Using cisco jabber in a contact center environment

Hi All,
We have recently thought about using Cisco Jabber 10.5 in our environment for all contact center users follwoing are the versions we use
CAD - 8.5
UCCE - 8.5.3
CUCM - 8.6.2
We do not have a presence server but are planning on the same as we require it for jabber. Like to know if there would be any issues using CAD and CSD when we use jabber as a soft client and is there a requirement for CIPC or hardphones to be used with jabber.
Please help me out

This might help you out.
"Certain advanced use cases, such as those that involve posture assessment, profiling, and web authentication, are not consistently available with non-Cisco devices or may provide limited functionality, and are therefore not supported with non-Cisco devices. In addition, certain other advanced functions like central web authentication (CWA), Change of Authorization (CoA), Security Group Access, and downloadable ACLs, are only supported on Cisco devices.""
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/ise/1.1.1/compatibility/ise_sdt.html

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Ok,
I have looked at both logs. I have to mentinon though that you didnt
provide the log that shows the h323 setup between cucm and the VCS. This
is most likely because the call originated from a different cucm than
the ones you provided the logs from.
The call would have orginated from the first cucm in the cucm group of
this trunk: Name=RL_TRUNK_VIDEO
The cucm ip will be : 10.252.53.10.
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from:
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Module="network.h323" Level="DEBUG": Src-ip="10.252.53.10" Src-
port="54000"
Received RAS PDU:
Having said that here is my analysis of the logs that you sent..
Jabber sent an INVITE to CUCM and advertised all the codecs (audio and
video it can support)..
Observer that Jabber says it doesnt support G729 anexB
21:55:16.576 |//SIP/SIPTcp/wait_SdlReadRsp: Incoming SIP TCP message
from 10.223.20.73 on port 54677 index 90661 with 2220 bytes:
[862370,NET]
INVITE sip:[email protected];user=phone SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/TCP 10.223.20.73:54677;branch=z9hG4bK000029d3
From: "4122107" <sip:[email protected]>;tag=00059a3c78000011000070b0
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To: <sip:[email protected]>
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:55:16 GMT
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m=audio 19252 RTP/AVP 0 8 18 105 104 101
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a=sendrecv
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Note that G729A, G729AB, G729 is all advertised..
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Module="network.h323" Level="DEBUG": Src-ip="10.252.53.10" Src-
port="45660"
Received H.245 PDU:
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::= request : terminalCapabilitySet
capabilityTableEntryNumber 2,
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g729wAnnexB : 6
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receiveAudioCapability : g729 : 6
capabilityTableEntryNumber 5,
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g729AnnexA : 6
++++++
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Module="network.h323" Level="DEBUG": Src-ip="10.224.114.11" Src-
port="11163"
Received H.245 PDU:
value MultimediaSystemControlMessage
::= request : openLogicalChannel :
   forwardLogicalChannelNumber 1,
forwardLogicalChannelParameters
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g729AnnexAwAnnexB : 20,
     multiplexParameters
h2250LogicalChannelParameters :
+++Next VCS sends G729AB as the codec to use to CUCM+++
Apr 10 22:50:31 TWELDVCS01 tvcs: UTCTime="2014-04-11 01:50:31,784"
Module="network.h323" Level="DEBUG": Dst-ip="10.252.53.10" Dst-
port="45660"
Sending H.245 PDU:
value MultimediaSystemControlMessage
::= request : openLogicalChannel :
   forwardLogicalChannelNumber 1,
forwardLogicalChannelParameters
     dataType audioData :
g729AnnexAwAnnexB : 20,
     multiplexParameters
h2250LogicalChannelParameters :
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th call drops++
Apr 10 22:50:31 TWELDVCS01 tvcs: UTCTime="2014-04-11 01:50:31,790"
Module="network.h323" Level="DEBUG": Src-ip="10.252.53.10" Src-
port="45660"
Received H.245 PDU:
value MultimediaSystemControlMessage
::= response : openLogicalChannelReject :
forwardLogicalChannelNumber 1,
   cause dataTypeNotSupported : NULL
Apr 10 22:50:31 TWELDVCS01 tvcs: UTCTime="2014-04-11 01:50:31,790"
Module="network.h323" Level="INFO": Dst-ip="10.224.114.11" Dst-
port="11163"
Detail="Sending H.245 OpenLogicalChannelRejResponse
+++We then receive a call release from cucm with cause code of 47:
resource unavailable++++
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Module="network.h323" Level="DEBUG": Src-ip="10.252.53.10" Src-
port="50913"
Received H.225 PDU:
Q931
   Message Type: Release
Complete
   Call reference flag: Message sent from originating side
Call reference value: 0x7b
   Info Element : Cause
     Location: Usr
   Cause Value: Resource unavailable
   Info Element : User User
   Length = 22
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Change the region setting between the ICT trunk to VCS and Jabber to use
G711 and test again.

