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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 phone devices for Extension Mobility


In order for end users to be able to use the Extension Mobility feature, they must first add the IP Phone Service to their device and device profiles. Additionally, we will have to associate said device profile to the end user's account.

Note

This process applies to both Extension Mobility, and Cross Cluster Extension Mobility.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes the Cisco Extension Mobility Service has been activated and the IP Phone Service created.

How to do it...

To configure Extension Mobility, so the end user may use it, perform the following:

First we will configure the device to support Extension Mobility.

  1. Navigate to the device on which we will enable Extension Mobility (Device | Phone).

  2. Under the section Extension Information, check Enable Extension Mobility.

  3. Click on Save.

  4. On the top-right corner, under the Related Links drop-down, select Subscribe/Unsubscribe Services:

  5. Click on Go.

  6. Select the appropriate IP Phone Service from the Select a Service...