Cisco

Cisco Proximity – Laptop not connection “Searching for Video Systems …”

Across our whole range of HP Elitebook we have seen the problem where the Cisco proximity client will not connect to an endpoint (MX800’s in our case). Proximity is enabled and they are running CE8.1. The client will return “Proximity: Searching for video systems …”. The Troubleshooting Guide – Cisco Proximity offers a couple of suggestions but non of these solved the problem.

After some research and testing the follow is solving the problem (Windows 7) on the range of HP Laptops deployed.

Open Control Panel\Hardware and Sound and click on Sound. Click on the Recording Tab and select the Internal Mic. Then click on Properties.

Select the Effects Tabs and check the Disable System Effects, which is not selected by default. Click OK on all open settings panes. In order for this setting to take effect the Cisco Proximity client needs to be restarted. Once restarted you should see “Proximity: Connected to xxx  …”. Although this was only verified on HP EliteBooks it might work for other too.

Cisco ISO 15.x – Warning: The cli will be deprecated soon

While setting up authentication on a new Cisco 2960G-X switch I kept getting the following warning when booting up.

Warning: The cli will be deprecated soon
'tacacs-server host 10.60.21.114 timeout 5'
Please move to 'tacacs server <name>' CLI

Press RETURN to get started!

After some research it turn out the switch was running IOS 15.02 and the syntax has changed. The following steps will remove the warning and apply the correct syntax going forward.

Switch#conf t
Switch(config)#no tacacs-server host x.x.x.x timeout 5
Switch(config)#no tacacs-server key 7 047B08055C2D401D070D
Switch(config)#Radius Server TACAS-SERVER
Switch(config-radius-server)#address ipv4 x.x.x.x
Switch(config-radius-server)#key 7 047B08055C2D401D070D
Switch(config-radius-server)#exit
Switch(config)#exit
Switch5#

The config will look like this:

!
radius server TACAS-SERVER
address ipv4 x.x.x.x auth-port 1645 acct-port 1646
key 7 047B08055C2D401D070D
!

It might we worthwhile verifying that you have …

aaa new-model

… in your configuration as well.