Integration of control VCS with VCS ExpressWay

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• VCS-Express and the integration of control VCS

  Hello

  I have the following question on the integration between VCS and VCS Express behind NAT devices.

  Control of VCS in the configuration of the area customer I will use the (Real) Global IP address location > Peer Address or I have to use the private IP address.

  Thank you

  Hello

  It depends on the interface how you have connected on the highway. So if you have two connected interfaces then the internal one is configured with a private address, and that you would use on the control to send traffic to. But to your question, I assume you have a connected only interface so you can use the public ip address for sent traffic of venture capital control.

  Ask if you need more information.

  Best regards / / Andrey

• 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

• Control of VCS and VCS expressway design

  I have a problem with the design of control and track Express VCS. Now, here's two VCS control and a highway. As you know, put on the Internet Highway and a control on my seat. At the same time, I want to put the other control on the management of my company which is in another city. Can it work correctly? How dose it work?

  You must create two zones on VCS Expressway crossing server and a customer journey area by control VCS.

  In other words, you should have a link path by VCS - C connection VCS-E separately.

  Please be sure to set different H.323/SIP port on each VCS - C.

  For example:

  VCS - C1 (Headquarters): area of traversal client pointing to VCS-E 6001 as port H323 and SIP traversal port 7001.

  VCS - C2 (branch): area of traversal client pointing to VCS - E with 6002 as port H323 and SIP traversal port 7002.

  VCS-E: a traversal server zone list for VCS - C1 (6001 as port H323 and SIP traversal port 7001) and other traversal server list for VCS - C2 (6002 as port H323 and SIP traversal port 7002)

• Keep the highway-VCS-control or switch to Expressway-C/E?

  We currently have CUCM 9.1 2, VCS-control (virtual) 8.6 and 8.6 VCS-Expressway (Physics) in our environment. Endpoints are a mixup of SIP and SCCP, Jabber customers phones and EX90 4. Everything had been originally been setup with our EX90 to register for VCS and the pair of VCS to just be there for the EX90 to use (they were quite nice sitting here doing nothing with the little utility that we see in our EX90s).

  A few weeks ago, I dug in our configuration to better use our infrastructure and do some things that were never done during the initial implementation of our system of phone two years ago. I have installation MRA on the pair of VCS to allow to our Jabber endpoints to record without VPN, update the EX90 with keys now free option for PR, DD, etc., saved the EX90s to CUCM instead of VCS and update the firmware on the pair of VCS and EX90.

  Final update nagging I confusion keep me on is that I should get licenses to convert our VCS-control and highway Highway-C and E or keep as-is. It seems that C/E are the wave of the future with Cisco wanting to check directly to CUCM, so I feel like it's the 'right' thing to do here...

  -Without registering on VCS more, I'm better convert Expressway-C/E?

  -Did I miss all the features/functionality leaving them alone?

  -My 5 traversal licenses will become licenses RMS once converted? (I saw mixed reviews on this and prefer not to spend the extra $750 / piece on them if I can convert my existing licenses).

  Thank you!

  Pete

  Not really sure on the migration options to license, but right now that VCS can do everything that expressway can do, and more.  RMS licenses are less expensive than the traversal licenses, so if you plan to expand, it might be cheaper in the future.  Other than that, I don't see no reason to abandon the feature.

• integration of lync 2013 with cisco vcs - c

  Hello

  I found a lot of documentation on integrating to Lync 2010 with VCS - C, but can't find much on the integration of Lync 2013.  Could someone shine some light on this for me?
  Thank you!

  Hi, David,.

  It would be preferable that you contacted Cisco re: integration

  https://supportforums.Cisco.com/thread/2181356

  Cisco PDF

  Or try to repost your question to the TechNet Forum

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/ocsinterop/thread/319f9e94-f7ec-4c6e-994C-f5412e345e2e

• Jabber client - encryption of VCS Expressway with MRA

  Hi all

  I'm working on the implementation of MRA for a video solution existing. Version CUCM is 9.1.2 (no IM & P server), vcs - c and vcs-e 8.2.2.  Client Jabber is 11.5.x

  I finished most of the introduction and I am able to call internally and externally through MRA.

  I still have a few things to tweak.  One is the encryption of video calling once jabber connects from outside.  From my understanding, the thigh jabber call end point and VCS Expressway uses TLS. But when I run wireshark on the PC with Jabber client, I don't see the RTP stream as being encrypted.

  CUCM my jabber device does not use a secure profile.  Is it ok or not?

