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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

Assigning credential policies


Now that the credential policies are set up and in place, we can assign them to end users and application users, individually. Remember that whatever credential policy is assigned, the default will be applied as users are imported or created!

Getting ready

This recipe assumes the credential policies have been created as defined in the previous recipes.

How to do it...

The procedure for assigning the credential policy is the same for both application users and end users. To assign a credential policy to a user, perform the following:

  1. First, navigate to the end user or application user's configuration page (User Management | End User or User Management | Application User).

  2. Find the user we will be modifying.

  3. At the user's page we are presented with two Edit Credential buttons next to the Password and PIN fields. Click on the button appropriate to the field we are applying the credential rules to:

  4. Now select the boxes that will apply to this user; a brief description of...