Duration:

5 Days

Course Description:

Advanced Administration for Unified Communications Manager and Features (AAUCMF) is a 5-day instructor led course that is intended for experienced unified communications administrators who need in-depth knowledge of Cisco Unified Communications Manager advanced features, services, and troubleshooting. This course is intended to be a follow-on course to ACUCM+AUC, and combines elements from off-the-shelf courses CVOICE, ICOMM, CIPT 2 and TVOICE.

After a short review of Unified Communication architecture and basic administration, the course begins with a discussion of new and changed features from previous versions of CUCM. It then moves into implementation of a multi-site dial plan architecture including signaling, call routing for multiple sites with overlapping directory numbers, digit manipulation, automated alternate routing, PSTN backup- and TEHO implementation. Next, call admission control, hardware media resource implementation, and inter-cluster communications are addressed. Students will spend time implementing extension mobility, unified mobility (including single-number reach) and device mobility. The CUCM portion of the class concludes with a module on tools, tips and tricks for the Bulk Administration Tool and a lesson on reading CUCM trace files for troubleshooting.

Audience:

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

  • Experience Unified Communications Engineers
  • Anyone who has attended ACUCM+AUC and needs more training on advanced features and troubleshooting

Prerequisites:

To fully benefit from this course, students should have the following prerequisite skills and knowledge:

  • CCNA Voice or equivalent knowledge, or
  • ACUCM+AUC and additional field experience

Training Objectives:

At Course Completion you will be able to:

  • Describe CUCM signaling to phones, gateways, and media resources (H.323, SIP, SCCP)
  • Configure inbound and outbound call routing in a multisite environment with overlapping DNs
  • Configure intersite dialing with PSTN backup using Local Route Groups
  • Use class of control to control inbound call flow and permit blocking of inbound calls
  • Implement Survivable Remote Site Telephony for both SCCP and SIP devices
  • Implement intersite and intercluster Call Admission Control and intersite Automated Alternate Routing
  • Implement DSP hardware media resources
  • Implement Tail-End Hopoff (TEHO)
  • Configure Extension Mobility, Unified Mobility (Single Number Reach and Mobile Voice Access), and Device Mobility
  • Use CUCM Tools such as the Real Time Monitoring Tool to Monitor and perform basic Troubleshooting
  • Deploy new CUCM 10.x Features such as Native Call Queuing, Intercluster CAC and Deterministic Codec Selection
  • Generate and Read Trace Files for SCCP, SIP and H.323 Call Setup and Resource Allocation

Module 1: Review of CUCM and Overview of New Features

Module 2: Understanding End-User Implementation Options

  • Lesson 1: Implementing End Users in CUCM Including LDAP Integration
  • Lesson 2: Review of Cisco IP Phones and SCCP and SIP Signaling
  • Lesson 3: Universal Device and Line Templates and Feature Group Templates

Module 3: Dial Plan Architecture

  • Lesson 1: H.323 and SIP Protocols and Signaling
  • Lesson 2: Local Route Groups
  • Lesson 3: Inbound Calls Routing in a Multisite Environment
  • Lesson 4: Implementing Survivable Remote Site Telephony
  • Lesson 5: Implementing Cisco Unified SCCP SRST
  • Lesson 6: Implementing SIP SRST
  • Lesson 7: Implementing Communications Manager Express in SRST Mode

Module 4: Intersite and Intercluster Calling Architecture and Features

  • Lesson 1: Locations-Based Call Admission Control and AAR
  • Lesson 2: Media Resource Implementation (DSPs)
  • Lesson 3: Native Call Queuing
  • Lesson 4: Configuring Intercluster Enhanced Locations Call Admission Control
  • Lesson 5: Configuring Tail End Hop Off

Module 5: Implementation of Features and Applications for Multisite Deployments

  • Lesson 1: Implementing Cisco Extension Mobility
  • Lesson 2: Configuring Cisco Unified Mobility
  • Lesson 3: Implementing Device Mobility

Module 6: Tools & Troubleshooting

  • Lesson 1: BAT Tips and Tricks
  • Lesson 2: Planning Firmware Upgrades
  • Lesson 3: Reading Common Voice IOS Debug Output
  • Lesson 4: Reading RTMT Trace Files

Labs:

  • Lab 2-0: Preparing the Lab Environment
  • Lab 2-1: Configuring LDAP Integration
  • Lab 2-2: Implementing Site-Specific Device Pools
  • Lab 2-3: Building SCCP Phones using the Self-Provisioning IVR
  • Lab 2-4: Building SIP Phones
  • Lab 3-1: Implementing Basic Multisite Connections
  • Lab 3-2: Building Line/Device Class of Service
  • Lab 3-3: Implementing Call Routing in a Multisite Environment
  • Lab 3-4: Configuring Inbound Calling in a Multisite Environment
  • Lab 3-5: Implementing SCCP and SIP SRST
  • Lab 4-1: Implementing CAC and AAR
  • Lab 4-2: Implementing Media Resources
  • Lab 4-3: Configuring Hunting with Native Call Queuing
  • Lab 4-4: Configure Intercluster Dialing over a SIP Intercluster Trunk
  • Lab 4-5: Configure Intercluster Locations-Based Call Admission Control
  • Lab 4-6: Implementing Tail-End Hopoff (TEHO)
  • Lab 5-1: Configure Extension Mobility
  • Lab 5-2: Configure Device Mobility
  • Lab 5-3: Configuring Cisco Unified Mobility
  • Lab 6-1: BAT Tips and Trick
  • Lab 6-2: Planning Firmware Upgrades
  • Lab 6-3: Reading Common Voice IOS Debug Output
  • Lab 6-4: Reading RTMT Trace Files

Optional Additional Labs:

  • Lab A1: Extension Mobility Cross Cluster
  • Lab A2: Generating CUCM CAR Tool Reports