We have a production flexpod environment - AFAIK totally standard design - Dual ASA / Dual 4900 / Dual 5548 / dual N1010 / Dual FI / Dual Netapp / 4 physical hosts. I have been asked to assist as the VM guys were having an issue with assigning ports to a new VM - the Port comes up as down - blocked by admin. All the network 'settings' options within vSphere are greyed out. When I tried to SSH to the N1010v / VSM it is not responding on the configured IP address, I have accessed it previously as I have putty logs from End Jan for both the VSM and the N1010v addresses.  I CAN get to the CIMC (Chassis) console via SSH and Http. The Port on the N5548 to the N1010 is up, but there are no MAC forwarding entries for that port... This suggests that the virtual N1010 is down / crashed? Is it possible to access the VSM or Virtual Switch Out of band - using either KVM or Access the serial port of the virtual switch via SSH/telnet? How do I access / manage the Virtual Switch (N1010) VM on the N1010 host? If I restart the N1010 host will that kill networking for the whole flexpod stack? Having done that how do I check that the N1010 VM is running? Thanks David ... View more

This feels like a really dumb question but I have RTFM and still am stuck..  This is my first UC setup, although I do a lot of IP networking... We have a UC540W with 2 x BRI so up to 4 PSTN calls. I want the inbound calls to go to extension 100 which should appear on a line key on all phones so any user can & should pick up incoming calls. Phones are SPA500 Series (504 and 508) I am working in CCA. If I set it up with Line 100 as a shared number on all phones then only 2 calls can be presented and the 2nd call is only presented to the phone with the first call on it, the line key just shows as in use (red) on all other extensions. The phones are not octal line compatible otherwise this would seem to be the answer to the problem. I tried setting up (Via CLI) multiple ephone-dn with the same extension number and these appeared in the list for setting an overlay button, but CCA then overwrote these which makes it an unsuitable solution. The other option would seem to be to set up a multiple extensions (101-104) and put these into a hunt group and under an overlay button, but as these numbers won't be assigned  to an extension so can't see how to create these within CCA - if I put them in as floating extension then they appear in the list for an overlay button but not in the available list for setting up a hunt group.... This doesn't seem like such an unusual setup that it should be so difficult... TIA David ... View more

This will be obvious when I find it but... I am configuring an 877 router as an ezvpn server via SDM... The tunnel comes up but I can't pass any traffic to anything. Now here is the weird thing, if I debug ip packet on the virtual interface I see incoming pings and replies going back but they never arrive at the client, but if I try TCP to the LAN (EG DNS Lookup) then nothing appears either way. This is driving me nuts!!! The VT is unnumbered to loopback1 which has it's own IP subnet & the vpn pool is in that subnet. SDM says IOS fwall inactive if I look at the f/w settings between Virtual template and vlan 1 - not sure if this is important or not!! Both vlan and vt and loopback are NAT inside - do I need to exclude the VPN pool from the NAT translations? "Test VPN server" says firewall isn't configured but the configure firewall link is dead!! Can't post config as I have hung the (remote) router so need someone to reboot it for me in the morning (2330 here...& I'm off to bed!) Any suggestions? ... View more

I am configuring a 877 ADSL router. According to the spec pages it SHOULD support 2 VLANS - one for DMZ - with the base image. However whenever I try and add a VLAN I get a 'maximum number of VLANs reached' message and the VLAN isn't added. The unit has a fairly old software release (12.4(4)T) but I can't see anythingin the release notes for the newer images to suggest that there is a 'fix' in there... From this page: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps380/ps6200/product_data_sheet0900aecd8028a976.html It says "VLAN Support for 2 VLANs with Base Image. One VLAN dedicated to DMZ." ... View more