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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

Configuring default credential policies


Credential policies specify the defaults for passwords and PINs used by both end users and application users.

Getting ready

Although not necessary, if we are going to apply custom policy rules to the default policies, we will need to create them first as described in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

To configure the default PIN and Password for end users, perform the following:

  1. First navigate to the Credential Policy Default page (User Management | Credential Policy Default).

  2. There are three options to choose from. We will start with the first, that is, the password for end users.

  3. Click on the appropriate link.

  4. If desired, change the default password by entering the password into the Change Credential field, and once again in the Confirm Credentials field.

  5. Specify the Credential Policy. The previous recipe describes creating and configuring the credential policies.

  6. Select the desired options for this policy. A brief description of each field is provided...