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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 mid-call feature access codes


Mid-call features allow you to hold, transfer, and conference calls by using DTMF digit codes entered on the phone. In this recipe, we will show how to customize those codes and briefly explain how to use them.

Getting ready

If we are not going to use the predefined codes, it is helpful to have these documented and provided as part of end user training material.

How to do it...

To customize the DTMF mid-call feature codes, perform 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 near the bottom to the section titled Clusterwide Parameters (System – Mobility).

  5. Change the Enterprise Feature Access Codes as desired:

  6. Click on Save.

Note

Feature Access Codes must be unique numbers.

How it works...

The mid-call features are invoked on the remote end by entering the DTMF patterns as specified in the service parameters...