Control of VCS and VCS expressway design

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• VCS ExpressWay and control over the different Versions

  Hello world

  Can be used on a newer VCS Highway then control VCS?

  Currently we have a highway of VCS and a tester of VCS X6.1 running. I plan to upgrade to X7.2.1 and will temporarily have the South, the new version with the old version running control.

  I don't see any documentation that may not be completed. Especially since X7.2.1 had interop tests already performed with X6.x.

  Mark

  Hi Mark,

  Please check the following page 8, section "Prerequisites", document

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/Telepresence/infrastructure/VCs/config_guide/Cisco_VCS_Basic_Configuration_Control_with_Expressway_Deployment_Guide_X7-2.PDF

  Prerequisites

  Before you begin the configuration of the system, make sure that you have access to:

  -Guide the administrator of VCS and VCS Getting Started Guide (for reference purposes)

  -control of VCS running the version X 5 or later

  -a PC connected by Ethernet to a local network that allows to route HTTP (S) traffic to the VCS

  -a web browser runs on the PC

  -a serial interface on the PC and the cable (if the initial configuration must be performed on the interface series)

  Answer to your question, there is no problem if VCSE and VCSC installed on versions of different software.

• Control of Cisco and VCS VCS Expressway

  Dear team,

  We bought Cisco VCS and VCS Expressway 7.X.

  Need download link for the model of the FVO and software and please guide how to install Cisco VCS and VCS Expressway 7.X?

  Thank you

  Cisco_VCS_Virtual_Machine_Deployment_Guide_X7-2 may exceed OVA installation and initial configuration.  Additional configuration and deployment guides that they can be found here.

• 2 MCU and VCS Expressway, routing problem

  Hi all

  We have a design with a group of control VCS (2 members), cluster VCS Expressway (2 members), and a couple of microcontrollers (registred H.323 on VCS control cluster with the same prefix: 90).

  Each highway has a public IP address and incoming calls from outside can only be routed to microcontrollers:

  [email protected]/ * / for MCU_1 and [email protected]/ * / for MCU_2 (we don't have external DNS resolution).

  I put a conversion into motorway of VCS to change [email protected]/ * / to [email protected] / * / and [email protected]/ * / to [email protected] / * /.

  The problem is when someone calls [email protected]/ * / sometimes (randomly) the call is routed to MCU_2 (instead of MCU_1) and if the appellant see the auto attendant.

  The occcurs even then of the appeal [email protected]/ * / (MCU_2), sometimes the call is routed to MCU_1.

  Any idea what can cause this device or a way to make it work well?

  Thanks for help.

  José

  I think still that separate prefix would work, but here are a few ideas:

  Are incoming calls which do not possibly using SIP that is being interoperability H323 or incoming calls all certainly the H323?

  If you want to keep pure H323, you could perhaps just have a search rule/turn on your VCS-E who changed [email protected] to an E164 e.g. 90... and had a search on your VCS - C rule that says 90... stop at the local area.

  I also noticed that you direct calls to [number]@MCU-IP - have you tried to direct all calls to [number]@VCS-C IP instead?  If the VCS is the holder of a registration for a number, it should be able to deliver accordingly.

• Control of VCS - H460 and punishment should be active?

  I have control of VCS and highway in production the sanction and h460 are both active on the highway, but inactive on the control.  Is this correct?

  I guess you saw the 'dormant' on a xstatus page https:///h323, right, or it is mentioned

  somewhere else as well?

  Maybe that Andreas might followed a request for improvement, because at least it can be confusing.

  On a VCS - C it appears in red (at least) letters on h323 config page.

  May not show at all on the vcs - c might be useful as well...

  In general h460 is a party which makes the highway a highway.

  If you would like to try for example to access to the

  https:///locallyregisteredendpoints page he would tell you that you do not have a license.

  H460 is a party that makes the fast lane of the motorway.

  So this 'inactive' is nothing you need to worry, this is the desired behavior. And its

  OK h.460 is not used on the SCV - c (this is not a bug it's a feature :-))

  If your firewall allows it and your VCS-E is set up to do this, you can try to register endpoint

  with the VCS E h.460.

  Generally when having strange symptoms its worth checking that there is no NAT help / Application

  bridge layer or what ever between the components involved and firewall ports are correctly

  configured and zone rules and the research of course are configured correctly.

  Read also the notes of publication and eventually upgrading to the latest versions of software.

