Cisco CallManager Serviceability System Guide, Release 4.0(1)
Service Activation

Table Of Contents

Service Activation

Understanding Service Activation

Service Installation

View Status of Services

Deleting Services

Where to Find More Information


Service Activation


This chapter provides general and procedural information on the Serviceability Service Activation tool.

This chapter contains the following topics:

Understanding Service Activation

Service Installation

Deleting Services

Where to Find More Information

Understanding Service Activation

Cisco CallManager Serviceability provides a web-based Service Activation tool that is used to activate or deactivate multiple services and to select default services to activate.

Activate or deactivate services in the Service Activation web pages by checking the check boxes beside the service names and clicking the Update button.

The Service Activation tool activates services in automatic mode. It also checks for service dependencies based on single-server configuration. When you click the Set Default button, the Service Activation tool chooses those services that are required to run Cisco CallManager based on a single-server configuration. For example, if you choose one service, you will be prompted whether you want to select all the other services that depend on that service to run Cisco CallManager based on a single-server configuration, if any. If you have a multi-server cluster configuration, please refer to "Service Activation" in the Cisco CallManager Serviceability Administration Guide for service considerations.


Caution Only activate/deactivate services from the Service Activation pages. If you activate/deactivate services from the Windows Service Control Manager instead of from Service Activation, entries are not added/removed from the database table; therefore services will not be properly configured and will be out of sync with the Cisco CallManager database.


Note You can get to the Control Center web pages from a link on the Service Activation pages. Use the Control Center tool to start and stop services, one service at a time. Refer to "Control Center" for more information about Control Center.


Figure 5-1 shows a services activation status example for a particular server.

Figure 5-1 Activation Status of Services Using Service Activation

Service Installation

If you are installing Cisco CallManager for the first time, all services required to run Cisco CallManager are automatically installed; however, none of the services are activated at the completion of the installation (except for the Cisco Database Layer Monitor service). You must activate the services you want, including the Cisco CallManager service, from Service Activation in Cisco CallManager Serviceability. Activating a service does not start it. You can start/stop services from the Control Center. See "Control Center" section.


Note If you are upgrading Cisco CallManager, those services that were already started on your system will be started after the upgrade.


View Status of Services

Use the Control Center tool to view the activation status of Cisco CallManager services for a particular server in a cluster. Control Center displays activation status for both NT services, as well as the Cisco Tomcat Web service Cisco IP Manager Assistant (IPMA).

Deleting Services

When you activate services for a server, database entries are made for each of the activated services. When a server gets permanently removed from a Cisco CallManager cluster, the database entries for the services already activated in that particular server still exist, and continue to show up in the list of servers in the Cisco CallManager Serviceability and administration web pages. You must use the Delete Services utility to permanently remove the database entries. The link for the Delete Services utility web page can be found in the Service Activation web pages, but will only appear if you choose a server that has been permanently removed from the Cisco CallManager cluster. Refer to "Service Activation" in the Cisco CallManager Administration Guide for more information about how to use this utility.

Where to Find More Information

Related Topics

"Cisco CallManager Services"

"Control Center"

"Service Activation", Cisco CallManager Serviceability Administration Guide

Additional Cisco Documentation

Troubleshooting Guide for Cisco CallManager