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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 digest authentication


Digest authentication causes the Unified Communications Manager to challenge all request messages for phones that are running SIP.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes the phone security profile has already been created for SIP devices with Enable Digest Authentication checked.

How to do it...

To configure digest authentication for an end user and device, perform the following:

  1. Navigate to the end user configuration page for the appropriate end user (User Management | End User).

  2. Under the User Information section, specify the Digest Credentials.

  3. Enter the credential again in the Confirm Digestion Credentials field:

  4. Click on Save.

  5. Next, we configure the digest information for the SIP phone device.

  6. Navigate to the phone configuration page (Device | Phone).

  7. Under the Protocol Specific Information section, select a security profile that uses digest authentication under the Device Security Profile drop-down:

  8. From the Digest User drop-down, select the end user that was configured...