vlans. That will solve so many issues for me right now, and if there are no real configuration issues, then I may go ahead and roll it out. We are getting ready to install the 4th WiSM in about a week and I'm not looking forward to it.
Thanks again for your feedback and keep me up to date if you encounter any issues.
David Beaver
Spartanburg Regional Medical Center
Spartanburg, SC

Wism Service Port issue

Hi All,
I am trying to configure a new wism module, as per the cisco official document i have configured all settings for the service interface, but it is not leasing ip address from my dhcp pool. What could be the possible reason ? Please Help
Thanks in advance.
Rgds.
Shijo.

Hello All,
Thank you very much for the replies and let me inform you that i could resolve the problem by myself. I am glad to share my experiance and solution herev.
As per the cisco documents the 'service port' will automatically lease an ip from the service vlan dhcp pool, as i posted b4 it was not working. Then tried to access the wism's console port using the default user name and password 'admin' (as per cisco documnets). But unfortunately for me it was 'cisco'. (It really took half of a day to make a blind attempt, my bad luck ). Using the newly discovered user name and password i had logged into the cosole and serached for a solution. The result was bit shocking - DHCP in service port was disabled !!!.Anyway i fixed it and logged out. The service port then leased IPs from the sevice vlan dhcp pool.
Then i tried 'session' to the controller, it simpley gave me the next issue. The switch failed to session into controller !!. After a few hrs attempt i found that telnet was also diabled in the controller from the wism's console, fixed it from the wism console itself.
Again, as per the cisco document in the first loggin to the wism you will get a configuration wizard, i didnt get anything like that .
Anyways for the time it is working fine, and as it is my very first experience with a WISM i am expecting more issues when entering into more complex configuration. I expect all of yours support then.
Merry X'mas in advance.
Thank you very much,
Shijo.

WiSM & SUP720 Performance Issue

We use WiSM 4.0.217.0 and SUP720 12.2(18) SXF5. We experience bad performance with wireless client download, for only about 70kbps. I tried with a WLC2006 connected to the same SUP720 with similar configurations with WiSM and I got 2Mbps download speed via WLC2006. Has anyone seen this issue before?
Thanks!
Zhenning

There are several possible reasons that this error message is generated. From the WiSM's perspective, the most common reason is an incorrect configuration of the service port on the Supervisor Engine.
In the case of a WiSM, the service port is used solely for communication between the Supervisor 720 and the WiSM.
Complete these steps in order to get rid of this error message.
Create a new VLAN for the WiSM service ports on the Supervisor Engine that does not exist anywhere on the network.
Create a DHCP scope setup on your Supervisor 720 to assign IP addresses to the service ports of the controllers. This IP range should not start with the same octet of any interface that already exists on your network .
Note: It is recommended that you create a DHCP scope for the service port of the Catalyst WiSM. Alternatively, you can also session (session slot X process 1 or 2 ) or console directly into the WiSM and set the static IP addresses (configure the interface address service port).
Assign the WiSM service ports to this newly created VLAN with the command wism service-vlan new VLAN ID on the Supervisor Engine.

4 Wisms deployment

i have a job to do and you guys support is highly appreciated from me.
i have 2 cisco switches on two seprated chasis
VS-C6509E-S720-10G
and i have 4 wism cards(WS-SVC-WISM-1-K9=) (SWISMK9-50)
to install 2 on each chassis respectivly and 4 wism means i have 8 controllers each contrller support 150 access points.
i have total number of access point are 600 to install in sevral buildings
i allready configures 1 or 2 contrller in other jobs but this time is something is very bigger than that and i am a little confused.
let me tell you the senario that i will distribute them.
all controllers will communicate to each other in one RF-Group
off coursre there is redundacy for the access points
i have approximatly 42 ssids will be configured on each controller
and number of total building are 7
i want the pruning in ssids like for each building have separate separate ssids and i want just that ssids to broadcast and enable in that building
The question is that if i configure all of them on controllers than contrllers will push all that to each access points right?
How i can disable them for specific building and just broadcast the one that i have for that building only? and how i can do that i mean where i have to configure and what to configure?
Also for redundancy of the access points what is the best practice in my design as per of your knowledge please share with me?
OR anyone can help me to how i have to start for the implementaion of this design with his own experience and ideas? to done this job successfully?
your reply will be highly appreciated.
thanks

