Perform Routine Maintenance

Cisco Finesse Services

You can access the following Finesse services from the CLI:

  • Cisco Finesse Notification Service: This service is used for messaging and events. If this service is not started, you cannot view call events, agent state changes, or statistics, and the Finesse Desktop will not load after sign-in.

  • Cisco Finesse Tomcat: This service contains all deployed Finesse applications. A restart of the Cisco Finesse Tomcat service requires that all agents sign out and sign back in.

The deployed applications in the Cisco Finesse Tomcat service include:

  • Finesse Desktop application: Provides the user interface for agents and supervisors.

  • Finesse Rest API application: Provides integration with the Cisco CTI Server for the Finesse desktop and Finesse administration application. The APIs available to a user depends on the role associated with that user's credentials. This application also provides a programming interface that can be used by third-party applications that are written to use the Finesse REST API.

  • Finesse Administration application: Provides the administrative operations for Finesse.

  • Finesse Diagnostic Portal application: Provides performance-related information for Finesse.

  • Finesse IP Phone Agent (IPPA) application: Allows agents and supervisors to perform Finesse operations on their Cisco IP Phone.

If a Cisco Finesse service-related problem exists, restart a Finesse service as a last resort. Most service-related problems cannot be corrected by restarting a service. Restart A Cisco DB only if the service is down.


Note

To restart the Cisco Finesse Notification Service, you must stop and start services in the following order:

  1. Stop the Cisco Finesse Tomcat service.

  2. Stop the Cisco Finesse Notification Service.

  3. Start the Cisco Finesse Notification Service.

  4. Start the Cisco Finesse Tomcat service.

View, Start, or Stop Services

Procedure

Step 1

Sign in to the CLI using the credentials for the Administrator User account.

Step 2

To view a list of all services and their states, enter the following command: utils service list.

Services are shown in one of the following states: STOPPED, STARTING, or STARTED.

STOPPED means the service is not running. STARTING means the service is starting operation and performing any initialization. STARTED means the service has successfully initialized and is operational.

Step 3

To start a service, enter the following command: utils service start service name.

Example:

For example, to start Cisco Finesse Tomcat, enter the command utils service start Cisco Finesse Tomcat.

Step 4

To stop a service, enter the following command: utils service stop service name.

Example:

For example, to stop Cisco Finesse Tomcat, enter the command utils service stop Cisco Finesse Tomcat.

Log Collection

These commands prompt you to specify a secure FTP (SFTP) server location to which the files will be uploaded.

To obtain logs:

  • Install log: file get install desktop-install.log

    Use this command to see the installation log after the system is installed.

    This log is written to the SFTP server and stored as a text file written to this path: <IP Address>\<date time stamp>\install\desktop-install.log

  • Desktop logs: file get activelog desktop recurs compress

    Use this command to obtain logs for the Finesse web applications. This command uploads a zip file that contains the following directories:

    • webservices: Contains the logs for the Finesse backend that serves the Finesse REST APIs. The maximum size of an uncompressed desktop log file is 100 MB. The maximum size of this directory is approximately 4.5 GB. After a log file reaches 100 MB, that file is compressed and a new log file is generated. Output to the last compressed desktop log file wraps to the log file created next. The log file wrap-up duration can vary, based on the number of users on the system. Timestamps are placed in the file name of each desktop log.

    • desktop: Contains logs from the Finesse agent desktop gadget container that holds the Finesse desktop gadgets. Any container-level errors with Finesse agent desktop will appear in these log files.

    • admin: Contains logs from the Finesse administration gadget container that holds the administration gadgets. Any container-level errors with the Finesse administration console appear in these log files.

      • audit-log: Audit logs contain all admin operations (including Finesse admin UI and REST client operations) and supervisor operations for Team Message. The maximum size of an uncompressed audit log file is 100 MB. The maximum size of total audit log files (including compressed log files) is approximately 1 GB. After a log file reaches 100 MB, that file is compressed and a new log file is generated. The log file wrap-up duration can vary, based on the number of users on the system. The log contains the following parameters:

        • Timestamp

        • User Id of the administrator

        • Method of operation (PUT, POST, DELETE ). GET operations will not be logged

        • URL

        • Payload

    • clientlogs: Contains the client-side logs that are submitted from the Cisco Finesse agent desktop to the Finesse server. Each log file is no larger than 1.5 MB and contains a timestamp and the agent ID of the agent who submitted the file. A new log file is created each time that an agent submits client-side logs (the data is not appended to an existing log file). The maximum size of this directory is 100 MB. The directory holds a maximum number of 25000 clientlog files. When the directory exceeds the size limit or the file count, the oldest files are deleted.

