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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

Implementing mobility access lists


As the name may imply, mobility access lists allow us to filter which calls are allowed to be presented to a user configured for mobility.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes previous mobility related configuration has been completed.

How to do it...

To create a new mobility access list, perform the following:

  1. First navigate to the access list configuration page (Call Routing | Class of Control | Access List).

  2. Click on Add New to add a new access list.

  3. Specify a Name.

  4. Specify a Description if desired.

  5. Specify the Owner. These rules will apply to the selected user only.

  6. Specify Allowed or Blocked as appropriate:

  7. Click on Save.

  8. After the page refreshes, we are presented with the option to add filters.

  9. Click on Add Member.

  10. Select a Filter Mask from the drop-down menu.

  11. If necessary, specify a DN Mask:

  12. Click on Save.

Repeat this process for each required filter.

How it works...

As a call destined for a mobility configured user hits the system, Unified Communications Manager will...