Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
Hank Nussbacher wrote: At 22:54 20/09/2009 -0400, Jeff Kell wrote: Front-line TAC has gotten incomprehensibly bad. The most recent case came back with info request (this is a direct quote): To help isolate the issue, *please answer the following questions * **1. When did you noticed this

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday 21 September 2009 12:58:05 pm Justin M. Streiner wrote: I've run into this in the past with different vendors, even on occasions when the most frequently needed information (show tech, request tech-support, etc...) is attached to the support case before it gets assigned to an

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-21 Thread Alan Buxey
hi, the webex option is worrying when you have a core failure (and therefore network is unknown useable status) I think a large swathe of support is going the webex route where they get you to log in and then they poke around your system using predetermined flow chart of things to check (i've

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-21 Thread kevin gannon
There is always a Duty Manager available to escalate faults. They are non technical but there job is get you the support you need in critical situations. In the 10 years I have been dealing daily with the TAC I have spoken to them may 5 times and each time they have done the business. Regards

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-21 Thread Steven Fischer
as an aside, the TAC engineer (Indian engineer #4) stuck with it, and has found the bug that was causing the meltdown. Credit certainly needs to be given for that. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Alan Buxey a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: hi, the webex option is worrying when you have a core

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me onthis?

2009-09-21 Thread asaudale
Powered by Telkomsel BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: Steve Fischer sfischer1...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:41:08 To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this? Last Thursday evening, at around

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday 21 September 2009 09:31:48 pm Steven Fischer wrote: as an aside, the TAC engineer (Indian engineer #4) stuck with it, and has found the bug that was causing the meltdown. Credit certainly needs to be given for that. Good stuff. Grateful if you could kindly share any technical

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-21 Thread Steven Fischer
the specific bug that caused my issue is *CSCta02715* Now, I find it scary that a command element related to logging could take down an array of 6500's. Furthermore, we had been running the SXH5 code with the logging count command element enabled on two of the four core switches for 30 days (the

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-21 Thread Lee
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM, William McCall william.mcc...@gmail.comwrote: I would advise you to make sure to fill out the eval among other things. This is a situation where I'd put all 1's. Make sure to put in the comments too. I've been told the bingo scores apply only to the TAC

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday 21 September 2009 10:45:43 pm Steven Fischer wrote: the specific bug that caused my issue is *CSCta02715* Many thanks, and best of luck moving forward. Cheers, Mark. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-20 Thread Steve Fischer
Last Thursday evening, at around midnight, in the course of my organizations network maintenance, we had not one but two of our core 6500 switches go into ROMMON (after being rebooted with new code, and being operational for approximately 45 minutes)at the same time and for no apparent reason.

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-20 Thread William McCall
I would advise you to make sure to fill out the eval among other things. This is a situation where I'd put all 1's. Make sure to put in the comments too. Those evals (known as BINGOs internally) are a big deal and may help you with getting some motion. Of course, follow up with your AM and see

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-20 Thread Jeff Kell
Front-line TAC has gotten incomprehensibly bad. The most recent case came back with info request (this is a direct quote): To help isolate the issue, *please answer the following questions * **1. When did you noticed this issue? 2. Did you perform any IOS upgrade recently? 3. If yes, when

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-20 Thread Childs, Aaron
@puck.nether.net Subject: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this? Last Thursday evening, at around midnight, in the course of my organizations network maintenance, we had not one but two of our core 6500 switches go into ROMMON (after being rebooted with new code

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me onthis?

2009-09-20 Thread Steve Fischer
: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me onthis? I have had the same problem. Basically TAC follows the sun. If you had waited a few hours you would have had an Irish tech. It is a problem and not just with Cisco Richard Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-20 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Jeff Kell wrote: Front-line TAC has gotten incomprehensibly bad. The most recent case came back with info request (this is a direct quote): I've run into this in the past with different vendors, even on occasions when the most frequently needed information (show tech,

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-20 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 22:54 20/09/2009 -0400, Jeff Kell wrote: Front-line TAC has gotten incomprehensibly bad. The most recent case came back with info request (this is a direct quote): To help isolate the issue, *please answer the following questions * **1. When did you noticed this issue? 2. Did you

Re: [c-nsp] Cisco TAC issues - can someone from Cisco enlighten me on this?

2009-09-20 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 17:41 20/09/2009 -0400, Steve Fischer wrote: I am interested in any and all feedback from the community on this. If there is someone within Cisco (other than my salesperson, who's heard this before from me.on more than one occasion) who I can send this to, and can respond to it, it would