[Asterisk-Users] Cisco's CallManager and * (was: Cisco 7960g)

[Siggi Langauf]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Yifang Dai wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:50:41PM +0200, Siggi Langauf wrote:
> >
> > There's not much to it: just configure * as an H.323 gateway in
> > CallManager for the appropriate extensions.
>
> Thanks! I'll need to read more about how to accomplish this in CCM :)

Trivial: login as administrator on the admin webpage, select Device/Add a
New Device, select Device type "Gateway", set type to "H.323 Gateway",
enter the * boxe's IP address as "Device name" and it's there.

Now you just need a route pattern: "Route Plan"/"Route Pattern", select
"Add a New Route Pattern", enter number the Pattern (eg. "X.!#" for "all
numbers terminated by "#") as "Route Pattern", select *'s IP address from
the "Gateway/Route List" box, insert, "reset" (in CCM) the gateway and
you're done.

The nice thing is that from then on, everything is routed via Asterisk, so
you can forget about CCM ;-)

[...]
> I've downloaded openh323/pwlib/asterisk-oh323 from the above site, and
> cvs co the asterisk modules, everything is looking good so far... I've
> been putting off the asterisk project, since the only way to get to PTSN
> previously is the analog lines :)

One more reason to route via Asterisk: it works fine with nearly all known
analog PSTN interfaces, most notably the Digium ones :-D.

And debugging * configuration is a bliss compared to debugging CCM, as you
do have a console...
Moreover, * can actually do much more than CCM, so unless you need Skinny
support, there's no need to use (or learn) CCM ;-)

Cheers,
	Siggi