Jabber for Windows on Win 8

Did a very basic test to run Jabber for Windows on Windows 8 (my home PC), works well  :)

Case Sensitivity in UCM URI DIaling

It is case sensitive on 9.0, and you can change the UCM "Enterprise Parameter" > "URI Lookup Policy"  to case insensitive in 9.1 onwards.  Default it is still case sensitive.

This is what I've extracted from the UC 9.x SRND

Jabber for iPad demo - Chinese Zodiac

Working on a Jabber demo…..too boring to use the name "User 123" or "Demo User" as username for the demo accounts.  Wanna use something more interesting…..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac

Setting Menu Password on Cisco Personal Telepresence

You can optionally setup menu password on the EX series (as well as C series codec and SX20), so that the users cannot change the administrator settings on the Telepresence Touch Panel.

1.  SSH to the unit using the admin credential


2.  Issue the command:

xCommand SystemUnit MenuPassword Set Password: panda123

To clear the password, you can use the following:

xCommand SystemUnit MenuPassword Set Password: ""

Get Call Quality Statistics via UCM CMR

You can get the call quality statistics like MOS, jitter, latency, etc via CMR on Cisco UC Manager.  This is a sample report that you can retrieve from the CDR/CMR report.

On the CMR dump file you can see the details, check out the destvarVQMMetrics for MOS score:

You need to configure UCM so that the QoS column in the report will show the correct information instead of "NA".

1.  On CDR configuration page, Under System > Scheduler > CDR load, Uncheck "Load CDR only", so that CMR will be loaded together with CDR.

2. Under UCM Service Parameter, change the "Call Diagnostics Enabled" value to "Enabled Only When CDR Enabled Flag is True"

Then restart CDR scheduler under Servicability if you want it take effects immediately.

P.S.  My lab system is running UCM 9.1

Windows 8 Enterprise Activation

Just installed Windows 8 on my PC, due to an hard disk issue I have decided to move on to Windows 8 to experience how good / bad it is.  My first impression is quite bad, at least I have found it quite difficult to do my very first thing after every Windows installation - using IE to download Chrome.

Secondly the Windows activation failed.  It didn't prompt me for key during installation, and it can't be activated after finish installation.  I've got an error message saying "Windows can't activate right now.  Error Code: 0x8007007B"

This is the way I have done:

1.  Download Pokki to get your "Start" button back.  It is free and works well.
https://www.pokki.com/windows-8-start-menu

2.  With the "Start" button back, I can access my command prompt now, run the command prompt with admin right.

3.  Run the command "slmgr /upk" to uninstall the original product key.

4.  Run the command "slmgr /ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX" to install your key.

5.  Try to activate again and it will work!

Augmented Reality Proof of Concept Demo

A proof of concept demo, to show augmented reality on Cisco Telepresence EX series video endpoints.  The Atomic tool is used for the augmented reality part.

ISR G2 - cme-srst license

On ISRG2, in order to use cme-srst feature, just installing uck9 license is not good enough.  You also need to activate the cme-srst license by accepting the end user agreement.  After that you can use this feature for 12 years.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/sw_activation/SA_on_ISR.html#wp1155517

Here is the command you need to issue:
config t
license accept end user agreement

reload your router then check:


SRST-R2#sh license det cme-srst
Feature: cme-srst                        Period left: 8  weeks 3  days
Index: 1        Feature: cme-srst                          Version: 1.0
        License Type: EvalRightToUse
        License State: Active, In Use
            Evaluation total period: 8  weeks 4  days
            Evaluation period left: 8  weeks 3  days
            Period used: 38 minutes 3  seconds
            Transition date: Jan 21 2013 17:12:02
        License Count: 20/0  (In-use/Violation)
        License Priority: Low
        Store Index: 7
        Store Name: Built-In License Storage

Be careful that before you do this step, you can still issue the CME-SRST command, it just doesn't work!  The phone cannot be registered with the reject message

Nov 22 09:08:32.987: %IPPHONE-6-REG_ALARM: 24: Name=SEP588D09357799 Load=SCCP6945.9-3-1-3 Last=Phone-Reg-Rej

My IOS version:  15.2(4)M2

Jabber for iPad 9.1 - supports encryption now!

Just tested, works cool.  See the lock icon?

Minnie just bought a new iPad for Mickey with Jabber pre-installed so that she can call him with video anytime.  She is now making a test call between Jabber Video on Mac and Jabber for iPad, via 4G LTE modem.

Hadoop + Cisco SocialMiner = ?

What I am trying to do is to marry BigData Hadoop with Cisco SocialMiner, to collect the latest 1000 tweets on Twitter about Cisco, and analysis what is the most common words that people are using.

One of the beauty of SocialMiner is the API of it is very simple, just a HTTP request then you can get all your tweets in XML format.  You don't need to learn Twitter and Facebook API in order to collect the social contacts that you want.  This is how it works:

Several steps involved:
1. Setup Campaign in SocialMiner to collect Twitter stream with keywords Cisco, #Cisco and @Cisco
2. Write a little script on my Linux machine to get the XML file, and extracted the content of the tweets.
3. Copy it to the Hadoop HDFS, run the word count program.
4. Use Apache Pig, an abstracted level of Hadoop which allows you to use statement similar to SQL, to do the sorting.
5. Format the output in another XML file for graph plotting.  Done!

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