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Hi there,
I opened a discussion before about the Cisco Jabber Client for Android phones.
This product from Cisco is only official support bij a several mobile Android telephones. (very poor)
As everyone knows is that the mobile market is continious in development. Since a half year the official support phone list is still the same, but a lot of new Adroid phones are now on the market.
It's even so worse that some of the Cisco supported phones, are not available anymore in the market.
- Samsung Galaxy S2 becomes a Samsung Galaxy S3
- Samsung Galaxy TAB is still there
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At what are the alternatives?
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See:
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Samsung Galaxy Tab International (GT-P1000) with Android 2.2.1 or 2.3
Samsung Galaxy S II (AT&T) with Android 2.3
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Kind regards,
Edgar

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Aaron,
Thank you I will try what you suggest.
Respectfully,
Deborah
Deborah A. Morgan
Mary Washington HealthCare
Information Systems Network Support Team
(540) 741-1048 voice
(540) 741-1072 fax
Email [email protected]
From: aaronharrison
To: Deborah Morgan
Date: 09/12/2011 05:18 PM
Subject: - Re: Contact Center Express 7 Historical
Reports Peak Time CSQ
Cisco Support Community
Re: Contact Center Express 7 Historical Reports Peak Time CSQ
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Hi
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times are.
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the report.
Regards
Aaron
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Cisco Jabber Video codec negotiation

Hi,
I am wondering if there is a way to limit video negotiation to a one specific video codec: I need that to troubleshoot one way video call prb. I am using Cisco jabber for telepresence ver 4.6 with VCS ver X7.2.1.
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Cisco Jabber for Mac - Directory Lookup and Contact Fields

Hello,
After having issues myself with Cisco Jabber for Mac 9.2 specifically with Active Directory lookups not working, or contact information not populating (and therefore not being able to call users from the contact list as no telephone information exists) I am including a sample jabber-config.xml file that works for me.
Please note: there are many different ways to configure this. What I will be showing is the method that works for me and my deployment, which is pretty standard.
As always and as a disclaimer, once again, this is what has worked for my deployment scenario. Always keep backups of your configuration files, and always be mindful of anything you have configured already, especially in the jabber-config.xml file.
Background
My deployment is based on CUCM 9, with 1 publisher and 2 subscribers. I also have a CUCM IM & Presence 9.0 server. This assumes that you have already configured your deployment and Jabber is functioning already, albeit with the aforementioned issues.
As for Active Directory, my deployment will be based on Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers running in native 2008 mode. For this example, we will be searching directly against one of the DCs with a Global Catalogue role. Please be aware that in large deployments you will have to plan accordingly with regards to lookup traffic from Jabber clients to the DCs.
Also, as of Cisco Jabber for Mac 9, the client no longer can search via the CUCM internal directory (which may be made of local end users, Active Directory synced users, or a mix of both) and this must be done via a LDAP mechanism.
Scenario
In this deployment scenario, Cisco Jabber for Windows is working properly - you can search and add people from Active Directory, and contacts in your contact list have all the appropriate fields populated from Active Directory. However, when trying the same with Jabber for Mac, Jabber for iPhone or Jabber for iPad you notice that you cannot perform a directory lookup, and if you add people directly (for example, [email protected]) the user only has the IM field populated. No telephone, email or additional information is displayed.
Solution
Whereas Cisco Jabber for Windows uses the EDI mechanism (native Windows), whereby when running from a computer that is on the domain (or in the event that you are search for contacts in another Active Directory domain where a domain trust exists) , Jabber for Mac / iPhone / iPad uses the BDI mechanism.
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Caution!
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Steps
These are the steps I have followed. Other steps or considerations may vary.
- Log in to your TFTP server and download the jabber-config.xml file and keep it as a backup. If you are already using the jabber-config.xml file for other purposes, do not worry - you can add your BDI information parameters inside.
- Remove the jabber-config.xml file
- Edit the jabber-config.xml file and configure thus:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config version="1.0">
    <Directory>
        <DirectoryServerType>BDI</DirectoryServerType>
        <BDILDAPServerType>AD</BDILDAPServerType>
        <BDIPrimaryServerName>DOMAIN CONTROLLER IP ADDRESS</BDIPrimaryServerName>
        <BDIPresenceDomain>YOUR PRESENCE DOMAIN</BDIPresenceDomain>
        <BDIServerPort1>3268</BDIServerPort1>
        <BDISearchBase1>YOUR SEARCH BASE</BDISearchBase1>
       <BDIConnectionUsername>[email protected]</BDIConnectionUsername>
        <BDIConnectionPassword>PASSWORD</BDIConnectionPassword>
        <BDIEnableTLS>0</BDIEnableTLS>
   </Directory>
</config>
For example, let´s assume the following:
- Domain controller IP address is 10.1.1.2 .
- Your presence domain is test.local .
- Your search base will be test.local using the top level of the domain.
- Your username with which you will be doing your searches is called walt . Usually you can either identify walt as test.local\walt or [email protected] . It is always best, in these sort of scenarios, to use the UPN convention so we will be configuring a [email protected] .
- The password is the Active Directory password for the account walt .
- I have disabled TLS in my case. There are issues with the Jabber for Mac client when using other security methods.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config version="1.0">
    <Directory>
        <DirectoryServerType>BDI</DirectoryServerType>
        <BDILDAPServerType>AD</BDILDAPServerType>
        <BDIPrimaryServerName>10.1.1.2</BDIPrimaryServerName>
        <BDIPresenceDomain>test.local</BDIPresenceDomain>
        <BDIServerPort1>3268</BDIServerPort1>
        <BDISearchBase1>DC=test,DC=local</BDISearchBase1>
       <BDIConnectionUsername>[email protected]</BDIConnectionUsername>
        <BDIConnectionPassword>walt01!</BDIConnectionPassword>
        <BDIEnableTLS>0</BDIEnableTLS>
   </Directory>
</config>
One you have configured the jabber-config.xml file, you will now need to upload it to you TFTP server. Once uploaded, you will need to restart the Cisco TFTP service. Again, my TFTP server is on my CUCM publisher, so:
- I go to Cisco Unified OS Administration on my Publisher server, TFTP File Management and I upload jabber-config.xml to / directory
- I then go to Cisco Unified Serviceability on my Publisher server, I locate the Cisco TFTP service and I restart the service
Once this is done, you can figure up your Jabber for Mac client. As a test, on your Mac (using Terminal) go to:
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Cisco/Unified Communications/Jabber/Config
In here you will see several files, but what we want to see is jabber-config.xml . As soon as you start the Jabber for Mac client and log in, the jabber-config.xml file will download from your TFTP server and get saved here. When you see it appear, just type in your terminal window more jabber-config.xml and make sure that the output is the same as the xml file you created.
From there, try doing directory search. If you have previously added contacts and they still lack attribute information, you will need to remove them (sometimes it will not refresh properly) and add them again from the directory.
I will be updating this guide and ammending anything that is incorrect, but this is meant to be a quick checklist and steps to get this, at least in the most very basic version, up and running for Jabber for Mac.

