Monday, December 23, 2013

Jabber Video for Telepresence 4.6 - unable to recognize camera on Maverick OS X 10.9

Got an issue on Jabber Video 4.6 on Mac, it can login but can't recognize the iSight camera after I upgraded my MBP to Maverick.  You need to upgrade to 4.7 in order to fix this issue.  I have upgraded to 4.7.4 and works well on my Mac.


Wednesday, December 11, 2013

OTV - Selective Unicast Flooding

Normally in OTV, unknown unicast frames are not flooded between OTV sites and MAC addresses are not learned across the overlay interface.  Any unknown unicast messages that reach the OTV edge device are blocked to prevent layer 2 errors spreading to remote sites.  It is assumed the end points are not silent or unidirectional.  If there is any silent hosts or Microsoft unicast mode NLB is used in your data center, your host will be "disappeared" from the view of other OTV sites.  In 6.2(2) and later, a new feature called selective unicast flooding is introduced and you can issue the command on the OTV VDCs at the site where the server / silent host exists, in result the specified destination MAC address is flooded to all other edge devices in the OTV overlay network with that unknown unicast traffic.


 otv flood mac 0011.2233.4455 vlan 66

RBAC - san-admin on Nexus 5500

Starting from NX-OS 5.2(1)N1(1), Nexus 5500 has a new predefined role "san-admin" which allows you to provide clear demarcation on what SAN and LAN team can do on the Nexus 5500.  You can use this for your DCNM for SAN too.  I have tried it on my DCNM 6.2(3) in lab and it works fine.  User with this right can do most of the things on DCNM for SAN but not DCNM for LAN.  Here is the detail on what a predefined san-admin role can do:

POC-N5K# sh role name san-admin

Role: san-admin
  Description: Predefined system role for san administrators. This role
  cannot be modified.
  vsan policy: permit(default)
  Vlan policy: permit(default)
  Interface policy: permit(default)
  Vrf policy: permit(default)
  -------------------------------------------------------------------
  Rule    Perm    Type        Scope               Entity                  
  -------------------------------------------------------------------
  27      permit  read        
  26      permit  read-write  feature             fcdomain                
  25      permit  read-write  feature             rdl                     
  24      permit  read-write  feature             trunk                   
  23      permit  read-write  feature             fcmgmt                  
  22      permit  read-write  feature             fcfe                    
  21      permit  read-write  feature             port-track              
  20      permit  read-write  feature             fcoe                    
  19      permit  read-write  feature             port-security           
  18      permit  read-write  feature             copy                    
  17      permit  read-write  feature             rmon                    
  16      permit  read-write  feature             rscn                    
  15      permit  read-write  feature             fspf                    
  14      permit  read-write  feature             fdmi                    
  13      permit  read-write  feature             fcsp                    
  12      permit  read-write  feature             fcns                    
  11      permit  read-write  feature             span                    
  10      permit  read-write  feature             zone                    
  9       permit  read-write  feature             wwnm                    
  8       permit  read-write  feature             vsan                    
  7       permit  read-write  feature             vsanIfvsan              
  6       permit  read-write  feature             fabric-binding          
  5       permit  read-write  feature             interface               
  4       permit  read-write  feature             trapRegEntry            
  3       permit  read-write  feature             snmpTargetAddrEntry     
  2       permit  read-write  feature             snmpTargetParamsEntry   
  1       permit  read-write  feature             snmp                

10GBase-LRM SFP+ support on Nexus

A quick note to bear in mind is 10GBase-LRM SFP+ is not supported on Nexus 5500 and Nexus 2000.  It only supports on Nexus 7000 in the Nexus family.

For detail compatibility information please check out here:

Monday, December 2, 2013

UCSM 2.1.3a - Login Error: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 400

Recently I have run into an issue in a customer PoC and encountered a weird issue.  Everything looks fine except I cannot login UCSM.  The UCSM code I am running is 2.1.3a, and I have got the error message:

"Login Error: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 400 for URL: http://ucsm_ip:443/nuova"

Eventually I've found out the JRE 7u45 update breaks this, after lowering the version it works fine now.

Maverick - No Java runtime present, requesting install

After upgrading to Maverick (OS X 10.9), when I try to run java –version in terminal, it showed the error "No Java runtime present, requesting install", however nothing happens except showing this error message.  The solution is to download the official java package from apple website: