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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 geolocations and filters


Geolocations and filters are generally necessary only when there is a legal requirement to prevent features such as Tail End Hop Off (TEHO).

Getting ready

This recipe assumes the device pools, devices, trunks, and so on have already been configured and exist in the system.

How to do it...

To configure geolocations and filters, perform the following:

  1. Navigate to the Geolocation Configuration page (System | Geolocation Configuration).

  2. Click on Add New.

  3. Specify a Name.

  4. Specify any additional desired details:

  5. Click on Save.

Repeat steps 2 to 5 for each location as desired.

If desired, to configure a geolocation filter, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Geolocation Filter Configuration page (System | Geolocation Filter).

  2. Click Add New.

  3. Specify a Name.

  4. Check the box appropriate to the criteria by which you wish to filter:

  5. Click on Save.

Repeat steps 2 to 5 for each filter as desired.

Finally, apply the geolocation and filters to the appropriate devices, device pool...