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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

Exporting data


There are many reasons why one might want to export data from the Unified Communications Manager database, perhaps to fix data before re-importing it, or to perform inventory. Whatever the reason, the export feature can provide us with a wealth of information about the configuration of the system.

How to do it...

To export data from the database, perform the following:

  1. Navigate to the export page (Bulk Administration | Import/Export | Export):

  2. Specify a Tar File Name:

  3. We then check the boxes for each item we wish to have exported.

  4. Verify dependencies by clicking on Check Dependency.

  5. Click on Submit.

  6. After the job finishes, navigate to the upload/download page (Bulk Administration | Upload/Download Files).

  7. Locate the file, check the box next to the filename:

  8. Click on Download Selected.

How it works...

By selecting the items we wish to export and then verifying the dependencies, the Bulk Administration Tool will prepare a tar file with CSV files for each item selected. Untarring (separating...