03-26-2012 12:43 PM - edited 03-19-2019 04:39 AM
Hello all,
As we all know in the IT world, everything needs to be rebooted at times and CUCM is no exception. What is a good guideline to rebooting CUCM? Does Cisco have a specific guideline? I was trying to look through the SRND's for 7.x and 8.x and did not find any recommendations for maintenance. Any reference to a document would be greatly appreciated too!
Thanks,
Justin
03-26-2012 07:00 PM
There is no official recommendation or guidelines for this, so there is no document.
Linux has made it more stable than Windows, still, some bugs or issues like memory leaks from tomcat or others have required, if not a server restart, at least a service restart every week or so. I've seen servers which have been running for over 2 years straight without reboot.
Unless you're having an issue there's no real need for a reboot (IMHO it doesn't hurt either, I do that every once in a while with my lab servers). I usually reboot them every 2 months just to keep everything running smoothly even if not affected by any bug that requires it.
I'd also be interested in hearing if anyone else has a reboot as part of their maintenance plan and how often they reboot their servers.
HTH
java
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04-04-2012 08:46 AM
We reboot yearly. We'd had a few problems where rebooting the subscriber was the fix and the subscriber had been up for almost two years. So to avoid the problem, we chose to reboot yearly.
06-23-2015 09:53 AM
One of our client has 2 CUCM clusters(11 servers in each) running 8.6.2 version on MCS. These servers support about 6000 phones each in UCCE environment.
They are doing scheduled reboot every month.
My first impression was, wow.. I have never seen 1 month reboot period. I know its a big cluster supporting UCCE. However, based on my experience, Cisco's recommendation and the feedback on this thread, we are trying to convince client for a reboot activity every 2 months.
Sometimes, frequent reboot cause issues as well :).
For example:
There are some defects on UCCE side which affect outbound dialer port activation on PG servers. The ports go down/register back with CUCM node reboot but they do not activate on PG. A manual assoication for all the ports is required from CUCM application user side(JTAPI). This brings up dependency with IPT and CCSO teams. I had to work with TAC for 4 months to find that its a defect on UCCE side. There is a difference of lowercase and uppercase letters for dialer ports which comes into picture during a reboot(CUCM and PG). So, we were breaking a smooth running system every month and engaging TAC for this.
I think even for a busiest running CUCM cluster, a reboot every month is a bit too frequent.
I would appreciate if you guys can share your experiences and bring up some guidance based on the load on the CUCM node/cluster and the size of it?
Regards,
Amarjeet
06-23-2015 01:29 PM - edited 05-21-2020 02:52 PM
I have never seen anybody rebooting their CUCM server every month (That does not mean nobody does it, but is definitely not common). I don't a see a need on rebooting every month, however, it shouldn't cause any issues.
06-23-2015 04:21 PM
I dont think so you need to schedule a reboot unless there is any issue. I dont think there is any Cisco guideline or recommendation as well documented anywhere to restart the cluster for apparently no reason after a given amount of time.
I have never done that nor seen this, we have several large clusters and different customer environments.
-Terry
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09-24-2019 01:16 PM
Jaime,
I concur with you regarding the move to Linux. With the Windows server based CUCM and UCCX two companies ago for me, we got to the point where a weekly reboot was absolutely a necessity without doing a full reinstall. The higher ups just added it to the maintenance plan until we upgraded to the latest version. With Linux, I typically do a quarterly reboot of all servers if everything permits that. It has stretched to a year occasionally and we have not had any issues.
I would probably go with my gut instinct on this based upon the configuration, components, and load and the behaviors witnessed and as you said, if you aren't seeing any issues, why potentially create them with a reboot.
Jason
04-05-2012 07:24 AM
I opened a TAC case at one point to ask this same question. We were told there is no official recommendation, but the TAC engineer said his personal recommendation is every 6 months to every year. That was back on the stand-alone servers. I'm guessing it would be the same for a UCS chassis.
05-05-2014 06:08 AM - edited 05-21-2020 02:51 PM
Hello Guys,
Though not an official Cisco recommendation, by experience, people on the field recommend to reboot the CUCM servers at least every six months.
Is like your PC. We all know that you can skip rebooting your PC for a while, and it will work fine for a few weeks (2-3 weeks) but after a while you start noticing that your PC acting "funny". What do you do by then? Yeah, you reboot your PC, and it starts working properly again.
Is the same principle, pretty much all software needs a reboot from time to time.
05-06-2014 07:17 AM
Question: With UCS servers do you just reboot the VMs or reboot the entire UCS server for these maintenance reboots?
05-06-2014 09:19 AM
I'd recommend you to go to CUCM Command Line Interface and run the "utils system restart" command, instead of rebooting the whole UCS server or restart it from the vSphere Client/ vCenter.
05-06-2014 09:55 AM
We typically reboot only the VMs (using the CLI commands mentioned below). We reboot all of our UC VMs at the same time (e.g. UNITY, CUPS, CER, CCX, etc).
That's a good question though. We have power maintenance in our data center yearly and we shut down our UCS servers during that time. But we're thinking about a different power structure where we would no longer need to do this. I hadn't thought about what the best practice would be for the UCS. I'll look into that.
06-10-2017 08:50 AM
Hello Jose,
Is there any precautions needed before reboot the cluster.
We have 2 sub and 1 pub in a cluster.
Give me a suggestion for rebooting cluster.
06-11-2017 10:02 PM
06-12-2017 12:19 AM
Hi Manish,
Our cluster is running more then 170 days.
And we are facing issues like call droping,Noise,...
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