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Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook

By : Tanner Ezell
Book Image

Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook

By: Tanner Ezell

Overview of this book

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) is a software-based call-processing system developed by Cisco Systems. CUCM tracks all active VoIP network components; these include phones, gateways, conference bridges, transcoding resources, and voicemail boxes among others. This scalable, distributable, highly-available enterprise-class system delivers voice, video, mobility, and presence services. It connects up to 30,000 users of IP phones, media processing devices, VoIP gateways, mobile devices, and multimedia applications. With this cookbook you will learn all the important aspects of administering Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook is filled with many advanced recipes to effectively and efficiently configure and manage Cisco Unified Communications Manager. This book covers everything an administrator needs during and after Cisco Unified Communications Manager implementation. This practical cookbook contains detailed step-by-step instructions with clear and informative screenshots that cover all the important and advanced aspects of administering Cisco Unified Communications Manager. The book starts with introducing Call Routing and E.164. It then covers configuration and design information for the various call admission control technologies and Media Resources. The book also dives deep into troubleshooting, upgrades, disaster recovery, user management and much more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Bulk provisioning gateways


Configuring analog voice gateways with multiple analog ports by hand can be extremely tedious. Use the BAT tool to make this process easier.

How to do it...

The bulk provisioning of gateways works very similarly to the provisioning of devices.

  1. Create a gateway template (Bulk Provisioning | Gateways | Gateway Template). Configure the gateway template just as you would a gateway device by specifying the type, modules and sub modules. Protocol is important here as it will affect the CSV fields.

  2. Create a CSV File with the desired information with which to create the profiles, and upload it using the Gateways, Insert Gateways setting:

  3. After the file is uploaded, it will be available under the Insert UDP submenu (Bulk Administration | User Device Profiles | Insert UDP). It can be selected with the UDP template to create the users in the system:

For SCCP gateways, the following fields are generally used:

  • DOMAIN NAME

  • DESCRIPTION

  • SLOT

  • SUBUNIT

  • PORT NUMBER

  • PORT DESCRIPTION...