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1. With a 5000 device license,  Campus Manager will only manage 5500 devices.  After that -  no more.
2. The Windows Remote Management service can conflict with RME. Always check that it’s not running. (The WinRM service starts automatically on Windows Server 2008)
3. LMS 3.2 can run on Windows 2008 Server but,  You should disable the FIPS compliance for the CiscoWorks to work properly, because the SSL authentication might fail:

. To enable/disable FIPS on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers:

1. Open  Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative tools > Local Security Policy.
2. Click Local Polices > Security Options.
3. Select System cryptography: Use FIPS compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing, and signing.
4. Right-click the selected policy and click Properties.
5. Select Enabled or Disabled to enable or disable FIPS compliant algorithms.
6. Click Apply.
7. Reboot the server for the changes to take effect.

Cheers

Hi there  -  here’s a great tip for CiscoWorks Campus Manger administrators and users.

Suppose you have a lot of network devices and you spent hours on moving all those little icons on your Topology Map.

Maybe you added all your important  devices (Core and Distribution for Data Centre) to the critical device poller; and maybe you even added a nice background wallpaper showing them geographically  – nice.

And then you get a call from another network administrator or user,  saying his map doesn’t look like the one you created. Well, that’s how LMS Campus Manager works. Every user account has its own map and settings.

BUT,  you copy your map to his account like this:

the admin user's Topology maps

For LMS running on Windows, simply go to the Campus maps folder and find the right map to copy.  Suppose you created our mapas the “admin” user, the goto:  “C:\Program Files\CSCOpx\campus\etc\users\admin”. Now it might take some investigating which xml file is the right one.  In this example the file was called  ” 453.xml ”

Now copy that file to the other users folder. If  the user account was “george” then C:\Program Files\CSCOpx\campus\etc\users\george is where maps are located for george.  (Oh, yes. Remember that the user must at least save one map for the folder to exists)

Easy hey?.  If your running on solaris , you might consider running a crontab job to copy your map to other users on a scheduled time/date, depending on the users.

Cheers.

Cisco Unified Operations Manager 2.2 may produce an error about the server locale during the install.

And even though you checked the Regional Setting in Control Panel etc, you still get the error. Then its time to dive into the registry.

You need to edit your registry and remember to reboot.
Registry must be:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International\Locale = 00000409
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Locale = 00000409

cheers

I’ve seen this problem couple of times and thought its worth publishing.  Sometime the ACS SE loses its IP address when trying to set it up and reverts to DHCP.

Well, you really only need to apply this simple rule:  Plug a network cable in the ACS SE and just for kicks, ping the gateway.

Even though it has been said that this was fixed with patch: applACS-4.1-set-ip-CSCsm73656-Patch.zip, I still found this behaviour with ACS 4.2.

And oh yes, Its not a router console – so set-up your terminal software for console access like this:

•Baud = 115200
•Databits = 8
•Parity = N
•Stops = 1
•Flow control = None

Cheers

QPM still underdeveloped.

Is it just me or does QPM seem to be still in preschool?  With Release 4.1 there are two patches released after. But still, it would seem as though device support is a mystery.

Suppose you need to configure QOS on 4503-SUP6 on the supervisor module. Sure, only if you’re running IOS 12.1E.  And if you need auto-qos it needs to be 12.2S.  And then there’s the  strange missing information about the 4503 line cards. Still investigating.