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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 traces


Traces provide valuable insight into specific feature sets of services. Traces are often useful to Cisco TAC and to developers.

How to do it...

To configure traces, perform the following:

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

  2. Next, navigate to the trace configuration page (Trace | Configuration).

  3. Select the server from the Server drop-down and click on Go.

  4. Select the desired Service Group from the drop-down and click on Go.

  5. Finally select the desired Service from the drop-down and click on Go:

  6. To enable the trace, check Trace On:

  7. Under the Trace Filter Settings, specify the desired Debug Trace Level from the drop-down.

  8. Depending on the trace we are configuring, there will be multiple options that can be enabled; we must check the boxes next to each feature from which trace information is to be collected. In the following screenshot, the trace settings are configured for debugging conference resources on an SIP gateway:

  9. Click on Save.

How it...