Contact Center 85 license upgrade and services related
Hello,
A customer of mine wants to upgrade his contzct center licenses, from ENH to Premium, he has a valid contract of ESW ans UCSS services for the enhanced licenses on his deployment.
I would like to know, is it necessary for him to buy ESW and UCSS along with the upgrade PN (L-CCX85-85U-E-P-S1)?
Thank you.
Hi Andre,
I was just refering the Ordering guide which says
Updating UCSS contract when upgrading Unified CCX licenses
UCSS cannot be upgraded from one category to another (e.g. Standard to Enhanced). If
the customer upgrades within the solution, they need to purchase UCSS for greater or
equal value to cover the new version, then they can request a credit on the unused term
of the original purchase from Customer Service
you can also speak to [email protected] for more details on ESW.
regds,
aman
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Abhiram will address the following on the latest release of Cisco UCCX Version 10.0:
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Thanks for your questions.
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Sorry for late replay.
Yes, I've implemented a similar solution in the past.
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With Anirudh Ramachandran and Abhiram Kramadhati
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Anirudh Ramachandran is a customer support engineer at the Cisco Backbone Technical Assistance Center in Bangalore, India. Working in the Asia-Pacific time zone for the last two years, he focuses on Cisco Unified Contact Center Express issues and specializes in Linux, JTAPI/CTI integration, and UCCX system and database issues. He holds the CCNP Voice and UCCX Specialist certifications, and is also a Red Hat Certified Engineer. Anirudh writes tools and automates bug workarounds for UCCX in addition to working on TAC service requests, and currently has authored and co-authored seven such tools. Anirudh graduated from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering.
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Thanks for the question.
This is an interesting requirement, since the UCCX trigger's configuration is translated only to the Call Forward Busy External setting on the CUCM.
Trigger creation:
144768: Apr 22 21:54:23.789 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet.updateNewTrigger() - Creating a new Trigger :1234
144876: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet routePoint = 1234
144877: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet description = testt
144878: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet deviceName = testt
144879: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet devicePool = {1B1B9EB6-7803-11D3-BDF0-00108302EAD1}
144880: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet devicePoolName = Default
144881: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet callingSearchSpace =
144882: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet callingSearchSpaceName = None
144883: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet redirectCSS = default
144884: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet location = {29C5C1C4-8871-4D1E-8394-0B9181E8C54D}
144885: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet locationName = Hub_None
144886: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet partition =
144887: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet partitionName = None
144888: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet voiceMailProfile =
144889: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet voiceMailProfileName = None
144890: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet forwardBusyVM =
144891: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet forwardBusyDestination =
144892: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet forwardBusyCSS =
144893: Apr 22 21:54:23.884 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerServlet forwardBusyCSSName = None
144953: Apr 22 21:54:23.913 IST %MADM-LIB_AXL-7-UNK:AXL-ExecutionCmd-569.CCMLineSOAPAdmin: try makeRequest() on AXL: 10.106.113.142, AXLUser: axl, AXLPassword: XXXXXX
144954: Apr 22 21:54:23.913 IST %MADM-LIB_AXL-7-UNK:CCMVersionSOAPAdmin.getAXLVersion():7.1
144955: Apr 22 21:54:23.913 IST %MADM-LIB_AXL-7-UNK:AXL-ExecutionCmd-569.CCMLineSOAPAdmin: makeRequest() - Start REQUEST ====================
144956: Apr 22 21:54:23.913 IST %MADM-LIB_AXL-7-UNK:POST /axl/ HTTP/1.1
Connection: keep-alive
Host: 10.106.113.142:8443
Authorization: Basic YXhsOmF4bA==
SOAPAction: "CUCM:DB ver=7.1"
Accept: text/*
Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-length: 440
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">MADM_5691234CRS Line descriptionCallPark
144957: Apr 22 21:54:23.913 IST %MADM-LIB_AXL-7-UNK:AXL-ExecutionCmd-569.CCMLineSOAPAdmin: makeRequest() - End REQUEST ==================
144958: Apr 22 21:54:23.914 IST %MADM-LIB_AXL-7-UNK:AXL-ExecutionCmd-569.CCMLineSOAPAdmin: getSocket: MADM_LIB_AXL_AXL_SOCKET_POOL-0-79[TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA: Socket[addr=10.106.113.142,port=8443,localport=44913]]
144987: Apr 22 21:54:24.195 IST %MADM-LIB_AXL-7-UNK:AXL-ExecutionCmd-570.CCMCTIRoutePointSOAPAdmin: makeRequest() - Start REQUEST ====================
144988: Apr 22 21:54:24.195 IST %MADM-LIB_AXL-7-UNK:POST /axl/ HTTP/1.1
Connection: keep-alive
Host: 10.106.113.142:8443
Authorization: Basic YXhsOmF4bA==
SOAPAction: "CUCM:DB ver=7.1"
Accept: text/*
Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-length: 839
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">MADM_570testttesttCTI Route PointCTI Route PointCTI Route PointSCCPUserRing1000010000
144989: Apr 22 21:54:24.195 IST %MADM-LIB_AXL-7-UNK:AXL-ExecutionCmd-570.CCMCTIRoutePointSOAPAdmin: makeRequest() - End REQUEST ==================
145014: Apr 22 21:54:24.647 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerUtil.createRPAndLineOnCCM() - CTI RP created.
145015: Apr 22 21:54:24.647 IST %MADM-ADM_CFG-7-UNK:JTAPITriggerUtil.createRPAndLineOnCCM() - Created a Route Point = 1234
As you would aready know, the UCCX will send an AXL request (within the SOAP envelope) to the CUCM to create this RP. Looking at the existing code, there does not seem to be a method where we are differentiating between CFB_internal and CFB_external while sending this request.
We have taken this as an enhancement request and also spoken to the business unit about the same. It has been added to the roadmap, we will reach out to you offline to understand the business case so that the process can be expedited if needed.
Keep the questions coming
Cheers,
Abhiram Kramadhati
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