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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 Malicious Call Identification


Malicious Call Identification works by setting a specific flag in the CDR records. These flagged calls can be reported on, attaining whatever information is necessary to take action.

How to do it...

To enable and configure Malicious Call Identification, perform the following:

  1. First navigate to the Service Parameters configuration page (System | Service Parameters).

  2. Select the Server.

  3. Select the Cisco CallManager Service.

  4. Under the System section (near the top), select True for CDR Enabled Flag:

  5. Click on Save.

  6. Next navigate to the Serviceability page by clicking on Cisco Unified Serviceability from the Navigation drop-down:

  7. Click on Go.

  8. Navigate to the Alarm configuration page (Alarm | Configuration).

  9. Select the Server.

  10. From the Service Group drop-down select CM Services:

  11. From the Service drop-down, select Cisco CallManager.

  12. Click on Go.

  13. Check Enable Alarm under the Local Syslog section.

  14. Under the same section, select Informational from the Alarm Event Level drop...