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What is the next logical step in troubleshooting Cisco Unified Presence and Cisco Unified Personal Communicator in a live production environment if the Cisco Unified Presence System Troubleshooter…
The correct answer is C. Enable tracing and use Cisco Unified RTMT to review the traces. When the Cisco Unified Presence System Troubleshooter and Server Health Tools fail to resolve an issue in production, the next logical step is to enable tracing and analyze the resulting logs with Cisco Unified RTMT - a non-disruptive diagnostic action.
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What is the next logical step in troubleshooting Cisco Unified Presence and Cisco Unified Personal Communicator in a live production environment if the Cisco Unified Presence System Troubleshooter and Server Health Tools do not help resolve the issue?
Options
- ARestart the Cisco Unified Presence server.
- BRestart Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
- CEnable tracing and use Cisco Unified RTMT to review the traces.
- DUninstall and re-install Cisco Unified Personal Communicator.
- EReset the Presence Gateway.
How the community answered
(29 responses)- A3% (1)
- B3% (1)
- C72% (21)
- D7% (2)
- E14% (4)
Why each option
When the Cisco Unified Presence System Troubleshooter and Server Health Tools fail to resolve an issue in production, the next logical step is to enable tracing and analyze the resulting logs with Cisco Unified RTMT - a non-disruptive diagnostic action.
Restarting the Cisco Unified Presence server is a disruptive action that affects all active presence sessions in a live production environment and should only be taken as a last resort after diagnostic data has been collected.
Restarting Cisco Unified Communications Manager would cause a broader outage impacting all voice calls and is not a targeted or appropriate next step for a Presence-specific issue.
Enabling tracing on Cisco Unified Presence and then collecting and analyzing those traces with Cisco Unified RTMT provides detailed diagnostic data about service interactions and errors without requiring any service restart or reinstallation. This is the industry-standard next step in Cisco troubleshooting methodology - gather deeper logs before taking any disruptive action. RTMT's Trace and Log Central feature allows targeted retrieval and viewing of these traces.
Uninstalling and reinstalling Cisco Unified Personal Communicator on client machines is an extreme and time-consuming action that bypasses proper server-side diagnostic steps.
Resetting the Presence Gateway is disruptive and premature - no additional diagnostic information has been gathered yet that would justify this action.
Concept tested: Cisco Unified Presence troubleshooting trace collection with RTMT
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/unified-communications/unified-presence/119384-technote-cup-00.html
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