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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 the Extension Mobility service


Extension Mobility is a feature that allows users to roam between phones, all the while taking their number and specific device settings (such as speed dials and services) with them.

How to do it...

To enable the Extension Mobility service, perform the following:

  1. First navigate to the Serviceability page. (https://cucm/ccmservice).

  2. Navigate to the Service Activation page (Tools | Service Activation).

  3. Under the CM Services section, check the box next to Cisco Extension Mobility:

  4. Click on Save.

  5. Next, navigate to the Control Center—Feature Services (Tools | Control Center—Feature Services).

  6. Under the CM Services section, ensure that the Cisco Extension Mobility service is started. If it is not, select the radio button next to the service and click on Start.

How it works...

The Cisco Extension Mobility service must first be active before end users can use the extension mobility feature.