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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

Implementing unicast Music On Hold


Music On Hold can be of two types, unicast or multicast. Unicast Music On Hold offers a quick and easy way to get Music On Hold up and running quickly, but at a cost of bandwidth.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes all the necessary media resource groups and media resource group lists have been created.

How to do it...

To configure unicast Music On Hold, perform the following:

  1. First, find the system created Music On Hold device and verify that it is registered. (Media Resources | Music On Hold Server).

    Note

    If the Music On Hold server doesn't show as registered, then the Cisco IP Voice Media Streaming App has not been enabled.

  2. Next, configure the appropriate Device Pool for the Music On Hold Server.

  3. If necessary, specify a Location.

  4. If required, change the Maximum Half Duplex Streams and Maximum Multi-Cast Connections:

  5. Click on Save.

  6. Next, add the Music On Hold server to the appropriate media resource groups (Media Resources | Media Resource Group).

  7. With the media resource...