all controllers will communicate to each other in one RF-Group
Cisco doesn't recommend this.
i have approximatly 42 ssids will be configured on each controller and number of total building are 7i want the pruning in ssids like for each building have separate separate ssids and i want just that ssids to broadcast and enable in that buildingThe question is that if i configure all of them on controllers than contrllers will push all that to each access points right?How i can disable them for specific building and just broadcast the one that i have for that building only? and how i can do that i mean where i have to configure and what to configure?
AP Group is your best candidate to achieve this.
Also for redundancy of the access points what is the best practice in my design as per of your knowledge please share with me?
1. Make sure each chassis is located in different location, different power feed source (aside from UPS/generator).
2. Make sure your links have redundant dark fibre.
3. Configure Primary and Secondary controller on your WAPs where the secondary controller is a controller found in the opposite chassis.

WiSM Service Vlan Issues

Folks,
I have seen strange problem in WiSM, while configuring as service vlan, I could see the status of one of the service vlan's as Oper-Up. Second one is mentioned as -- , whereas I could access both wism by means of html. Through CLI i could access only one WisM.
Apart from that, I could see in log files lost hearbeat with supervisor. Is this log related with the missing service vlan's . How can I solve this issue? Will it be due to WiSM/Core Switch IOS incompatibility?
Regards,
SIDdarth

Folks,
1. Could you please advise regarding strange issue which happens on my wism
When I type show wism module, I see one of the controller is mentioned with service vlan ip and controller ip and status as 'Oper-Up' , whereas second wism controller does show any ip and is mentioned as -- with status mentioned as 'Service-Up'. But remotely i can access both controllers through WiSM.
Why does it come so? I am having controller firmware version 5.0. How can I solve this issue.
2. Secondly as I have heard from other users that 5.0 is buggy firmware, will I lose my configuration if i upgrade firmware to 5.2/6.0
Please provide me ur experiences.
Thanks a lot
-SIDdarth

WISM Controllers crashing - anyone else having this problem

Is anyone else having problems with WISM based controllers unexpected crashing? I have an open tac case and I did get a replacement module for one switch, but I am not confident that the problem will go away. The system is not logging anything to the crash files, and it took me a while to convince tech support to replace the hardware. They kept saying it was some undefined software bug. I am running version 4.2.112 code. I have that same code running on several standalone controllers and it's been very stable. I was wondering what everyone else's experience has been with this hardware.

My problem is that the controllers just randomly reboot themselves. They have always come back up and the access points re-associate. It's happened in the middle of the night with no clients as well as the middle of the business day. Sometimes it's just one of the controllers on the wism, and other times both controllers have gone down together.

PI lost connection with WiSM-2

Hello,
We have installed 2 new WiSM-2 in HA with software version 7.3. We have also upgrade NCS 1.1 to PI 1.2.
After adding the primairy WiSM-2 in PI we can manage the WiSM-2 for a short time from PI. But after a few minutes we lost the connection to the WiSM. After searching while we experience the problem we found the following:
- PI and WiSM are in the same subnet
- Both PI and WiSM can ping the gateway.
- Both PI and WiSM can ping a lot of other devices in the same subnet and other subnets.
- We can manage PI and WiSM directly from it's ownGUI.
- PI and WiSM have each others ARP entry in their own ARP table
- BUT PI AND WISM CANNOT PING EACH OTHER
- after doing a 'clear arp' on the WiSM the connection between PI and the WiSM is established again for a few minutes and we can manage the WiSM from PI.
Does someone expecting the smae problem and a solution for this?
Thank you in advance
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Thanks for your response.
I checked the IP addressing VLAN Config but these are correct. If it wasn’t you should think that communication isn’t possible at all.
ICMP is enabled in the NCS. Both devices are in the same subnet so the traceroute just shows 1 hop.
NCS/admin# show icmp_status
icmp echo response is turned on
NCS/admin# traceroute 192.168.x.x
traceroute to 192.168.x.x (192.168.x.x), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.x.x 0.758 ms 0.790 ms 0.837 ms

