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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 Intelligent Session Control


Intelligent Session Control anchors the call so that when DTMF commands are received, the Unified Communications Manager may perform call control functions such as hold, transfer, and so on.

How to do it...

To enable Intelligent Session Control features, 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 Cisco CallManager as the Service.

  4. Scroll down to the section titled Clusterwide Parameters (Feature -- Reroute Remote Destination Calls to Enterprise Number).

  5. Change Reroute Remote Destination Calls to Enterprise Number to True:

  6. Go to the section titled Clusterwide Parameters (System - Mobility).

  7. Change Matching Caller ID with Remote Destination to Partial Match.

  8. Change Number of Digits for Caller ID Partial Match as necessary:

  9. Click on Save.

How it works...

By setting Matching Caller ID with Remote Destination to Partial Match, we inform the UCM how...