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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

Adding a custom ringtone


The Unified Communications Manager includes quite a few ringtones by default, but sometimes we want to add something with a more personal touch. To do this, we can add custom ringtones.

Getting ready

First, make sure you have a ringtone that conforms to the following:

  • Raw PCM (headerless)

  • 8000 samples per second

  • 8 bits per sample

  • uLaw compression

  • Maximum ring size should be 16080 samples

  • Minimum ring size should be 240 samples

Note

The number of samples in the ring must be evenly divisible by 240.

How to do it...

To add a custom ringtone, perform the following for each UCM in the cluster:

  1. First we must get the existing Ringlist.xml file. This file contains the listing of ringtones.

  2. Using your favorite TFTP application, download the Ringlist.xml file from the UCM.

  3. Modify the Ringlist.xml file by adding the appropriate fields. In this example we use the custom1.raw file, and give the name My Custom Ringtone:

  4. After the Ringlist.xml file has been modified, we need to upload it and...