Friday, February 27, 2015

CentOS Recovery Use Case 5: Downloading the Tomcat Certificate Private Key

recently published a blog entry on how one could use the CentOS distribution and Recovery process to access the Cisco UCOS root file system. As noted in the initial blog, this isn't a new revelation. I originally was going to provide a group of use cases in the "primer" but decided that it was a little too long. 

So, I am breaking the use cases out into individual entries. Who knows, over time this may become another series. For now, let's focus on one of the CentOS recovery use cases: Downloading the Tomcat Certificate Private Key.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

CentOS Recovery Use Case 4: Fixing Errors with Custom Announcements

I recently published a blog entry on how one could use the CentOS distribution and Recovery process to access the Cisco UCOS root file system. As noted in the initial blog, this isn't a new revelation. I originally was going to provide a group of use cases in the "primer" but decided that it was a little too long. 

So, I am breaking the use cases out into individual entries. Who knows, over time this may become another series. For now, let's focus on one of the CentOS recovery use cases: Fixing Errors with Custom Announcement Uploads.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

CentOS Recovery Use Case 3: Fixing TFTP Custom Ring Tone Issues

I recently published a blog entry on how one could use the CentOS distribution and Recovery process to access the Cisco UCOS root file system. As noted in the initial blog, this isn't a new revelation. I originally was going to provide a group of use cases in the "primer" but decided that it was a little too long. 

So, I am breaking the use cases out into individual entries. Who knows, over time this may become another series. For now, let's focus on one of the CentOS recovery use cases: Fixing the TFTP Custom Ring Tone Issues.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

CentOS Recovery Use Case 2: License Expiry Issue

I recently published a blog entry on how one could use the CentOS distribution and Recovery process to access the Cisco UCOS root file system. As noted in the initial blog, this isn't a new revelation. I originally was going to provide a group of use cases in the "primer" but decided that it was a little too long. 

So, I am breaking the use cases out into individual entries. Who knows, over time this may become another series. For now, let's focus on one of the CentOS recovery use cases: Fixing the License Expiry Issue.

Monday, February 23, 2015

CentOS Recovery Use Case 1: Modifying License MAC Addresses

I recently published a blog entry on how one could use the CentOS distribution and Recovery process to access the Cisco UCOS root file system. As noted in the initial blog, this isn't a new revelation. I originally was going to provide a group of use cases in the "primer" but decided that it was a little too long. So, I am breaking the use cases out into individual entries. Who knows, over time this may become another series. For now, let's focus on one of the CentOS recovery use cases: preserving a license MAC in your lab or staging area.

Sometimes You Have to Use the Backdoor: Using CentOS to Access Cisco UCOS

It is the middle of the night and you are in the midst of a change control when you run into a brick wall. The kinda wall that can ruin your entire weekend. At a minimum, you have added at least a few hours to the process and boy you are not happy about that. 

Sometimes you just need more access than "the man" wants to give you and you don't want to wait for some tech support engineer to get on the phone to do something you can damn well handle on your own. Yes, sometimes you have to reach into the unconventional pocket of your tool belt and break off a little somethin'-somethin'. This series provides the necessary tools to get access to the Cisco UCOS root file system so that you can get the job done. 

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Software Defect Could Affect Custom IP Phone Service URLs

This is just a quick note on a software defect on Cisco 8800 series IP phones that could break normal operations for custom Cisco IP Phone Service URLs. The issue is documented in Cisco software defect CSCur13256 and may break IP Phone Services running co-resident on a web server (such as Microsoft IIS).