    • openfireservice: Contains startup and shutdown-related information logs for the Cisco Finesse Notification Service.

    • openfire: Contains limited error and information logs for the Cisco Finesse Notification Service.

    • finesse-dp: Contains startup, error, and information logs generated by the Finesse Diagnostic Portal application.

    • realm: Contains the logs for authentication requests from clients that are handled by the Finesse backend.

    • db: Contains the Finesse database logs.

    • /finesse/logs: Contains the logs for the Cisco Finesse Tomcat service.

    • fippa: Contains logs for the Finesse IP Phone Agent (IPPA) application.

    • 3rdpartygadget: Contains information, error, startup, and shutdown-related logs for the Cisco Finesse 3rdpartygadget server.

    • jmx: Contains the JMX counters data that is generated by the JMX logger process. It contains important jmx counters that are exposed by Finesse and openfire.

    These logs are stored in the following path on the SFTP server: <IP address>\<date time stamp>\active_nnn.tgz , where nnn is timestamp in long format.

  • WebProxy Service logs: file get activelog webproxy recurs compress

    Use this command to obtain logs for the WebProxy Service. The maximum size of an uncompressed webproxy log file is 10 MB. The maximum size of this directory is approximately 500 MB. After a log file reaches 10 MB, that file is compressed and wraps to the new log file which is generated. The log file wrap-up duration can vary, based on the number of users on the system. Timestamps are placed in the file name of each webproxy log.

    These logs are stored in the following path on the SFTP server: <IP address>\<date time stamp>\active_nnn.tgz , where nnn is timestamp in long format.

    This command uploads a zip file that contains the following log files:

    • access.log: Contains the webproxy access logs after you configure the access log-level using the set webproxy access-log-level CLI. For more information on CLI commands, see WebProxy Service.

    • error.log: Contains the webproxy error logs.

    • webproxy_cli.log: Contains the webproxy CLI logs. For more information on CLI commands, see WebProxy Service.

    • webproxy_launcher.log: Contains the logs after the WebProxy Service is launched.


    Note

    To access the individual log file, use the command file get activelog webproxy/<log filename>.

    For example, file get activelog webproxy/error.log

  • Servm log: file get activelog platform/log/servm*.* compress

    Use this command to obtain logs that are generated by the platform service manager that manages the starting and stopping of the Finesse services.

    The desktop and servm logs are compressed to one set of files.

    These logs are stored to the following path on the SFTP server: <IP address>\<date time stamp>\active_nnn.tgz , where nnn is the timestamp in long format.

  • Platform Tomcat logs: file get activelog tomcat/logs recurs compress

    These logs are stored to the following path on the SFTP server: <IP address>\<date time stamp>\active_nnn.tgz , where nnn is the timestamp in long format.

  • Install log: file get install install.log

    These logs are stored to the following path on the SFTP server: <IP address>\<date time stamp>\active_nnn.tgz , where nnn is timestamp in long format.


Note

Log collection may fail when you use the compress flag if there are a lot of log files. If collection fails, run the command again without the compress flag.

Call Variables Logging

From Cisco Finesse Release 12.5(1) onwards, the call variables logging in Cisco Finesse logs are disabled by default. The callVariables contain sensitive user information and this property allows the administrator to decide whether the information must be captured in the logs. You can enable the call variables logging by using the CLI commands.

Collect Logs using Cisco Unified Real-Time Monitoring Tool

Cisco Finesse supports the Cisco Unified Real-Time Monitoring Tool (RTMT) for log collection. Use the following procedure to collect logs using Unified RTMT.


Note

Finesse supports RTMT only for log collection. Other RTMT features are not supported.

Before you begin

Download and install RTMT on a client computer from the following URL:

https://FQDN:8443/plugins/CcmServRtmtPlugin.exe

where FQDN is the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the Finesse server.

Procedure

Step 1

Log in to Unified RTMT using Finesse administrator credentials.

Step 2

In the tree hierarchy, select Trace & Log Central.

Step 3

Double-click Collect Files.

The Trace Collection wizard appears.

Step 4

Select the services and Finesse nodes for which you want to collect logs, and complete the wizard.