  The course area has options has two h323 options that I would try to play in such a case:

  Demultiplexing "H.460.19" and "Protocol" mode (must be the same on vcs - c and - e).

  Andreas: What are the use cases of these parameters?

  In any case, his strange with his scrambled.

  J.House: Please note the answers using the star under the messages!

• Highway-C and highway-E and VCS Expressway

  Hello

  I'm confused by these three

  I know that expressway-E is used with Express-C track

  Their function is like VCS Expressway? or am I wrong?

  Please help to know when to use each one?

  Also why use us next to the firewall? What is the average of the crossing of firewall?

  Also, when I connect external with Jabber, is there any type of registration with each of them? I see a number taken in charge of registeration of 2500 and 5000 in the VCS Expressway data sheet

  Thank you

  Haitham

  Hi Haitham,

  In general, a point of endpoints/client must register for a 'device' so that it can be used as part of a company dial plan. This 'device' could be CUCM or a VCS and will determine if an endpoint/client is used to connect, or how the calls and form, it can be done.

  If the endpoint does NOT have one of these devices (CUCM or VCS), it could still be used (for example, a videoconferencing device stand alone), it's just that we do not see within the company structure of appeal. It may not appear in the directories, it cannot give priority to call outside, etc etc. The Jabber client has to register with CUCM either a VCS to make it work at all.

  If you use CUCM with a VCS-E, endpoints will record to CUCM. If the endpoints are internal to the company, they apply directly to the CUCM and if are external, then they will be connect via VCS-E and the recording will be dug through CUCM, so still save with CUCM.

  VCS-C/e with environment of TMS, endpoints will record VCS - c when internal and again use the VCS-E for tunnel applications from external device to the VCS - C. Depending on how you want to deploy these devices, external devices/clients could actually register directly with VCS-E, but I'm getting ahead of things. Jabber in this environment use of TMS to provide authentication of the user, even if the actual recording takes place on the VCS.

  Does that help?

  Chris

• Integration of control VCS with VCS ExpressWay

  Hi all

  I had to submit the question to your experience and knowledge:

  We will integrate a control of VCS with OS X7.1 onboard with an EpressWay VCS with X7.0.1instead.

  Is it going to work or will we need to have corresponding versions of OS/FW?

  If the latter, is possible to downgrade VCS - C OS without the need to have a maintenance and support contract?

  Thank you

  Andrea

  Hello Andrea,

  In my opinion, it should work. Only thing you should take care of bugs that could be corrected in the version of x7.1.

  If you want to downgrade the VCS - c software to x7.0.1, you will be able to do as the key to unblocking would be same for the x version 7 software.

  in my opinion it would be better if you upgrade the operating system version on vcs-Highway to x7.1 as the key to unblocking would be same and just download the software from the site and cisco unity upgrade.

  Thank you

  Alok

• TMS server and control the VCS

  Hello

  We have a customer's request if they can change the usename (admin) of control VCS in the TMS server. They don't want to purge the VCS of TMS server control, because they still need all the TMS Server historical reports. Basiaclly, they won't use the username: admin more to managing TMS server. They can create another account in the control of VCS with admnin rights, but how they change in the SMT server without purge from the TMS server.

  In the server of TMS, the VCS control connections tab, there is a place to change the password. but no place the username change.

  TMS software version: 13.1.2

  VCS Control version: 7.0.1

  Note: I noticed that this option is available on the server SMT version 14.2.

  Thank you

  Kind regards

  Chris

  Hello

  Using a different name that 'admin' to manage the VCS was introduced in TMS 14.1 (CSCuc88048). Not even bleed and add will help them, I'm afraid!

  Your client is upgraded if they want to use a different user name.

  Kind regards

  Kjetil

• VCS Expressway

  Hello

  • Is attached design, pls confirm if it is correct?
  • Actually my boss want to have a video conference with the xyz company that is have a VCS highway up and it works direct, we ordered the new switch Express VCS and 1 not old codec C20 it asked me to install, and unfortunately, I'm not able to configure, want to know the concept how URI dialing , and how do I register endpoints TP in VCS, I am recording Codec C20 for VCS and it shows in the registration of newspapers rejected and failed on C20.
  • Very new to VCS and desperately want to know how the flow of calls will be in 2 our separate entities for example, mycompany.com and xyz.com
  • There is no default gateway for LAN2 option so how traffic will be routed to other areas, we can add a route in VCS.

