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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 credential policies


By default, there is already a credential policy used by UCM. This should not be confused with the Default Credential Policies covered in the next recipe.

Credential policies allow us to specify granular settings such as lockout duration and number of failed login attempts.

How to do it...

To configure a credential policy, perform the following:

  1. First navigate to the Credential Policy configuration page (User Management | Credential Policy).

  2. Click on Add New to create a new credential policy.

  3. Specify the Display Name.

  4. Change any of the following fields as desired or required by corporate policies:

    • Failed Logon

    • Reset Failed Logon Attempts Every (minutes)

    • Lockout Duration (minutes)

    • Minimum Duration Between Credential Changes

    • Credential Expires After (days)

    • Minimum Credential Length

    • Stored Number of Previous Credentials

    • Inactive Days Allowed

    • Expiry Warning Days

  5. Additionally, check any of the following boxes that apply:

    • No Limit for Failed Logons

    • Administrator...