Avaya WebLM 1

[crisponions]

I was wondering if someone can help with out building Avaya's WebLM. We are trying to get some VPN phones going and Avaya now requires this server before issuing a license.

I have installed everything according to the documentation and tested my tomcat server. The problem seems to be that the "WebLM.war" file seems to be missing some files(??)

It says I am supposed to point my browser to

http://<weblmserver>:8080/WebLM/index.jsp

but I get a page not found error, and searching through the WebLM directory this file doesn't exist.

Anyone install this from scratch and have any pointers for me?

 

[Rangoon]

Ok..finally got the license file to show up correctly in WebLM. It shows the number of license available but doens't seems like phones are pulling from it. Is it require to have 2 servers running? Enterprise and Local? I put in the info in Configure Enterprise and when I try to add local with same IP as Enterprise it is saying can't be added becuase its same as Enterprise WebLM server.
Its just one location so I don't want to have 2 WebLM servers running? Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Its friday 5pm and am still stuck here.

 

[squidius]

Hey Rangoon,

I did run into this problem and what I did was reset my IP/Sets to there default out of the box mode. This did two things, if gave me a fresh start, so I knew settings were accurate, but it also removed the 30 day trial license that is automatically initiated once a License file cannot be located. If this does work, please check off the helpful post if you wouldn't mind!

Hope this works, if not holler back!

 

[Rangoon]

Hi Squidius ,

I'll try that on Monday morning. So in your WebLM server under AIPPF do you see Configure Enterprise and Configure Local servers? By just configuring the Enterprise WebLM without Local WebLM, phones were able to pull the license?

Thanks.

 

[Rangoon]

I got the answer from one of the other sites and solution was to use

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/WebLM/LicenseServer

instead of

https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8443/WebLM/LicenseServer

 

[squidius]

The
Port 8443 is where you are suppose to be re-directed to once you connect to the 8080 port!!!!! This is key. I also get redirected to 8443, but it only happens once I log into the port 8080 page, that is how it is suppose to work that came straigth from the designer himself!!!!

 

[siriussatelliteradio]

Avaya no longer requires a WEBLM server for VPN phones with the latest release of VPN hardphone firmware. They did this because the weblm was such a pain but I did get it up and running for two customers.

http://www.sirius.com

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[jimbojimbo]

Sirius is correct. Starting with version R2.1 you should not require a license server. You are however required to purchase the license(s). Material code 196727 NPL $165

If you do have the older license/software the WebLM can be a hassle (especially if your a Microsoft IIS admin and don't know Apache/Tomcat). The version requirements are typically where most people fail. The docs are very specific.

If you are having problems, the error log files for Tomcat are typically the best source of info. First check the manager to see if the WebLM deployed and if it is running. If not, stop Tomcat and review the stderr_<date>.log file. Typically, something was typed wrong in the server.xml file.

Other hints

'java -version' from a command prompt to verify the java version. I always make sure JAVA_HOME, JRE2_BIN and CATALINA_HOME variables are set in my environment.


'netstat -a' from a command prompt and verify ports 8080 and 8443 are listening

open

http://<host>:8080.

Go into the manager and verify the WebLM application is deployed and started.


Security - If nothing else, go into the tomcat-users.xml file and change the default login/password for the Tomcat server default logins/roles. There are better ways to secure the server but I'm not going to give them to you. Go to apache.org and look at JDBC connectivity to use for your authentication Realm (I also use this method to track the IP Phones using the phones subscription service).

James Middleton
ACSCI/ACSCD/MCSE
Xeta Technologies
jim.middleton@xeta.com

 

[squidius]

Guys, can someone please provide a website where I can go to review this "NEW" solution that Avaya finally woke up on? I was the first one in this country to install this as we had it up and running before Avaya Support did.

AVAYA is no longer shipping the VSU Gateway device as it has been turned over to Juniper. Juniper is now shipping the Gateway portion where the authentication happens.

Josh Hotles
CCVP
ACS
MCSE