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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 device mobility


Device mobility allows the Unified Communications Manager to determine when a phone device is roaming outside its home location, allowing the device to make certain configuration changes to mitigate call routing issues.

There are two ways of enabling device mobility. We will take a look at them in detail.

How to do it...

A service parameter can be used to enable device mobility server wide. This may be achieved by performing the following:

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

  2. Select the appropriate server from the Server drop-down.

  3. Select the Cisco CallManager as the Service.

  4. Scroll down to the section titled Clusterwide Parameters (Device – Phone).

  5. From the Device Mobility Mode drop-down select On:

  6. Click on Save.

Device mobility can be enabled on a per device basis via the phones configuration page; this is achieved by performing the following:

  1. First navigate to the phone configuration page (Device | Phone).

  2. Locate the device on which...