  Thank you

  Usually, there are two components - control and VCS VCS Expressway. VCS control is located on the internal network and VCS Expressway is located on the external/DMZ network. Endpoints register control VCS. VCS control build a "Zone of crossing" VCS Expressway and when endpoint route tent yells, he's going to Control of VCS VCS Expressway and then.

  You may be able to register endpoint for VCS Highway if you supply on this device license. You must configure a domain on the VCS to accept records. You must define this area even on the endpoint as well.

  Take a look at this to resolve endpoint records. http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/TD/docs/Telepresence/infrastructure/article...

  This can also be caused by firewall as well.

  You can see the documentation below for how to configure the outgoing VCS-C/VCS-e call.

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/TD/docs/Telepresence/infrastructure/article...

• VCS Expressway outside to endpoints internal call

  I have a new implementation where internal control 1 to VCS in LAN and VCS Expressway in DMZ 1.

  VCS Expressway has an IP public address/NAT.

  Currently, we have a group of VC endpoint, each endpoint has a public IP/NAT to the local network, to allow internet to make H.323 call directly by public IP address of the composition of the endpoint.

  My question is, after having implemented VCS Expressway in DMZ, how do the numbering plan at each endpoint internal VCS Highway outside call? Do I still need to give to each endpoint an ip/NAT publich.

  Thank you very much.

  A much simpler and in my opinion, more elegant and more scalable solution would be not to use IP addresses for calls, but to allocate and register outcomes with E.164 alias. That way you all you need is the internal IP address.

  So the outer ends may, in this case, call your settings using the [email protected] / * / or [email protected] / * /-E_IP_address.

  Internal assessment criteria can call each other using alias only for as long you have the rules of research in place, and cannot therefore have the external ends you will allow to record with you VCS-E for one reason or another.

  If you have the outcomes of Polycom external with the old version of the software that does not support Annex O URI component, then it's very simple to include a transformation of prior research on the VCS-E which will allow these settings call using owners 'numbering URI "; VCS-E_IP_address ##Alias - and if you, on the odd occasion, a final point which cannot use anything other than IP addresses, you can configure the alias of relief on the VCS-E to point to a specific or a standard automatic on a MCU, purpose etc.

  A dial plan using as above will also allow you to use DHCP addresses, the alias remains static, and that's what counts, addresses much simpler to give to people. e.g. 123456 is much easier to remember than 202.138.98.23 etc, not to mention the IPv6 addresses, and because you save your settings with domain name, and then customers SIP will also be able to connect very easily.

  /Jens

• VCS Expressway, highway

  Hello

  Gently, I confused, what are the differences between VCS Expressway and Freeway?

  -Don't need Expressway a HW (server), it is only allowed in CUCM I need to buy?

  -pre sales engineer, when can I choose VCS-E? and when can I take the freeway?

  Thanks and greetings

  There is a thread here:

  https://supportforums.Cisco.com/discussion/12699961/Expressway-series-vs-VCs-control-Expressway

  To summarize:

  What are the differences between VCS Expressway and Freeway?

  -VCS expressway or the Server Traversal is the 'legacy' that supports local recording of external H323/SIP based endpoints by using its features of Registrar Gatekeeper h.323 and SIP. It also serves as the traversal server for VCS (client of crossing) control to support for firewall traversal calls and B2B.

  -Highway consists of Core Expressway and the highway, or they call it 'Collaboration Edge'. The concept of highway is the same as the 'life' VCS control + VCS Expressway to provide firewall route, B2B calls. Channel Express is an extension for CUCM controlled environment for Mobile and remote access. With Highway, external clients/video endpoints can register on the CUCM without using VPN. Expressway in this case do not support the records the of endpoints. Endpoints will locally save on CUCM using technology of firewall Expressway (Core + Edge) courses.

  Expressway takes a HW (server), it is only allowed in CUCM I need to buy?

  -  Highway needs a server and it can be deployed in a virtual environment.

  You can take a look at offerings Cisco Business Edition 6000 (BE6K):

  http://www.Cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/Unified-Communications/Business-Edition-6000/data_sheet_c78-717454.html?CacheMode=refresh

  as when can pre sales engineer, I choose VCS-E? and when can I take the freeway?

  -I suggest to contact your Cisco representative helping you find the right solution for your customer.

  Kind regards

  Acevirgil

• Jabber & the question of control of VCS - Inbound TLS negotiation error

  I'm just creating Jabber and control VCS. When I try to connect to Jabber I get a message "Unable to connect to server."

