Avaya CMS Rel 17 Linux base installation & Maintenance Interview Questions

Avaya CMS Rel  17  Linux  base installation & Maintenance Interview Questions

Question
What is diffrence between HA CMS and Survivable CMS ?
 
Answer
HA system has two CMS servers communicate with Active CM & both having the similar data. However survivable option communicate/link with active and survivable(ESS)core to provide reliability.
 
Question
What diffrent types of backup are supported on CMS R17.
 
Answer
DAT tape backup and network backup supported.
 
Question
 
Can we have virtualize environment?
Answer
yes we can for mid size and large size configuration.
 
Question
Please explain about the licensing ?
Answer
licensing we need to get activated from Avaya .
 
Question
Brief Rel 17 HArdware specifications?
 
Answer
As per the category of small, mid and large capacity below hardware are supported. Dell R720,R620,Netra and sun T5120
 
Question
Can you please give us a brief of CMS R17.
Answer
CMS is a Call centre data reporting tool. its facilitate a realtime and historical reporting. previously it uses solaris OS on SUN servers but from R17 onwards started supporting on Linux & virtualized environment. CMS received data from CM with configuring the MIS link with procr or CLAN.
 
Question
Does this version supports netbackup facility for the customer
Answer
yes
 
Question
How many days a hystorical data will be available & what is the backup / storage frequency of live data ?
 
Answer
 
As per the server size and customer requirement you can define in initial configuration. Backup is also customizable ideally daily backup is prefer to avoid the data loss.
 
Question
No of MIS link does the CMS R17 supports…
Answer
8 links supported.
 
Question
What are the new features in CMS R17 ?
Answer
New features are like VMware supported and Linux OS are two new things added.you can also connect on web based login and scalability enhanced.
 
Question
What is the new feature added in CMS R17?
 
Answer
New features are like VMware supported and Linux OS are two new things added.you can also connect on web based login and scalability enhanced.
 
Question
 
What are backup which needs to be taken on daily basis or also when upgrading from lower release to R17.
Answer
Full maintenance backup and admin backup.
 
Question
Which all Avaya CM Version are supported with CMS R17.
Answer
Only CM 5.x and above are supported by Avaya.
 
Question
What is the OS compatibility w.r.t. server & what is the OS compatibility w.r.t. CMS Supervisor Web client
 
Answer
 
Soaris and Linux OS supported. for web client win7 and above.
 
Question
Which Vmvare software supported Rel 17?
Answer
we need to download OVA template from Avaya site as it is Avaya customized.
 
Question
What type of RAID is supported on T5120 server and number of hard disks?
Answer
Raid 5 supported with 4 hard disks.
 
Question
Can I migrate CMS R16 and earlier to CMS R17 Linux?
Answer
you can but need to check the existing hardware and software compatibility.
 
Question
CMS R17: Is there a way to extend the amount of time a user stays into CMS Supervisor before they are automatically logged out?
 
Answer
Yes, Avaya Professional Services has an offer that will limit the logins to 1 per User.
 
Question
If I have to upgrade from Lower version SUN- CMS to R7 Linux CMS..is it supported and if yes whether I need to again purchase Licenses?
Answer
you need to buy upgrade licenses to go on higher release from any lower release.
 
Question
Does CMS R17 support SNMP alarms? Any Avaya document describing the implementation procedures?
Answer
 
yes it is supported the steps are given in “Avaya call managment system software installation, maintenance and troubleshooting for Linux” document.
 
Question
What is the basic memory requirement for R17 CMS?
Answer
Minimum 8GB required.
 
Question
Can a CMS HA/Secondary server be placed at a different geographic location than the Primary CMS server.
Answer
Yes, the Primary CMS can be at one location and the Secondary / HA CMS at another geographical location.
 
Question
How many types of upgrades available w.r.t hardware?
 
Answer
There are three upgrade available. 1) Low end i.e. R17 Dell R620 2) Mid size i.e. R17 Dell R720 3) High End i.e. R17 R2 Dell 720
 
Question
Is CMS supported with Radius Server.
Answer
CMS is not tested / supported with Radius.
 
Question
What is the resourece usage in virtual environment for CMS?
 
Answer
CPU Consumed 2 GHz 8 GHz Memory Consumed 2 GB 4 GB Network Consumed 64 KBps 212 KBps
 
Question
 
Vmvare version supported CMS Rel 17 VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 VMware vCenter Server 5.0 VMware vCenter Server 5.1
Answer
yes