For Users of WRT350N - My experience

For all you WRT350N Users out there, I thought I'd post my experience and tips gained over the past 7-8 months using the WRT350N since my WRT54G died.
I purchased the WRT350N obviously as a replacement for the WRT54G with extremely high expectations. Though I did not have any -N equipment as yet, I was planning on it. I did like the fact that it had the USB port. It was also a Linksys product so I expected the same good, reliable experience with it as I had in the past. I was upgrading some of my home office equipment and wanted to embrace wireless for all my peripherals (ie. get rid of the wires).
In the beginning, it was hell.
I suffered from all kinds of bizarre and cryptic events. The WRT350N was at 1.03.2. I had all manners of dropped internet connections, extremely poor wireless performance (WEP and B/G Mode). You've read the threads, I've experienced them all. I almost threw the unit out in total frustration. I upgraded to 1.03.7 about a month after purchase following the procedure outlined by other contributors on this forum...(You must follow the instructions to the letter).
Since then, the unit has worked as advertised in wired modes: internet connection has been solid and stable with no re-boots. The wireless piece has been a bugger running WEP and in B or G... still had 54MB/s when close to the WRT350N but this dropped considerably when the wireless device was moved to other parts of the house.
Well, I fixed the problem... and wireless piece is now running at 270MB/s (-N Mode) flawlessly throughout my house. See below.
So, what have I learned and is it of any use to anyone else?
First off, everyone's configurations, equipment, environment, needs and expectations are different, so take the following with a grain of salt. This is my experience.
My Network and stuff:
Cable Broadband - Cable modem
DellXPS-3.4Ghz (Desktop), 1 TeraByte drives configured for RAID 0, 1 GB Network card, lot's of USB devices hanging off it - everything running on MS XP - System is wired to the WRT350N.
Dell8100-1.5Ghz (Desktop), 500GB Drives, 1GB Network card and a bunch of peripherals - everything running on MS XP - System is wired to the WRT350N.
1 Terabyte USB External Drive used primarily for backups. Originally purchased to hang off the USB port of the WRT350N as a quasi-network drive... It can be configured and it does work. However, I had trouble with Norton Ghost 12 doing backups to the drive via the 350N USB port. I removed it from the 350N USB port and re-attached it to a spare DELL XPS USB port - no problems since. I also have a number of printers, three of which are directly connected to the Desktops.
I purchased a HP Photosmart C8180 All-in-one (good unit BTW) as a network (wired or wireless) color printer and for photo printing etc. It worked intermittently with the 350N when configured for wireless using WEP and in B/G mode. The printer, unfortunately does not support wireless in -N mode using WPA2 Personal-AES. So it is now wired with network connection at 1 GB.
Dell Latitude D600 Laptop... Frustrating!!! With the on-board Intel Wireless B/G, I never really got consistent, solid network or Internet connections via the 350N. It worked poorly with the 350N - wireless. It worked fine wired to the 350N.
Solution: I disabled the on-board Intel Wireless and purchased a Linksys WPC300N - It is a -N device. I really crossed my fingers with this purchase. Well, the card works. I get solid, repeatable wireless connection to the Network/Internet anywhere in the house at 270MB/s. I have had absolutely no interference from any of my neighbor's B and G routers. I have yet to experience any degradation in speed or signal. Use: WPA2 Personal-AES for security. Faster than all the other settings I've tried.
So the 350N works in my case, as advertised. My first -N appliance - the WPC300N card for the Dell laptop also works as advertised. I haven't hooked up XBox or fully utilized/explored all the other features nor have I set up the router for VPN (one step at a time).
So here's what I have in the configuration:
Under SETUP/Basic Setup: Internet Connection Type: Automatic configuration - DHCP
DHCP Server: Enabled - Use DHCP Reservation and assign your devices (MAC Addresses) to IPs
Under SETUP/MAC Address Clone: Enable. My DELL XPS MAC is cloned here (Must do)
Under SETUP/Advanced Routing:NAT Enabled
Under Wireless/Basic Wireless Settings:
Network Mode: Mixed (b/g/n)
Network Name (SSID): Put your SSID here (anything other that linksys!) Radio Band: Wide - 40MHz Channel
Wide Channel: 3
Standard Channel: 1 - 2.412GHz
SSID Broadcast: Enabled
I've experimented with the Auto settings here... it works but I got better results in my case with the above.
Under Wireless/Wireless Security: Security Mode: WPA2 Personal
Encryption: AES
Passphrase: I put a name in here
Key Renewal: The default I believe is 3600 (works). I put in 7200 (works)
Under Wireless/Wireless MAC Filter: (Kind of up to you. For added security, I enabled it and put in my Laptop and other wireless devices MAC addresses here.
Wireless MAC Filter: Enabled
Access Restriction : Permit PCs listed below to access the wireless network.
MAC Address Filter List : Fill out your applicable MAC addresses here. Under Wireless/Advanced Wireless Settings: AP Isolation: Disabled
Frame Burst: Enabled
Authentication Type: (Default: Auto)
Basic Rate: (Default: Default)
Transmission Rate: (Default: Auto)
N Transmission Rate: (Default: Auto)
CTS Protection Mode: (Default: Auto)
Beacon Interval: 50
DTIM Interval: 1
Fragmentation Threshold: 2307
RTS Threshold: 2306
Under Security/Firewall:
Firewall-SPI Firewall Protection: Enabled Everything else - default
Under Storage: I had this configured to handle my USB Terabyte drive but since decoupled it for other reasons. It works and has worked as a Network drive in my case.
Under Access Restrictions: I left everything default here.
Under Applications and Gaming: I have done nothing here. Can't advise on port forwarding or the like.
Under Administration: Everything here is vanilla except under Management I have enabled Upnp.
Hope this helps someone.
Cheers!