What to do next

For detailed instructions, see the Cisco Unified Real-Time Monitoring Tool Administration Guide, which is listed here:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/unified-communications/unified-communications-manager-callmanager/products-maintenance-guides-list.html

Syslog Support for Critical Log Messages

Cisco Finesse generates syslogs for critical log messages. Use the following procedure to view the logs using Unified RTMT.

Before you begin

Download and install RTMT on a client computer from the following URL: https://FQDN:8443/plugins/CcmServRtmtPlugin.exe, where FQDN is the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the Finesse server.

Procedure

Step 1

Log in to Unified RTMT using Finesse administrator credentials.

Step 2

In the tree hierarchy, select SysLog Viewer or choose System > Tools > SysLog Viewer > Open SysLog Viewer.

Step 3

From the Select a Node drop-down list, choose the server where the logs that you want to view are stored.

Step 4

Under the Logs tab, select Application Logs > CiscoSyslog to view and save the syslog file.

Tip

 

When you double-click the CiscoSyslog message, the Show Detail dialog displays the syslog definition and recommended actions in an adjacent pane.

For more information, see the Cisco Unified Real-Time Monitoring Tool Administration Guide.

Note

 

System log messages generated by Cisco Finesse are also available under SysLog Viewer > System Logs > messages.

The following are the different types of messages and corresponding descriptions that are captured in the SysLog Viewer > System Logs > messages.

  • CTI_SOCKET_ERROR

    System has encountered an error connecting to the CTI server.

  • CTI_CONNECTION_LOST

    System has lost contact with the CTI server.

  • CTI_OPEN_FAILURE

    CTI Server rejected open request.

  • CTI_CONNECTION_RETRIES_EXCEEDED

    System has failed to connect to the CTI server in the allowed number of retries.

  • CTI_CONNECTION_ESTABLISHED

    System has successfully connected to the CTI server.

  • SUBSYS_INIT_ERROR

    Error initializing subsystem.

  • UNABLE_TO_CONNECT_TO_XMPP_SERVER

    Unable to connect xmpp server.

  • DB_SS_CONNECTION_CHECK

    There was an error connecting to the database.

  • cfservice_CORE_ERROR_DB_CONNECTION

    Unable to connect to the Database.

  • AWDB_NOT_ACCESSIBLE

    Unable to connect to AWDB server.

  • VOS_DB_ADAPTER_ERROR

    There was an error on the VOS DB Adapter operation.

  • FINESSE_APP_STARTUP_ERROR

    Error during Finesse Application Startup.

  • OF_STATE_CHANGED

    OF subsystem state successfully changed.

  • CONNECTED_TO_XMPP_SERVER

    Successfully connected to xmpp server.

  • SSO_API_ERROR

    Error processing REST API Request for SSO.

  • API_ERROR_DETAIL

    Error processing REST API request.

  • DRAPI_HOST_ALERT

    Failover of Digital Routing API host-pair.

    Failover isn’t supported when the Digital Routing API host backup isn’t configured.

  • DRAPIAsyncRestClient

    Failed to create SSL connection to Digital Routing API.

Cisco Finesse Notification Service Logging

Use the following commands to view the status of, enable, or disable Cisco Finesse Notification Service logging:

  • utils finesse notification logging status: This command displays whether Cisco Finesse Notification Service logging is currently enabled or disabled on the system.


    Note

    Ensure the Cisco Finesse Notification Service is running before you run the command to retrieve the status of Cisco Finesse Notification Service logging. If the service is not running, this command fails.

  • utils finesse notification logging enable: This command enables Cisco Finesse Notification Service logging.


    Note

    Ensure that the Cisco Finesse Notification Service is running before you run the command to enable Cisco Finesse Notification Service logging. If the service is not running, this command fails. This command also fails if Cisco Finesse Notification Service logging is already enabled.

    If you enable logging and then restart the Cisco Finesse Notification Service, logging is automatically disabled.

  • utils finesse notification logging disable: This command disables Cisco Finesse Notification Service logging.


    Note

    Ensure that the Cisco Finesse Notification Service is running before you run the command to disable Cisco Finesse Notification Service logging. If the service is not running, this command fails. This command also fails if the Cisco Finesse Notification Service logging is already disabled.

Remote Account Management

Run the following command to enable, disable, create, and check the status of a remote access account:

utils remote_account

A remote account generates a passphrase that allows Cisco support personnel to get access to the system for the specified life of the account.

  • utils remote_account create account life

    account is the account name. life indicates the life of the account in days.

  • utils remote_account disable

  • utils remote_account enable

  • utils remote_account status