Cisco 7800 Series Media Convergence Servers

September 13, 2006

NOTICE:

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Products Affected

Problem Description

Applications running on Commercially Available Microsoft Windows 2000 Operating System:

• Unified Contact Center Enterprise (CCE)

• Unified Contact Center Hosted (CCH)

• Unified Intelligent Contact Management Enterprise (ICME)

• Unified Intelligent Contact Management Hosted (ICMH)

• Unified Customer Voice Portal (CVP)

Note: Applications running on the Commercially Available Microsoft Windows 2003 Operating System are not affected by this notice. These applications can have Hyperthreading enabled and function properly.

Background

In the course of monitoring server activity, it was found that a third party server monitoring process was consuming a large percentage of CPU resources for a sustained period (2 - 8+ seconds) of time. This caused delays in processing messages and transactions.

Problem Symptoms

With Hyperthreading enabled, the issues caused are not always the same. The end caller might experience various types of failures.

The main characteristic that can be observed is exceedingly high CPU utilization on the server. This can be observed using by using the Windows Task Manager Performance Monitor Tool. While this may not be due to specific Cisco related applications and processes, those applications and processes can be adversely affected by the degradation in overall server performance.

Workaround/Solution

For the following applications which run on Commercially Available Microsoft Windows 2000 Operating System, please disable Hyperthreading:

• Unified Contact Center Enterprise (CCE)

• Unified Contact Center Hosted (CCH)

• Unified Intelligent Contact Management Enterprise (ICME)

• Unified Intelligent Contact Management Hosted (ICMH)

• Unified Customer Voice Portal (CVP)

• Unity Bridge

The procedure to disable Hyperthreading will vary with MCS models. The flag is found in the BIOS settings, typically under the Advanced Settings menu.

Revision History

For More Information

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• Open a service request on Cisco.com
• By email
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