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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

Creating and using a custom file


In general, when performing updates using the Custom File format, we can typically get away with the MAC ADDRESS or DEVICE NAME field. The file might look something like:

MAC ADDRESS
SEP001BD4546BB0
SEP00215554F98F

How to do it...

To upload the custom update file to Unified Communications Manager, navigate to Bulk Administration | Upload/Download Files.

  1. Click on Add New to upload a new file.

  2. Specify the File we previously created.

  3. From the Select The Target drop-down, select Phones.

  4. From the Select Transaction Type drop-down, select Update Phones – Custom File:

  5. Click on Save.

  6. Navigate to the Update Phone | Custom File page under Bulk Administration | Phones.

  7. From the Custom File drop-down, select the file we just uploaded and click on Find.

  8. Click on Next.

  9. Under the section Logout/Reset/Restart, select Apply Config.

  10. Under the Device Information section, check the boxes next to:

    • Media Resource Group List

    • User Hold MOH Audio Source

    • Network Hold MOH Audio Source

    Select...