Archive for March, 2010

Envox Syntellect Down due to NIC Error

Friday, March 26th, 2010

At approximately 4 o’clock morning the NIC died resulting in a service outage. The Envox server itself was up and running. Our hosting crew fixed the NIC problem by activating the secondary NIC. Unfortunately the Dialogic HMP license file is bound to the MAC address of the NIC.

Changing the Dialogic license file permanently is not free of charge, even though we are no longer able to use the “old” licenses any more. Fortunately the guys at Bressner, our local support partner for Envox/Syntellect, offered to fix the license issue free of charge.

After creating the license file, uploading and activating it, the SCP started without any problems and the servicelines were available once again. We had an outage of approx. 12 hours due to this issue.

Once again, thanks to the guys at Bressner for their non-bureaucratic help in this matter.

HMP Error occurred once again

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

The notorious HMP error occurred again.

We restarted the service immediately after receiving the error message via the Syntellect Alarm Center. It’s now up and running.

Wireshark Logging, which is supposed to support us in identifying the HMP error, is problematic as it constantly runs out of memory, even though the machine is sufficiently equipped with ROM and RAM. Alternatives to Wireshark are welcome.

Envox-Syntellect again total outage because of HMP failure

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Thursday at aprox 10 pm in the night the HMP module lost connectivity to the sip registrar. Consequently the system rejected all calls.  Due to a mail sending problem and no reaction of the envox support (who received the error mail) the platform was off line for several hours again. This is a known bug which seems not to be resolvable.

We sent detailed logs to Envox support again for analyses.

Envox Syntellect green light for configuration

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Although we got confusing answers regarding the problematic deployment of MRCP for a onboard resource everything seems to be ok.

MRCP:  -  we are not driving a MRCP-resource – we do not operate any onboard or off-board resource like TTS or ASR. Hopefully the system support was on the appropriate server (??)

Envox Syntellect support investigates the system setup

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

To get a better idea about potential problem sources Envox support is analyzing the platform environment.

Envox Syntellect finding about last crash

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

… 3 unexpected and never seen errors were recorded (DOS
error during gc_Close call to close Dialogic resources), and at the 4th call
the resource engine completely hanged, and was finally killed by the Server.

These errors should not occur and we have never seen them before.

Envox Syntellect outage resolved after 10 hours

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

After 10 hours of analyzing the error logs Envox support successfully restarted the engine and we are back on air again.

Envox Syntellect total outage because of fax enabling

Friday, March 5th, 2010

SCP7.2 error while T.38 Scripts is loaded –> total crash

Following the guidance we activated the Tone Description File and deactivated it.

Now the system is crashed and no call can be handled at all. Syntellect support is analyzing the problem while the system is anavailable …

very very bad