Hello,
Thanks for this post! It works, I can do lookup and also I can add found contact to contact list and get information about contact from LDAP.
One more question: - I can't get all information about contact. I don't get e.c mobile phone number and more others attributes. I have tried to expand your file as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config version="1.0">
<Directory>
<DirectoryServerType>BDI</DirectoryServerType>
<BDILDAPServerType>AD</BDILDAPServerType>
<BDIPrimaryServerName>IP of AD</BDIPrimaryServerName>
<BDIPresenceDomain>Presence Domain</BDIPresenceDomain>
<BDIServerPort1>3268</BDIServerPort1>
<BDISearchBase1> Search Base</BDISearchBase1>
<BDIConnectionUsername>User</BDIConnectionUsername>
<BDIConnectionPassword>Password</BDIConnectionPassword>
<BDIEnableTLS>0</BDIEnableTLS>
       <BDISipUri>msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress</BDISipUri>
       <BDIPhotoSource>thumbnailPhoto</BDIPhotoSource>
       <BDIBusinessPhone>telephoneNumber</BDIBusinessPhone>
       <BDIMobilePhone>mobile</BDIMobilePhone>
       <BDIHomePhone>homePhone</BDIHomePhone>
       <BDIOtherPhone>otherTelephone</BDIOtherPhone>
       <BDITitle>title</BDITitle>
       <BDICompanyName>company</BDICompanyName>
<BDILocation>co</BDILocation>
<BDIPostalCode>postalCode</BDIPostalCode>
       <BDICity>l</BDICity>
       <BDIState>st</BDIState>
       <BDIStreetAddress>streetAddress</BDIStreetAddress>
</Directory>
</config>
But it didn't help.
When I capture lookup via Wireshark, I can see that Jabbers sends search request with bunch of attributes, but from LDAP answer contains only 8 attributes. (see attached screenshots)

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Hey Guys,
I have a little problem with the contact search feature of the cisco jabber for windows (Version 10.5.37889)
In my environment I have some Users (secretary phones and users too) which have two lastnames.
Exampleuser1: Firstname: Thomas Lastname: Meier Cisco ....
If a user is searching for Exampleuser1 by lastname (Cisco) the correct contact won't be listed
If a user is searching for Exampleuser1 by firstname (Thomas) the correct contact will be listed
If a user is searching for Exampleuser1 by lastname (Meier) the correct contact will be listed
is there a workaround or something else for resolving my problem?
thanks for reading my question :)

Workaround: "Cisco Meier, Thomas"
Have you looked at enabling wild card searches in jabber-config.xml?

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Hi everyone,
we are checking out the new Cisco Jabber for Windows client. The call pickup feature is the best new feature so far.
The only issue we are running into: as we are using global pickup groups devided by office we now see every call coming in for everyone.
I would suggest that it would be much better if you could choose, for which group of contacts you would like to enable the call pickup.
Is there a roadmap for this in the future of Jabber call pickup feature? Would be a very appreciated Addon.
Thanks & Cheers!

Roadmap questions cannot be discussed here, either post this question on a partner forum, or reach your AM for this.

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