Cisco VSOM 7.6 No Maps Service

[kris.buckingham1]

I would like to add the maps service to my Cisco VSOM 7.6 server, but I don't see the option there. I look at other servers and I can see the option to make them the maps server (Co-Located maps server) but I do not see the options to enable the maps service on my VSOM. I only have one VSOM and multiple VSM (media) servers. Any ideas?

[Nadeem Ahmed]

Did you mean you are not able to enable/checked the MAP server options? I am assuming this VSOM where you can MAP server too along with  or just a standalone.

Br,

Nadeem

[kris.buckingham1]

Here is what I see with my VSOM when I went to enable the maps service. I have other VSM servers in different locations managed by this VSOM, and I know I can co-locate the maps service on them, but I want it on my VSOM server. See attached.

[Scott Olsen · Accepted solution]

Hey Kris,

What OS is running on your VSOM server?  Something tells me it's not RHEL 6.4 64bit... which is apparently a requirement.

Release Notes for 7.6:

"

This service is supported as a stand-alone server on a server running the RHEL 6.4 64 bit OS, or co-located on a Operations Manager server.

"

... which can be confusing, because earlier in the same document it also states:

"

The Maps, Metadata and Federator server services each require a standalone server in this release. See Ta b l e 4 for more information.

"

Anyway, what OS is the VSOM server operating on?

Cheers!

[kris.buckingham1]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)
Type:OVA
SubType:ucs-bc-series
Version:1.1

This is the OS version. 

[Scott Olsen]

Well, it would appear this is your issue then :-S  You may need to rebuild the box with a RHEL 6.4 image :-S

As your environment is virtualized, I can't see why you couldn't stand up a new server image, then perform a backup on the old, take it offline, then perform a restore on the new one (with RHEL 6.4 underneath).  Haven't moved between OS versions, but I certainly think it should be possible.

Any Cisco reps out there that could confirm for Kris?

Cheers!

[kris.buckingham1]

So would it be a better option be to just spin up a dedicated maps server then, version 7.6.0 like my current? I do not want to rebuild the VSOM server. After labbing up I realized it can only be co-located with VSOM and not VSM. This means either I rebuild VSOM with RHEL 6.4 or I just standup a dedicated maps server. I think the latter is the best. How could I have gotten to 7.6.0 on RHEL 5.8? Was it upgraded from an older version?