Change CCM Subscriber to publisher

[stevedb55]

Hi All,

Can anyone advise what steps are involved to change a CCM subscriber to a publisher?

Thanks

 

[pndscm]

To the best of my knowledge there is no way to promote a Subscriber to a Publisher.

 

[DallasBPF]

Out of curiousity why would you want to change a sub to a pub? You can only have 1 pub in your cluster.

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[stevedb55]

Long story, but a customer wants to split a two server cluster into two single server clusters, I know its not good practice but the customer is always right......

 

[Iwontremember]

would these be two different companies?

Hope this helps.

 

[whykap]

You cannot change a sub to a pub. You need to rebuild the server and make it a pub in a new cluster.
I do not know if you work for a cisco VAR or not but a single server cluster is an unssuported configuration for a production environment. It is not TAC supported and against all best practices for CISCO IPTEL.

 

[stevedb55]

Thanks for the answers, can you point me to the location where it states a single server cluster is not a supported configuration? I was aware its not good practice and but didn't know it is unsupported by Cisco TAC.

Thanks

 

[pndscm]

Wouldn't a UCM Business Edition be a single server cluster? With BE you can not have a Subscriber.

 

[whykap]

It is a single cluster but I did not see anywhere in this post that we are reffering to a business edition. Since there is a sub already in the picture it would rule out this option in this case.
Steve,
If you read the SRND it is very clearly stated in there that a pub and sub is best practices. If you call TAC with an issue and they see that it is single server cluster, they will ask you to implement best practices (add a sub in this case) and if the problem exists after that you can open a new case.
Obviously this is ultimately your customers call. However in my case I would not do that for a customer without a documented acceptance from them and that they understand the implications involved.

I am not saying it will not work or that you will have issues, I just advice against it.