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Agent doesn’t go into Not Ready state (UCCE RONA)
Hello everyone, Today I would like to share a case, which happened at our customer UCCE recently. They tried to configure Ringing On No Answer (RONA) logic in their contact center. However when they tested it, they discovered that if the agent didn’t answer the call, his state didn’t change to Not Ready as it…
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Enabling chat between the Supervisor and the Agents (Cisco Webex Contact Center)
In this short post I will explain you how to fix the issue, when the Supervisors can’t send a text message to one of the monitored agents in Cisco Webex Contact Center. The supervisor complains, the he doesn’t see the internal chat icon in his desktop. Here is an example of such a situation: Let’s…
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Digital Channels are not enabled in the Agent Desktop (Cisco Webex Contact Center)
The problem description: Agents complain that when they login to their Webex Contact Center desktops, they can’t use the digital channels like Chat, Email, Messengers, SMS, etc. And of course they do not therefore receive any inbound contact from digital channels. Read this post and you will know how to fix it. The solution: When…
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IVR Menu with Dial an Extension Option (Cisco Webex Contact Center)
Sometimes, when you develop an IVR application, there can be a challenge of adding Dial an Extension option to a voice menu; i.e you have to do something like this in your menu: “If you want to do option1, press 1; if you want to do option2, press 2; if you know the extension number…
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Why internal calls dialed by extensions fail in Cisco Webex Calling
Today I am going to share with you, my dear readers, some experience of working with Cisco cloud telephony – Cisco Webex Calling. One of my customers received his own tenant in Webex Calling and started using it. So, they received access to Webex Control Hub, they configured some users with extensions for testing, etc.…
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Create Generated Prompt and Create Container Prompt Steps in UCCX Scripts
In many UCCX scripts a developer can meet a task to spell or pronounce some phrases from intermediate variables whose values are dynamically determined based on runtime script information. For example, the customer enters his information like his credit card number or zip code etc. and the script must confirm it by spelling this value…
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Saving Information to a Text File in UCCX Repository
Being a Cisco Instructor, I often receive practical questions from my students and customers about some configurations of Cisco UC products. Many scenarios are not clearly described in Cisco documentation and therefore can be found only during real work with Cisco equipment and products. One of these question was related to UCCX. Our customer wanted…
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Understanding Cisco Voice Gateways – Part 4. Digital Voice Ports
In the previous parts of our Cisco Voice Gateway story we identified what analog voice ports are. Also we talked about different types of analog supervisory signaling. Now let’s see how we can use our Cisco voice gateways with digital lines such as T1, E1 and BRI. These types of connection are still widely available…
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Understanding Cisco Voice Gateways – Part 3. Loop-start and Ground-start Signaling (FXS and FXO Ports)
Now you already know what Cisco Voice Gateways are and which types of analog voice ports they can use. It is time to discuss signaling processes on FXO and FXS ports. As it was shown earlier, voice ports on routers and gateways physically connect them to telephony devices such as telephones, fax machines, PBXs, and…
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Voice and DTMF input in UCCX Script with Nuance ASR
Some days ago I helped one guy to solve his problem with the voice menu in his UCCX script. He had UCCX integrates with Nuance ASR and he was asked to provide a menu with both voice and DTMF input in his UCCX Script. Let me show you, how it can be configured. First of…
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Pinging Multiple IP addresses with Python
Recently, we talked with you about using Python for network programming. Let me share you an simple example of a Python script, which helps me a lot in my work. Before every course the trainers have to check the lab operation. The next week I will deliver the CCEA (Cisco Contact Center Enterprise Administration) course…
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Understanding Cisco Voice Gateways – Part 2. Analog Voice Ports
Today we are going to continue our conversation about Cisco Voice Gateways. In the beginning we defined what the voice gateways are, and now it is time to see how we can connect our VoIP infrastructure to traditional analog lines or devices. Yes, it is 2022, however the analog connections are still implemented. That’s why…
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Unlock CUCM Application Administration account
This post I’d like to write mostly for myself as a reminder, because I have to deal with such a situation very often during the labs on our Cisco UC courses. Unfortunately I always forget the CUCM CLI commands and have to search them in the net 😀. The problem is that the students enter…
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Understanding Cisco Voice Gateways – Part 1
The previous topic about Caller ID issues on Cisco FXO ports was of interest to many readers, and that’s why I decided to write series of posts about Cisco Voice Gateways for beginners. I see in our classes that the Voice Gateways are always a kind of a “dark horse” to our students, especially when we…
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Caller ID doesn’t work at FXO port on Cisco Voice Gateway
This morning I participated in a discussion on Cisco Community about a problem with Caller ID on FXO port. And this discussion reminded me my recent experience with a similar problem, which one of my customer faced in his Cisco PSTN voice gateway. It was new configuration for a voice gateway in a small branch…
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Collecting logs for UCCE. Method 2 – Analysis Manager of the RTMT
Hello everyone, Let’s continue our conversation about collecting logs for Cisco Contact Center Enterprise (CCE). In the first part of the story we saw, how to retrieve the logs with Diagnostic Framework Portico. Now it is time to show you, how you can do it more effectively with Cisco Real Time Monitoring Tool (RTMT). Almost…
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Diagnostic Framework Portico web page doesn’t open (UCCE/PCCE)
In the beginning of 2022 we discussed how to collect Cisco Contact Center Enterprise logs with Diagnostic Framework Portico. From time to time my students and customers face the issue when they can’t open the Diagnostic Framework Portico web-page. So they try to lunch it from CCE Tools folder or just simply type the link…
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CUCM AXL
When the engineers deploy Cisco UCCX or Cisco Unity Connection and integrate such system with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM), one of the common task is to configure so called CUCM AXL User credentials. Of course, the guys, who do such an integration for the first time in their life, wonder what the AXL really…
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Python for Network Programming
The era in which a network engineer only had to manage or configure one device at a time is quickly disappearing. With the growth of network devices, the adoption of cloud, and the desire of companies to be more flexible for a competitive edge in their market, the old ways of performing network management do…
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How to enable Early Offer in SIP Trunk CUCM?
One of the most frequently asked question, when connecting Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) to Public Switch Telephony Network or to any other VoIP system with a SIP Trunk, is how to configure SIP Early Offer media negotiations for this SIP trunk. By default, CUCM SIP trunks send the INVITE message without an initial offer (Delayed…