Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CallManager)

Document ID: 67914

Contents

Introduction
Prerequisites
      Requirements
      Components Used
      Conventions
Check Password Synchronization
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Introduction

This document describes how to run the Admin Utility in order to check password synchronization for SQLSvc, CCMServiceRW, CCMService, CCMCDR and CCMUser in the Cisco CallManager cluster.

Symptoms

You can potentially encounter these symptoms when you run the Admin Utility (adminutility.exe):

• You see failure audits for SQLSvc in the Publisher. Phones registered to a Subscriber cannot perform Call Forward All (CFA). You are also unable to make changes to the database from the Subscriber CCMAdmin page.

• The AdminUtility does not stop and start services after the passwords of the NT service account are changed.

• There are account authentication failures on the Publisher related to the SQLSvc and CCMServiceRW account.

You can resolve all these symptoms when you reboot all servers in the cluster. This is related to Cisco bug ID CSCsb08117 ( registered customers only) in which the AdminUtility does not stop services. This defect is fixed in Cisco CallManager 4.1(3)sr2.

Prerequisites

Requirements

Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of these topics:

• Cisco CallManager

• Microsoft SQL

Components Used

The information in this document is based on these software and hardware versions:

• Cisco CallManager 3.3(x) and CallManager 4.x

The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.

Conventions

Refer to Cisco Technical Tips Conventions for more information on document conventions.

Check Password Synchronization

This procedure invokes AdminUtility.exe which is located in the C:\Program Files\Cisco\Bin directory. Use the local administrator account on the publisher server to run it. The Admin Utility cannot be successfully executed on subscriber servers.

Complete these steps to check the password synchronization for SQLSvc, CCMServiceRW, CCMService, CCMCDR and CCMUser in the Cisco CallManager cluster:

1. Select Start > Run.

2. Enter adminutility in the Open prompt from the Run window (see Figure 1).

   Figure 1—Run AdminUtility

   

3. Click OK to display the CallManager AdminUtility Login window (see Figure 2).

   Figure 2—Cisco CallManager

   

4. Enter User Password (see arrow A in Figure 2).

5. Click OK (see arrow B in Figure 2). Figure 3 is displayed.

   Figure 3—Cisco CallManager AdminUtility - Before Check Password Synchronization

   

6. Check the users whose passwords you would like to synchronize.

   In this case, since none of the user passwords are synchronized (see the question marks pointed by arrow A in Figure 3), check all the users (see Figure 3). They are SQLSvc, CCMServiceRW, CCMService, CCMCDR and CCMUser.

7. Click the Options menu (see arrow A in Figure 4).

   Figure 4—Cisco CallManager AdminUtility - Check Password Synchronized

   

8. Select Check Password Synchronized from the drop-down list (see arrow B in Figure 4).

   The Check Password Synchronized window is displayed (see Figure 5).

   Figure 5—Check Password Synchronized

   

9. Enter Password Phrase (see arrow A in Figure 5) and Re-type Password Phrase (see arrow B in Figure 5).

   Note: The Password Phrase is different than that for SQLSvc, CCMServiceRW, CCMService, CCMCDR and CCMUser accounts.

10. Click OK to display the result of checking password synchronization (see Figure 6).

    Figure 6—Cisco CallManager AdminUtility - After Password Synchronization Check

    

    When you compare the Password Synchronized column between arrow A in Figure 3 and arrow A in Figure 6, you see that the respective passwords for SQLSvc, CCMServiceRW, CCMServiceRW, CCMService, CCMCDR and CCMUser are all synchronized in the Cisco CallManager cluster. The '?' symbol represents unknown and 'Y' represents a synchronized password.

    Note: The CCMPWDChanger tool is used to change the passwords for Directory Manager, CCMSysUser, CCMAdministrator, and IPMASysUser. Sometimes it is required that a user changes the password before they use the AdminUtility to synchronize the password. In order to run CCMPWDChanger from the Cisco CallManager, choose Start > Run, type CCMPWDChanger and press Enter.

    Note: If IPMASysUser gets failure audits in the application log, reset the password with CCMPWDChanger and check the registry key for IPMASysUser. Reset the CTIManagers on all the CallManager servers in the cluster.

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