  In the event on the VCS log, I see the following:

  TVCS: Event = "Inbound TLS negotiation error" Service = "SIP" Src - ip = "192.168.111.124" Src-port = "49206" Dst - ip = "10.80.14.111" Dst - port - retail "5061" = "Timeout".

  When I connect to the VCS Expressway everything works great so it doesn't seem to be a provisioning question.

  Any help would be great

  Jon

  Hi Jon,

  so you are saying I can deduce that refine us this firewall problem. Now, I want to know something more.

  If you have Cisco ASA then according to me, there is a map of class set making match of highway traffic in this branch on port 5061 that is TLS?

  can you tell me if you have a few feature phone or else proxy on the firewall?

  Thank you

  Alok

• VCS Expressway & movi 4.2 configuration

  Hi all

  I created movi account manually in the TMS and it work perfectly with VCS - control.

  However, it cannot register for VCS expressway. Is it mandatory to have a name authority pointer record in DNS?

  For example, configure us abc.com as the domain name SIP Highway VCS, is mandatory to fix abc.com as public highway VCS by DNS server IP address?

  Thank you

  Ben

  That is to say you do not originate in the AMZ comes directly to the public IP address of the VCSE

  If that's the case at least, you should see registration tent if nothing can be seen then you need to look at the firewall

  is he ASA? try tp packets capture and see why you arew not hitting the VCSE using SIP

  as it could be firewall issue!

  HTH

• VCS Expressway cannot connect

  Hello

  I just put in place a control of VCS and a highway of VCS. I set up the traversal client on the VCS control using the port 6001 H.323 and SIP 7001.  I set up the crossing on the VCS Exp server using the same ports.  I get "H.323 could not not connect to x.x.x.x:6001 no response of the system.

  The SIP will not connect either 'connection failed '.

  There is no list of the control of VCS to VCS highway.  Authentication is disabled.  They are both pointed out the same NTP.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you!!

  Rhonda,

  In short, the configuration looks OK. Can specify you what other types of devices couche3 between the VCS - C and VCS-E outside the ASA?

  If the firewall is not the issue, the problem may be caused by routing problems. If you allow ICMP from the command to the highway, you can check if the routing of the works by logging in as root (with SSH) for the VCS - C and launching the command

  Traceroute x.x.x.x

  where x.x.x.x is the IP address of your Expressway.

  Thank you

  Andreas

• VCS Expressway Starter Pack

  Hi all

  First of all, let me say that I am the kind again in part "Tandberg" telepresence.

  I'll put up a VCS Expressway Starter Pack (with the option to double network interface) the week next to our customers.

  I read the VCS Expressway SP deployment guide, but I still have a few questions:

  -What is the best place to place the SP VCSe?  (inside the DMZ, or the Public network)

  Tomorrow we will hear whether or not the customer has a demilitarized area.

  -I understand that the external firewall must redirect the ports 5060, 5061 and range 50000/52399 to SP VCSe

  If there is a demilitarized zone we need to open the ports on the firewall inside as well?

  -Is possible with MS VCSe to receive video calls to (locally) the ends registred? (For example: an E20 to another company) If so, we need to open additional ports on the firewall?

  Thank you in advance,

  Wouter

  Hi Wouter,

  Check out the link for more information below.

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/prod/collateral/ps7060/ps11305/ps11315/ps11337/data_sheet_c78-697075.html

  It gives answer to some of your questions, like which is the best place to install the VCS - SP network.

  Normally, we have seen many customers put the box in the DMZ and use for incoming and outgoing calls.

  Although the deployment either specifically depends on requirement and network design once.

  Also see VCS starter pack deployment guide.

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/Telepresence/infrastructure/VCs/config_guide/Cisco_VCS_Expressway_Starter_Pack_Deployment_Guide_X7-1.PDF

  He gave the port information and also check the document use of port at the link below.

  http://www.Cisco.com/en/us/docs/Telepresence/infrastructure/VCs/config_guide/Cisco_VCS_IP_Port_Usage_for_Firewall_Traversal_Deployment_Guide_X4_to_X7.PDF

  and answer your last questions, yes its possible to receive video call of endpoint not locally registered in VCS - SP, but then you need of DNS SRV records for your video field or you must call using ip address-SP-VCS.

  SRV DNS is the preferred method.

  Thank you

  Alok