  Please let me know if more are needed.  Thank you

  You can confirm the call is encrypted from the client of jabber MRA by doing as follows (I used 11.5 jabber client, if you are using an older client, I can't guarantee this method):

  1. make a call from the client jabber ARM, once the call is configured and media is established, you can end the call.
  2. create a jabber client problem report (help > report a problem...)
  3. Enter the required details and save the .zip file.
  4 extract the file "jabber.log" from the .zip file. Since this file (at least since the version of client jabber 11.5) has the SIP messaging included in this document, you can use TranslatorX to view the file (you can also use a text editor if you wish).
  5 generate a diagram of the log file.

  translatorx - 01.png

  

  6. in the diagram of the scale, you should be able to locate the origin of the call. Search for an invitation, in my case a "RE-INVITE" and select it. A pop-up window will appear with the details of the SIP message.

  translatorx - 02.png

  

  7. read the content of the message prompt of the SIP protocol (focusing on the SDP - the component of negotiating media). I won't go into detail about how to read SIP messages (there's a good article here, it is not for jabber specifically, but the same concepts apply).

  translatorx - 03.png

  

  8. close the prompt message and open the message 'OK w/SDP' to examine the response of the VCS-E. The SDP response, we can confirm that the encryption settings have been accepted for the media (media will be encrypted).

  translatorx - 04.png

  

  For re - apply point Jamie, unless you run CUCM in mixed mode and using security profiles, signalling/media encryption stops on the thigh of CUCM/endpoint and the VCS - C respectively. See the diagram below for reference (mixed mode not implemented).

  MRA-media - flow.png

  

  You need not applied to the device of CSF security profiles to obtain the encryption between the client of jabber MRA and the VCS-E. If you can decode signaling and media packets in Wireshark your jabber client, you probably will not connect via ARM (ARM is always encrypted).

  Please let us know if that helps.

  -Jon

• 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.

• 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 & 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

• 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.

• review during deployment - VCS Expressway

  Hello world!!!

  We knew the benefits of deployment - VCS Expressway. After reading "Cisco TelePresence video Communication Server Configuration of base (control with Highway) - Deployment Guide", I and my team are faced with the following:

  1 - if we do not "Advanced Networking option key", we are not able to use the static NATing feature of the VCS Expressway, but also the interfaces network double. This is why we need this firewall do NAT reflection (it allows to control VCs access the IP public VCSexpressway) and the deep Inspection (to change the IP address that is part of the SIP header). This statement is correct?

  2. - If in my deployment, I'll open some ports in the firewall, is it means that my network is exposed to external threats? There are a few Considerations to keep in mind the safety on the end points that will be in the Internet?

  I also leaves a small attached file, in this file, you can get an idea of what I'm doing. I will seek in advance for your comments. Thank you for all.

  The same concept applies to the least.

  If you already have a DMZ with public IPs, you should be fine. If not, you could split the existing subnet you have, get a new ISP, use proxy arp...

  Not sure how are your details if you are unsure how to configure what I told you in the message before you may need to ask a guy to additional network.

  As you say yourself, if you can not prevent NAT (course, which is a nice way to deploy, but it would require double interface, now known as enhanced networking key).
  Also remember that you must not share the VCS-E IP with other services.

  Another option may be to accommodate the VCS-E to an ISP or there is also some providers that offer an area crossing of VCS (at least the non-cucm style) as a service.

  That you have developed a computer user, do you plan to use jabber-video (old style of tms) or jabber (cucm)?

  Please note the messages with the stars below and define the thread if it's an answer!

• 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...

• Change the Source URI for outbound calls using VCS Expressway X8.2

  Hi all

  I would like a little help on a CPL script, that I'm working on. I lived all the examples of community support and I am always sick.

  We run on VCS X8.2.  What I've read, VCS X8.1 has introduced a few new CPL capabilities, including the node location CPL supports rewriting the regex-based source alias.  I would like to take advantage of this new feature. I'm looking for a tutorial or a direction more advanced examples using this new capability.

  Here's my question:

  I have an internal domain "CompanyA.local" and I have a public domain "Entreprisea.com". «My Cisco video endpoints register control VCS with a SIP URI of "[email protected] / * / .local'.»

  Receive calls from outside help "[email protected] / * / com" and the rules of research, I route calls properly internally.

  When I dial an external company, my endpoint is showing a video SIP URI of "[email protected] / * / .local"

  Of course, this isn't a SIP URI dial-able and should be changed to "[email protected] / * / .com'." "

  I know that this can be achieved using CPL, but I have not used this feature before.
  Any help would be appreciated.

  Please suggest an example script CPL I can review.

  I would use a Regex to cover all of my similar to the following endpoints:

  source-url-to-message-regex = "(.*) ' @CompanyA.local '"
  source-url-to-message-replace = "------[email protected] / * /"

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  oooooo, that answer above gave me the answer I was looking for. It does not work! It seems that the syntax for the xml file has changed from pre x 8 and x 8. Looks like I've been using the incorrect syntax. I was missing the AVA: in the clause to the proxy, which is my version of rule switch not working. Still don't know why the address switch did not work, but I prefer the rule-switch anyway, so no big loss for me.

  I've tested, and it is fully functional on my vm VCS x8.2 running lab

  
  
  "xmlns:TAA ="http://www.tandberg.net/cpl-extensions"
  "" xmlns: xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi: schemaLocation = "urn: ietf:params:xml:ns:cpl cpl.xsd" >
         
           
             
               "[email protected] / * / ' >