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Monday, January 25, 2016

Out of Compliance on CUCM and need to delete some devices?

I discovered today that CUCM does the same thing Unity does if you let it lock out due to being out of compliance in the PLM.  If you reboot the CUCM you get 24 hours to remove whatever may be causing you to be out of compliance.  I discovered this through a TAC case as a customer had let their system lock out after the grace period and I was in a hard place to tell them either buy more licenses or leave it.  I knew Unity in fact let you reboot and fix the problem and apparently this is also a think as of CUCM 10.x.  Good news, didn't have to make a customer mad!

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Cisco UCS Password

Well the holidays are over and everyone is back to the daily grind.  I know it's been awhile but I was reading an article that was a bit stunning.  Apparently Cisco changed the UCS default password on the C-Series UCS servers from "password" to "Cisco1234".  As of a few days ago this was brought to light and now people can stop calling TAC.  Why was this done and then not propogated down to the users?  Who knows.  Here is a link to the article that explains it all.  Glad someone posted it!