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For those of you who have been struggling integrating GNS3 with ASA as well as with JuniperOS , there is good news for you. Now, you can integrate GNS3 natively with ASA/Juniper OS using latest GNS3 release. This feature has been provided by integrating GNS3 with Qemu. Both JunOS  as well as ASA can be simulated/emulated using Qemu. By integrating both together, you can emulate Cisco Routers/Juniper Routers and ASA all under one interface .

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I have been doing some extensive UCCX scripting quite recently. One of the best ways to approach UCCX scripting is to explore Script Repository in your UCCX Server with some ACD(Automatic Call Distribution ) and AA(Auto Attendant) sample scripts.However, this might be very basic for most users out there. If you want to dig deep into learning, there is an excellent script repository on Cisco.com. With the release of UCCX 7.0(1) , some of the advanced Release 3 scripts (more…)

Extension Mobility was introduced to CUCME beginning with release 4.2 .With Later Releases e.g 4.3 and beyond, some enhanced features were added e.g the ability to use the phone user interface to configure personal speed dials directly on an EM phone . Some of feature enhancements include :

• Configurable Automatic Logout
• Automatic Clear Call History
• Privacy on an Extension Mobility Phone

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Recently, While searching on Cisco Unified Mobility Advantage (CUMA) and Cisco Unified Mobilitiy Client (CUMC) for my Apple iPhone, I came across a pretty comprehensive and detailed guide which covers setting up CUMA Server and integrating it during Post-install to many associated application servers e.g Microsoft Active Directory , Exchange Server , CUPS , CUCM , Cisco Unity Connection etc.Thought it might be useful to many of Blog readers as i have been asked few times for (more…)

Phone Proxy is a superset of TLS proxy where not only signaling but also media is secured for communication.It supports a Cisco UCM cluster in mixed mode or nonsecure mode.Configuration that i will show here will have UCM cluster in non-secure mode.TLS/SRTP will be terminated on ASA proxy server and TCP/RTP will be communicated between ASA and CUCM.You must have atleast ASA Code 8.0(4) although ASA 8.2 release is recommended as it supports MTA for each interface.Here,i will (more…)

If you have gone through all previous parts of this tutorial, you have  learned to configure CUCME for SIP trunk support to a VOIP SIP Internet Service Provider (ITSP) ,configuring  Inbound and outbound dial peers for call routing as well as configuring and supporting IP phones(e.g.CIPC).This is the last part of tutorial in which you will configure a SIP endpoint for same purpose.I will use (more…)