02-04-2009 07:48 AM - edited 03-18-2019 10:25 PM
Hi there,
We used to use CUCM 6.x and CUPS 6.x butI've rebuilt our CUPS server as version 7, and we are now using CUCM 7.
I've got everything working apart from the Presence side of things, where the Presence client Server Health under the CUPC client is red, and not able to connect (Retrying). All other connections are green.
I can't see anything wrong on the CUPS server from the troubleshooter, and I have reviewd most/all of the CUPS posts on here regarding this issue.
Thing's i've done to try and resolve the issue:
- Applied an "ALL" incoming ACL
- Set the Proxy domain to "nowcomm.local"
- Reset everything
- Tried multiple PC's in the office to figure out if firewalls were causing the problem, but all have the same problem
When we ran CUPS 6.x everything seemed to work fine with these settings, so i'm a bit lost now as to what else I can try to do!
Any suggestions welcome. Thanks,
Mike.
02-04-2009 08:27 AM
On your CUPS server and also your Pub/Sub, have you added in the correct DNS and domain name to the servers?
You can do this from CLI of each server:
Set network domain (enter domain name)
you will need to reboot the machines.
if this is not in here, typically, the SIP Publish trunk will not work on Pub/Sub correctly. And on CUPS, it can not resolve names correctly.
02-04-2009 08:35 AM
Hmm yes I thought it might be something to do with it - we're not using DNS at all on any of the servers, and i've renamed the hostid's to be just IP addresses.
I'm not ruling this out, but it used to work with 6.x !
02-04-2009 08:39 AM
Right.. it used to work with 6, but not with 7x I have found. I changed everything to IPs and it did not work for me. I opened a tac case, added in my DNS, and domain names to the pub/sub/cups and it started working.
Also, if you are trying to see yourself as presence, it does not work. If open up your client, add in your own name, this hoses the presence state completely.
02-04-2009 08:44 AM
Good point, i'd best remove myself! Thanks for that one...
Just sorting the DNS details now, thanks for the input!
02-04-2009 09:02 AM
I spent hours trying to figure out why my presence would not change. Finally I figured out or TAC, cant remember which, we removed my name from my own client and magically it started working. It's like it was looping itself for presence and never worked. So for testing, make sure you have (2) clients up and running to really test that it works. One client is not a good test.
Good luck!
02-04-2009 09:32 AM
What version is your CUPC? 1.2.x or 7.0.x?
Usually we see this behavior on different version of CUPC instead of CUPS.
Workflow has been changed on CUPC 7.0.x. It'll try to use the node_name+proxy_domain to connect to presence.
For more detailed information, please see:
http://htluo.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-does-cupc-deterine-presence-address.html
Michael
02-04-2009 09:54 AM
Ok I'm using CUPC 7.x
I've added DNS records to our AD server, and then enabled the DNS servers on the CUCM Publisher (We dont have Subs), and on the CUPS server. I then rebooted both boxes.
I can successfully enter now-d-cups or now-d-cm-pub into my browser and it resolves correctly.
Presence still isnt working however. Thanks for your post Michael, I had a read of your blog. Below is the text from the Presence server health window:
Presence.Domain=nowcomm.local
Presence.MostRecentListenPort=50027
Presenc.Primary.Address=now-d-cups
Presence.Primary.Port=5060
Presence.Primary.Protocol=TCP
Presence.username=mgerrard
Users in the contacts list originally appear as aaboo@nowcomm.local before resolving to the proper display name.
Mike.
02-04-2009 10:47 AM
From your CUPC computer, can you ping now-d-cups.nowcomm.local? This is the address CUPC tried to connect.
Michael
02-05-2009 03:21 AM
Hi Michael, yes I can no problems.
The plot thickens...
I found that under licensing, none of the units were being used! Some of the services under service parameters had "Inactive" next to them, but a quick visit to Serviceability told me that the services were activated and running (the troublshooter also says the same). i had to fully deactivate services one at a time, and reactivate them to get the services to go active properly, and to use the licenses from the pool. Definitely something screwy going on!
So..
I'm now able to see that Presence has gone "green" in the client's troubleshooter, but still no Presence information. One other slight oddity is that adding a user to the contacts list, doesn't appear until I close the program completely and re-enter it.
Mike.
02-05-2009 05:53 AM
This is called "Notification Issue". In English - "status didn't update until next logon".
Usually, it's firewall or VPN related. The best way to verify is to do sniffer capture on client and server side.
Michael
02-05-2009 09:21 AM
No firewall involved - just inter-vlan routing.
Although all the services are now green, including presence, we still get no presence information in the CUP client :(
CSS, DNS, all check out ok.
Any more ideas anyone?
02-05-2009 10:13 AM
The idea already given :)
"The best way to verify is to do sniffer capture on client and server side".
That's the ultimate way to tell if it's network related or not. (and easiest way)
02-06-2009 02:24 AM
I should be able to set this up today, and i'll post the results after i've had a look.
Have you any other suggestions though Michael? We're running inter Vlan routing (So no firewalls) and I have disabled all firewalls on my PC, including uninstalling VPN client. The thing is though that it used to work with CUPS 6.x with VPN client installed (Though my Windows firewall has always been disabled). The server has been rebuilt, but has the same IP address so routing etc to the box should be the same.
02-06-2009 04:06 AM
I've had the same problems here and we went back to CUPS 6.0(4).
Cisco has released CUPS 7.0(3) yesterday but there is no Readme for it now on the Cisco Site but all other new documents.
Reg.
Johann
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