My WRT350N has given me very little trouble, however the storage link does not work that great. I definitly like the WRT350 router over my old WRT300. Thanks for the tips and info. I just wished that LInksys came out with firmware updates for there products more often that fixed bugs.

What's new in Java 5 & 6 (Experience programming coming back)

All -
I've been away from Java for a year in the wonderful world of dynamic languages (ruby and python) but I've had 6+ years of Java coding experience. I've heard that Java 5 & 6 have added some pretty cool features like better for loops, block like structures, etc. I've been told that Java is starting to introduce features which give it a more "flexible" feel, similar to a dynamic language.
Anyway, for someone coming back, can anyone give me a quick list of the new WOW features in Java 5 & 6 that I should be looking to use?
Thanks,
Drew

Heh, not new but was a bit hopeful the the forum
environment had changed in the last yearMaybe if less people came and posted open-ended vague questions that they should have started looking with Google for information about so they could ask more specific questions.....
I mean I don't know. It was a dream I had once. Everyone was very nice here. People used google. Nobody pleaded for "teh codes". People used PreparedStatement. People stopped crossposting. Lazy students stopped lying.
It was amazing.

A realistic assessment of your experiences of hardware needed for the type of editing I do please.

Introduction:
I apologise for the length of this post but from experience of reading here, I'm working on the principle of the more I explain about myself now, the less anyone willing to help me will have to ask later.
I have lurked around this forum on and off for a few years, read the various threads in the FAQ section, particularly PPBM5 and What PC to build thread and other related topics around what system to build. I have found them very useful and in particular have enjoyed reading about Harm Millaard's experiences First Ideas for a new system. For about about 12 months I've been delaying upgrading my PC but in Mr Millard's latest updates on his PPBM6 site he talks about new systems and provides a link to Intel's time line which suggests they are in no rush to replace the i739xx series CPU chip - which has I believe amongst other things 2 cores disabled. Normally bitter experience has taught me not to rush out and buy the latest technology but let others "test" it first and then benefit from reduced prices as that model is replaced. However, it now seems like last years technology is going to remain as this years technology and probably the first 2 quarters at least of next year and, if anything, the price of the i739xx series is at best staying at it's existing launch price or even rising. So it's time to take the plunge for me and upgrade.
My current hardware for editing:
I started with Premier 6.5 after I bought it as part of a bundle with a Matrox RTX 10 card - one of the most temperamental pieces of hardware I've had the misfortune to work with. I later upgraded to Premiere Pro 1.5 and edited with that using a Pentium 4 2.6 (overclocked to 3.2), 3 hard drives (no raid) and 4G of memory. The video footage used was avi recorded using a Canon MVX 30i and Panasonic NVGS27 and now I've added the Casio Exilim EX -FC100 (mpeg format) and a Panasonic HDC S90 (AVCHD).
My PC coped with the editing I did with avi footage but couldn't handle AVCHD format and this convinced me to upgrade to Premiere Pro CS5.5. At the same time I switched to editing on a Dell XPS M1530 (Centrino duo chip) - I upped the memory to 4GB, put Windows 7 64 bit home edition on and replaced the existing hard drive with a faster one. In addition I use a SATA Quickport duo attached to my laptop via an eSATA card. However, either the Quickport, eSATA card or XPS is extremely temperamental - I never see two external hard drives, 50% of the time see 1 external drive or none at all - when that happens I edit around it doing things I can with just the one internal drive - but this problem is not my question.
The type of editing i do:
I know people usually say around here not to try editing on laptops and believe me, I understand why, but using this setup I have been able to edit lots of videos - see here for examples of the type of editing I currently do:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PathfinderPro
