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I recently noticed that Cisco has a tool for converting IOS configurations to NX-OS configurations. The tool is called "IOS-NXOS Migration Tool", it is located here: https://tools.cisco.com/nxmt/My quick review follows.

Brief Background I have built custom corporate directories before using the

In this CMUG session I primarily discussed datacenter access layer virtualization. The content drew slides from several CiscoLive 2011 presentations, accompanied by some slides of my own. The intent was [...]

I recently prepared a vPC Best Practices Checklist, a list I and a consulting customer could use as a vPC configuration planning / review checklist. The information is a mix [...]

I’ve been writing blogs for nojitter.com for the past several months. I thought that links from here would be useful so that anyone following my blog posts can find them [...]

When searching for phones in CUCM by specifying a filter on Device Pool, the CUCM returned the following error: Error occurred during find. java.sql.SQLException: A syntax error has occurred. Having [...]

I got in some lab time working with vPC+ last week. I was teaching the week-long Nexus class DCUFI in Indianapolis. I teach it about once a month via FireFly [...]

I've recently seen several Cisco Support Community posts about Cisco Unified Attendant Console (CUxAC) and at least a couple of them are related to instances where BLF does not work as expected.  I have also encountered this issue and thought I'd share my experience.

Background I recently completed a CUCM upgrade for a customer where their CUCM 7.0 system, running on the MCS platform was migrated to an 8.5 system running in vmware (on [...]

Why am I writing this? I have been using and testing submitted version 2.0.1 to Apple (1/24/2012) for release in the App Store. Version 2.0.1 is going to include improvements [...]

Terry Slattery will be speaking at another session at Enterprise Connect Orlando 2012.  He recently added a technical breakout on "How to Keep Video from Blowing Up Your Network".  This breakout scheduled for Monday, March 26, 2012 will offer suggestions to help you walk the fine line of provisioning for…

The Scenario The scenario is pretty straightforward. We have Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 8.5(1)SU3 and Cisco Unity Connection (CUC) 8.5(1)Su3. The use case is that we want to allow [...]