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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

Enabling the Bulk Provisioning Service


If we have more than a few devices we need to apply a media resource group list to, we can use the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT).

The Bulk Administration Tool provides us with two options for applying bulk changes, namely, the option to query or use a custom file.

How to do it...

Before we can use the BAT tool, we must first ensure the service is active:

  1. Navigate to Cisco Unified Serviceability (https://192.168.1.5/ccmservice).

  2. After logging in, go to Service Activation (Tools | Service Activation).

  3. Under Database and Admin Services, check the box next to Cisco Bulk Provisioning Service.

  4. Click on Save.

  5. After the page reloads, verify if the service started successfully by navigating to Tools | Control Center – Feature Services.

  6. The service is located under the section titled Database and Admin Services:

Once we have verified the Bulk Provisioning Service, we can continue to bulk provision endpoints, users, and so on.

How it works...

The Bulk Provisioning Service...