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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 SNMP versions 1 and 2


By configuring SNMP on the Unified Communications Manager, we can configure where we will receive notifications of alarms and other events. This recipe covers the configuration of SNMP servers prior to Version 3 of the protocol.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes the SNMP server information is already known and available.

How to do it...

To configure SNMP (versions 1 and 2), perform the following:

  1. First navigate to the Unified Serviceability page (https://cucm/ccmservice).

  2. Navigate to the community string configuration page (SNMP | V1/V2c | Community String).

  3. Click on Find.

  4. Click on Add New.

  5. Specify the Community String Name:

  6. To allow SNMP from any host, select Accept SNMP Packets from any host. Skip to step 12.

  7. Otherwise, select Accept SNMP Packets only from these hosts.

  8. Specify the IP address in the Host IP Address field:

  9. Click on Insert.

  10. Verify that the SNMP server appears in the Host IP Addresses list:

  11. Optionally, to remove a server from the list, select the desired...