The equipment test videos place the biggest strain on the hardware when editing. And, to do this editing I have to convert my AVCHD footage in to it's YouTube format before editing and even after I've done that it can be tediously slow to edit and playback even with premiere set to play at 1/4 normal quality. To convert the AVCHD footage to the YouTube format I edit in has to be done over many nights.
Now I am not a professional, I typically edit with up to 4 tracks of video with additional tracks for titles and my target audience is YouTube - which is why I can get away without editing in my prefered option of native AVCHD video format. However, I'm tired of all the waiting, stuttering, and many many days and hours of converting videos into a format I can use so I'm looking to upgrade. My problem is though I'm uncertain what path to take. The PPBM results are dominated by overclocked chips, and whilst the motherboard make and model is listed, the hard disks used, graphic card makes and models and memory modules are not. This is not a criticism of the PPMB tables (big thank you to Bill Gehrke & Harm Millaard for taking the time and effort to pull this much information together) but for me, I am not interested in being in the top 1000 in the world, nor overclocking like mad, and having had horror experiences of using matrox products and compatibility and stability issues with other hardware I'm more interested in compatability and practicality than speed when deciding what to build. I've also read the threads about marvel controllers, dual and quad channel memory support, the pro's and cons of SSD or standard drives, raid setups, the heat problems with overclocking the newer ivy bridge chips and general build advice etc so I'm not coming here without having done some reading first.
The type of system I'm thinking of:
So far based on what I've read here, I've come to the conclusion - but I'm open to suggestion:
- Chip - regrettably due to the cost and unlikely successor anytime soon - a 39xx (with appropriate cooler) because I want to edit in native AVCHD which seems to require the warrior type chip as opposed to the "economical" build regardless of what my target audience is and this suggests
- X79 motherboard (which must have an old PCI slot such as the Asus Sabertooth and which has room for the cooler I'm considering). As I will be carrying over my old terretec DMX 6 fire 24/96 soundcard - all my videos have their audio mastered in Audition using this card - best piece of advice I read was the audience will watch a bad video with good sound editing but not the other way round)
- 4 hard drives plus additional hard drive for operating system using onboard raid controllers (not sure whether the operating system drive will be WD caviar black or SSD and can't justify cost of external raid controller for either my type of use or number of hard drives being used)
- Video card - I can now buy a GTX 580 for less than the 670 - so not sure on the card especially based on Harm Millards observations that memory bandwith seems to be as important as CUDA cores
- Case - I have an Akasa 62 case with room for 5 hard drives - I won't be exceeding that, and if I overclock it will only be by a little so is it really necessary to replace it for a Tower Case - although I would prefer a case with a front connection for esata so I may have to change the case regardless
- Maximum memory 32G - so is it necessary to upgrade to windows 7 professional?
- Power source - I'll work out when I've decided on my components.
Help please:
For me it's video source/dictated software chosen and hardware/audience(youtube) dictates format edited in. As I don't intend to change my camcorders format (AVCHD or mpeg) in the next couple of years and I'm not interested in having the "fastest" system around what I'm really interested in learning is:
what system setups people use now for doing similar editing to me
what make/models of the component parts in your system work well together
and if you do have a bottle neck in terms of hardware, where is it and what hardware would you change to (not a dream model change, just a practical and realistic one)
I have deliberately not given a budget for the changes I'm intending because budget should not be the deciding factor in determining what I "need" to upgrade to for the "type of editing I do" - especially bearing in mind I've got by so far (admitedly at a tortoise pace) with by todays standards a standard spec laptop. Basically I don't want a Rolls Royce to go shopping at Wallmart but I'm tired of walking there and carrying everything back by hand!
Thank you very much for any help / experiences people can share.

