We originally had a VCS StarterPack Express, 5x EX-90 and 5x PrecisionHD cameras. We wanted to bring in TMS so we could push phone-books to the EX-90s. I did some research and found out that TMS didn't play well with VCS StarterPack.
Our Cisco partner said we could upgrade the VCS StarterPack to a full VCS control and get TMS as part of that. TMS should play well with our endpoints and all SHOULD be good.
I got my licenses and installed TMS. Got my EX-90s imported and got phonebooks pushed to them. Now I am trying to upgrade my VCS to a VCS control.
I added the option Keys that came with the upgrade SKU and they did not include FindMe. Now comes my issue.
My TMS doesn't have the TMSPE option on it. Do I care? Can I still provision Movi Users? How?
My VCS doesn't have FindMe option on it. Do I care?
The question to both of those depends on whether or not I can still use Movi. I have a few Movi users provisioned in our VCS StarterPack system and I need to maintain that functionality. The various guides i have found on Cisco's site all reference the FindMe option key.
I assume TMS is currently run with legacy TMS agent as provisioning service.
Once you migrate provisioning service to TMS-PE, then license should update to “ Cisco TMS Provisioning Extension (100 active clients/devices)” automatically.
No FindMe option is require for running provisioning service with TMS/VCS deployment.
Of course, you may continue to use legacy TMS agent as provisioning service and current described software license will enable Movi provisioning.
However Cisco recommend to migrate provisioning service to TMS-PE.
Take a look at this document as this will explain in more detail on how to deploy TMSPE. TMS Agent legacy is basically the old way of running provisioning. User data (movi users) are managed on the TMS and replicated to the VCS so that movi users can log in.
TMSPE works almost the same way but the backend database is SQL now and not using OpenDS and is a little bit simpler to setup and much more stable. The document should tell you how to do this.
Since you where using Starterpack you where managing the user accounts on the VCS but now since you have upgraded to a control the user management is done on the TMS but the data will be polled by the VCS so that the data you are managing is "on the VCS" if you think of it like that...
Its quite a few details to this so I think its best that you read through the document and if you have any specific questions to this we would be happy to answer.
Ok thanks. I guess I'm still confused about licensing. Isn't the TMSPE another license I need to purcahse? I listed my applied option keys above. Do I have the pre-requesites to use this?
Hi the first error is normal, as it tries to synch the pb sources ones the service have been enabled.
Did you enable the provisioning mode to Provisioning Extension? If you go to tms server maintenance under admin tools in tms and download the logs from there you should find the provisioning extension logs there.
