BCM 400 3.7 Patches

[jcarli]

I am about to replace my hard drive, for the third time, because I keep getting the flashing lights syndrome.

If I reboot, the system usually comes up OK and I can get back into the system until the system goes nuts again.

It is a new BCM - Installed in April 2006.

My supplier and phone guru think it is a software issue, thus the third hard drive.

My question is which patches should I install once I get the drive initialized. The drive comes through my supplier who got it from Nortel. I am not sure what the current revision is on the Drive.

We would patch the current drive, but when I try to install any new patches, I get a message that the F: drive is full.

Thanks,

Jim

 

[lugerlover]

what does vendor say...what does nortel say

 

[acewarlock]

I don't care how old you think it is, it may have been sitting on a vendors shelf for 2 years. Pull the BFT out and look at the Cap's, if they are green you need a new BFT. If there blue, then you have another issiue.

 

[Onyx1]

If BFT is ok, could have a bad MSC. There was an open bulletin regarding the MSC.

 

[biv343]

OK skippy, it's apparent you don't care for the BCM judging by your last few posts in the last few topics. We've got the hint.

 

[ccaug]

BIG QUESTION FOR YOU JCARLI!

Is your BCM on the public network. i.e. Does your BCM have a public IP address and is connected to the internet?

If so, I have found that even with patches installed and the firewall turned on, I am still losing services. Meaning I can't get into the BCM without turning it off and back on again. As soon as I physically unplug the WAN connection everything is stable again.

Chad

 

[jcarli]

Well, the supplier gave me a list of patches, although he could not say for sure which ones to apply.

So, we started with roll up 2 and went from there.

We ran out of space before installing all of the patches he recommended.

So I have to ask - What's with that. Of course what do you expect when the whole web interface and voicemail system is running on an Apache server on a Windows NT 4.0 box.

As for the public network. No, it is behind my ASA/Pix. My IP phones are only available via my cisco VPN. Some day when I get ambitious, I will try turning on the firewall and configure the WAN connector and next hop router(as they call it). However, if that is causing problems, I will keep things the way they are.

So, for now I am up and stable - no more flashing lights for the last 6 days.

 

[biv343]

Sorry to bring bad news, but there is a patch out (or coming out soon) that fixes the issue with the F: drive being full...

Maybe worth a shot to fire up the BCM monitor and see how much memory is being used. If you're using the firewall/NAT/web cache part of the system, you could be running out of memory.