Thank you both for your prompt and helpful replies.
Mr Millaard, regarding your excellent article Planning and Building an NLE system, I have read it a couple of times now and it was your article which finally convinced me the time was now to upgrade but within it you said for good reason "Initial choice of CPU: i7-39xx with the intention to overclock to 4.6 - 4.8 GHz", hence my uncertainty about the CPU to use. I have seen a video you posted here - I think it was based on your cats (which I incidently enjoyed) so working on the editing done there (but not remembering if you mentioned what video format you used) and others who have mentioned many pro's for the i7-39xx I was leaning towards that - but I'm financially relieved at least - if the i3770 will do, although now with the possible recommendation by JEShort01 (sorry not sure of the forum etiquette for use of names) of the 2600K overclocked I'm a little bit back in the position of which is more suitable especially with the update to the i3770 being nearer than i7-39xx. This still makes me lean towards the i7-39xx.
Regarding the editing, the match play you can see on the channel is indeed 1 camera basic edits - multiple titles used to provide the score board. However, the coaching videos use mulitple cameras - 3 to 4 sometimes (another reason for upgrading to CS5.5 for the multi cam editing support) and the equipment testing video can use 3 or 4 tracks layered on top of each other other with each track having opacity settings and multiple motion effects and titles with occasional keying video effects added. For example this video at approx 2 mins 50 and 5 mins 10 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1E5T7xo57c&list=PL577F7AB5E31FC5E9&index=13&feature=plpp_v ideo
Monitor wise I use dual monitor setup. My laptop screen and I link out to an LG M2394 D for widescreen and I sometimes use an old Neovo F-419 for 3 / 4 editing. I won't be using more monitors than 2. If the 580 drops a bit more I'll probably go for that - although I'll have to make sure it's size isn't an issue for the motherboard combo setup. Interestingly there is a thread shown on the forum home page which discusses the 570 vs the 660ti and the opinion was go with the 660ti which surprised me a bit.
Windows 7 professional it is then - I should have known that too - apologises for asking a question already asked.
"Accepted, your correct criticism of the lacking hardware info on the PPBM5 website. That is the overriding reason that for the new site http://ppbm7.com/ we want to use Piriform Speccy .xml results to gather more, more accurate and more detailed hardware info."
No criticism intended Mr Millaard - more an observation and I really look forward to that evolution with PPBM7. I'm assuming the .xml results will use pre populated drop down lists people can select their hardware from - that way you can control and ensure consistent entries - downside being the work required by you to populate the lists in the first place and maintain them.
Thanks again for your help but I'm still unsure a bit about the CPU and video card though.

