Several remote branch G430's / G450's with 5.2. We purchased a spare s8300d to be staged offsite with CM6 and then on the night of cutover just swap the s8300's. The 5.2 s8300 would then be shipped to be staged for the next site..etc..
My last 3 cutovers using this method has resulted in the s8300 coming right up.. registering successfully to the core and when you go to do the 'save trans all' from the core the new s8300 doesn't update with translations. It was working fine on the 5.2 blade, but not on this new one. The file sync addresses are accurate, no internal traffic is filtered in our MPLS network and the clocks are sync'd using the same NTP server. A rollback was necessary by just re-inserting the 5.2 s8300. Everything came right up and translations updated with no issue. The CM6 blade was taken offsite and re-formatted again.. the next cutover worked without issue. This same exact scenario has happened 3 straight times and the staging has been done by 3 different techs. Has anyone ever seen this and if you know of any things to be aware of when staging offline please share? This is strictly isolated to the s8300 running CM6 on that particular site... I'm assuming it's something in the config of the CM template and not so much System Platform.. but that's just an assumption.
My last 3 cutovers using this method has resulted in the s8300 coming right up.. registering successfully to the core and when you go to do the 'save trans all' from the core the new s8300 doesn't update with translations. It was working fine on the 5.2 blade, but not on this new one. The file sync addresses are accurate, no internal traffic is filtered in our MPLS network and the clocks are sync'd using the same NTP server. A rollback was necessary by just re-inserting the 5.2 s8300. Everything came right up and translations updated with no issue. The CM6 blade was taken offsite and re-formatted again.. the next cutover worked without issue. This same exact scenario has happened 3 straight times and the staging has been done by 3 different techs. Has anyone ever seen this and if you know of any things to be aware of when staging offline please share? This is strictly isolated to the s8300 running CM6 on that particular site... I'm assuming it's something in the config of the CM template and not so much System Platform.. but that's just an assumption.
