Here’s the list of all the outside of business hours events that I and others know of at CiscoLive 2016. If you know of others please DM or tweet me @k00laidIT and I’ll get them added.

Saturday 7/9/2016
Adventure to  National Atomic Testing Museum

• 2 PM
• 755 E Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89119 (Map)
• #clatomic 

Sunday 7/10/2016
#CLUS Sunday Tweetup

• 5:30 PM
• Social Media Central, Bayside Foyer, Mandalay Bay

Monday 7/11/2016
Veeam & Nimble Integration party at Cisco Live!

• 7-9 PM
• Crossroads at House of Blues Mandalay Bay
• Eventbrite Registration

Tuesday 7/12/2016
SD-WAN Mixer with Packet Pushers’ Ethan Banks

• 6-8 PM
• Aureole Restaurant-Swan Court, Mandalay Bay
•  Registration Form

Meraki After Party

• 7-11 PM
• Jewel Nightclub, Aria Resort
• Info (Sold Out)

Wednesday 7/13/2016
Customer Appreciation Event

• 2 PM
• Customer Appreciation Event
• T-Mobile Arena (Map)
•  CiscoLive Info

As a SysAdmin I’m used to waking up, grabbing my phone and seeing the 20 or so e-mails that  the various systems and such have sent me over night, gives me an idea of how the day will go and what I need start with. Every so often though you get that morning where the 20 becomes 200 and you just want to roll over and go back to bed. This morning I had about 200, the vast majority of which was from my Cisco Unified Contact Center Express server with the subject “LogPartitionLowWaterMarkExceeded.” Luckily I’ve had this before and know what to do with it but on the chance you are getting it too here’s what it means and how to deal with it in an efficient manner.

WTF Is This?!?

Or at least that was my response the first time I ran into this. If you are a good little voice administrator one of the first things you do when installing your phone system or taking one over due to job change is setup the automatic alerting capability in the Cisco Unified Real Time Monitoring Tool (or RTMT, you did install that, right?) so that when things go awry you know in theory before the users do. One of the downsides to this system is it is an either on or off alerting system meaning what ever log events are saved within the system are automatically e-mailed at the same frequency.

This particular error message is the by-product of a bug (CSCul18667) in the 9.0.x releases of all the Cisco IP Telephony products in which the JMX logs produced by the at the time new Unified Intelligence Center didn’t get automatically deleted to maintain space on the log partition. While this has long since been fixed phone systems are one of those things that don’t get updated as regularly as they should and such it is still and issue. The resulting effect is that when you reach the “warning” level of partition usage (Low Water Mark) it starts logging ever 5 minutes that the level has been reached.

Just Make the Screaming Stop

Now that we know what the issue is how do we fix it?

Go back to the RTMT application, and connect to the affected component server. Once there you will need to navigate to the Trace & Log Central tool then double-click on the Remote Browse option.
Once in the Remote Browse dialog box choose “Trace Files” and then we really only need one of the services selected, Cisco Unified Intelligence Center Serviceability Service and then Next, Next, Finish.
Once it is done gathering all of the log files it will tell you your browse is ready. You then need to drill all the way down through the menu on each node until you reach “jmx.” Once you double-click on jmx you will see the bonanza of logs. It is best to just click one, Ctrl+A to select all and then just hit the Delete button.
After you hit delete it will probably take it quite a while to process through. You will then want to click on the node name and hit refresh to check but when done you should be left with just the currently active log file. Afterwards if you have multiple nodes of the application you will need to repeat this process for the other.

And that’s it really. Once done the e-mail bleeding will stop and you can go about the other 20 things you need to get done this day. If you are experiencing this and if possible I would recommend being smarter than me and just update your CIPT components to a version newer than 9.0 (11.5 is the current release), something I am hoping to begin the process of in the next month or so.

I arrived here at VMWorld 2014 in San Francisco yesterday (Saturday) and the conference doesn’t actually start until tomorrow (Monday) so for the sake of organization I’m going to refer to the events of the past couple of days as Day 0. Yesterday after arriving and getting checked into the hotel I found myself right on time for registration to open up so I walked down. One of the nice thing about the conference being here in SFO is that most hotels are within a 1/2 mile walk to the Moscone. I was very surprised when I got there in that I believed myself to be coming very early and found a pretty significant line. It seems everybody comes early for this one. After that Jet Lag for the most part won and the rest of the day was given to getting past that with the notable exceptions of checking out both the vBeers and Community Kickoff events. Neither of these were sponsored events but well worth the time for the conversation.

So today evidently started with a Bucket List for many that in true Jim form I slept through. At approximately 3:20 AM Sunday a magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook the Bay Area, the largest since 1989. I’m not sure if my sleeping through it is a measure of how tired I was or how comfy Marriott beds are, but nonetheless I missed it entirely and learned about it as friends  back home started checking on me. Once up is when the schedule got crazy and I will use today to illustrate just how busy these things are.

• 7:30-9:45 – Catch shuttle from Moscone West to the VMWorld Fun Run 5k at the beautiful Crissy Field, literally in the shadows of the Golden Gate Bridge. Included in the time is the shuttle back and forth in addition to actually running the race (29:04 was my time for those keeping track).
• 10:00-12:00 – I had a few months back scheduled both the run and my VCP5-DCV at 11 AM without thinking about the time constraints. So I found myself going in and taking my exam, successfully (yay!), stinky and still in my running clothes.
• 12:00-1:00 PM – Clean up quickly from the morning’s activities and grab some food. Both days so far I haven’t been able to make it past this food truck right on the route to Moscone called Señor Sisig, great food and I highly recommend it to any of my fellow attendees
• 1:00-4:00 PM – As I mentioned in my last post VMWorld seems to do a great job of facilitating the community to interact. New this year to VMWorld the guys from vBrownBag and vmUnderground came together to create Opening Acts, a series of 6 panel discussions with some of the brightest minds in the fields including Social Media & your career, Storage, Networking, Cloud, Automation, and Infrastructure. I have to say I learned a great deal from these sessions and when the videos get posted I highly recommend them.
• 4:00-6:30 PM – The welcome reception of in the vendor area for any conference as best I can tell is when the swag free for all is in full force. Vmware’s is no different. I tend to take the conservative approach of only hitting booths that a) I’m already a customer of or b) have a legitimate interest in the products so I won’t mind hearing from them. Even with that my backpack was heaping.
• 7:00-8:00 – Writing this and getting cleaned up again. 🙂
• 8:00-? – The evidently legendary VMUnderground party is tonight in the same space as Opening Acts today. I’ll be attending hoping to blow off some steam and reach out and meet some new people in our industry.

With all that said, it looks to be time to go and I’ll try to update with some pictures tomorrow.