The Enterprise Mac: What works on a Mac based on my experience at SAP.

I've been a Mac User at SAP for 4.5 years and here's what I have running and what I know of that should work.
First, the stuff that I rely on everyday:

SAP Portal in Firefox - almost everything works. The navigation panel has a scroll bar in it, but is usable. I have imported my SSO certificate from Secude's SSO solution on PC into Firefox, so I can access SAP's corporate portal.
Firepass and Contivity VPN- Both VPN solutions work with my PowerBook G4, although I heard that Intel based macs don't yet work with F4 networks Firepass. At TechEd Las Vegas '06 F4 claimed that this is now fixed and SAP has yet to deploy it.
Windows Networking, File Servers- This works exceptionally well (except the resource links on mac use slashes (like web addresses) and in windows they use whacks (\). Annoying. I can authenticate agains the domain and even change my NT login password. I use Dave from <a href="http://www.thursby.com">Thursby Software</a>. For proxy serving I use auto-configuration using a PAC file.
Desk-top to desk-top sharing- I use this everyday because I have both a Widows Machine (for Netmeeting) and I need to share files back and forth. I can open the Mac from the Windows machine and the reverse. Again I use Dave from <a href="http://www.thursby.com">Thursby Software</a>.
Remote Desktop- Working for a software company inevadably need to access servers via . It works great!<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=remotedesktopclient">Remote Desktop from Microsoft</a>.
Microsoft Office- I love it on Mac!
Email- I use Entourage, the Exchange client in Mac Office. Over all a good program but suffers from not being fully featured. My top two gripes are: You can book resources in Meeting Requests and you can't forward meeting requests!
Wireless-I use <a href="http://www.ipass.com/">iPass</a> for Mac and it works great when I travel! I can also automatically authenticate against SAP's corporate wireless network using 802.1x.
Corporate Printers- I use Dave from <a href="http://www.thursby.com">Thursby Software</a> again. It works very well. Others have had success without Dave.
Collaboration- Webex works very well, and I have heard that NetMeeting has a Java client. I haven't used it though. Anyone?
== What I heard works ==
SAPGui Java client- I also heard that it is far behind the Windows version. Any comments?
Secude SSO Java client- Apparently the version we're using inside SAP is not an officially supported version by Secude. My contacts there say that they are working on an official version in the near future. Stay tuned.
Windows Messenger- Apparently it was working in SAP, but it was taken down for security reasons... Don't know much else. It sure would make my life easier when its up since the entire company is now using it.

Hi Eric,
My experience on an Intel Mac is this:
- Any SAP website that requires a security certificate does not work in Safari. I've been led to believe this is Apple's problem, and I can work around it by using Firefox, but still. In Firefox, there are issues with SAP's websites. In the forums, for example, and page will open in the middle, in stead of at the top.
- Windows networking: the usual problem is OS X's inability to remember logins. It's fairly annoying to have to re-type my login and password every day. And at my current client I can't get to the network at all. I'll have a look at Dave, see if that helps.
- Office: it works well, now that I've upgraded my MBP from 1 to 2 GB. Before it was sluggish, and in tandem with Parallels, it was physically painful. Now, even when both programs are running, they run just fine. Although Office could use some more of "the snappy".
- I use Mail, Address Book, and iCal. It does what I need. The only thing I'd be interested in is some way of plugging into my customer's address book to find e-mail addresses.
- SAPGUI for Java: this works, mostly, but it is slow. Embarrassingly so. It's slow in general, but anytime a longish list needs to be loaded, it gets real bad. Try working in the ABAP editor with an include of 3,000 or more lines... Apart from the slowness, there are a number of missing functions for which I keep Parallels handy. Drag and drop is one, and on the 6.4 version, there was a GUI control that would make the GUI crash.
- Parallels. I can't say enough good stuff about this. Parallels. Parallels. Love it.
Some other points:
- I'd be interested if anyone has installed NetWeaver 2004s under Boot Camp. I'm a bit wary of dropping $300 on a license for WinXP when it may not ever work (Parallels is running W2K, in case you were wondering).
- At TechEd, I had the hardest time connecting to the Internet, even with Firefox. A few sites I could get to, if I disabled images, JavaScript, and Java, but most, even the common ones such as Yahoo or Google, I could not. I ran into someone else using a MBP, and she had no problems whatsoever. So obviously the problem was with my machine, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out what it was. Most frustrating!

Error in installing Experience Manager.

Hi all,
I have installed -
1)MDEX
2)Platform Services
3)CAS
4)Document Converter.
5)Deployment Template.
6)Oracle Endeca Guided Search 2.1.2 for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit)      V31161-01
Everything is installed in a single local machine.The Endeca Reference Application is running fine also.
But when I am trying to install Experience manager -
Oracle Endeca Experience Manager 2.1.2 for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit)-
xmgrworkbench_2.1.2.618087_x86_64pc-win32 -
it is showing the following error.
"All other Workbench installations must be uninstall before installing Workbench.
Please uninstall all other versions of Workbench before running this installer."
My question is -
There is two components in https://edelivery.oracle.com-
a)Oracle Endeca Experience Manager 2.1.2 for Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit)      V31162-01      80M
b)Oracle Endeca Experience Manager Extensions 2.1.2 for Generic Platform      V31169-01      71M
Which one I have use to avail the experience manager's functionality (Template creation etcs ).
Or I have to use both the versions ?
What are the components need to be installed to work perfectly with experience manager .?
Regards,
Hoque

Hi Hoque. I know it is a bit confusing and we are working to simplify things in future releases, but you will want to install
either
Oracle Endeca Guided Search 2.1.2
or
Oracle Endeca Experience Manager 2.1.2
but you do not need both.
Oracle Experience Manager includes Endeca Workbench and the Experience Manager tool and is the option you'll use when the deployment includes a license for Oracle Endeca Experience Manager. The Oracle Endeca Guided Search package includes Endeca Workbench and the Rule Manager tool and will be used for deployments that do not include Experience Manager.
If you're starting a new project, I recommend starting with 3.1 instead.

WiSM, unable to see Interface after adding.

We have an up and running WiSM, for about 9 months. It resides in a 6509 chassis.
I needed to add a new interface for another subnet (previous one was getting over ran, and we have a new project)
I went through the process of adding the interface. I ensured it was active.
At present, from the 6509 I am unable to ping the interface's IP, but I am able to ping that networks gateway.
From the WiSM, I am able to ping the interface's IP, but unable to ping the gateway.
I was not the original configurator of the WiSM and the 6509 build. That person is no longer around.
On the 6509 I have ensured that the : show interface trunk shows the VLAN in question.
I have searched numerous times, and I feel like there is just some nefarious item I am missing on the creation of new Interfaces between the WiSM and 6509.
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks

Have you double checked the vlan tag, subnet mask, etc for the new interface on the WLC? Usually when you cannot ping an interface on the WLC (although pings are the lowest priority) it is a configuration error on the above, or the trunk not allowing that interface, etc.
Thanks,
Lee

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