[cisco-voip] H.323 Gateway Failover Testing

[Louis R. Marascio]

You need to tweak the H.225 TCP Timer service parameter.  This parameter
controls how long CallManager will wait for the H.225 TCP connection to
be established when setting up a call.  Default values for this service
parameter differ between CCM versions but I've found that it is usually
set to a value that is too long.  In essence, CCM is giving up on the
call before the H.225 TCP Timer has elapsed, and thus it has not had a
chance to try the next member in the route group.

Lower the value of the H.225 TCP Timer service parameter and try it
again.  I don't think there is any harm in making it 1-2 seconds.
Perhaps Wes or someone else on the list with a deeper understanding can
correct me here.

Best regards,

Louis 

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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Erick Bergquist
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:56 PM
To: Stu Packett; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] H.323 Gateway Failover Testing

With a H.323 gateway, the call manager doesn't know
what hardware, ports, controllers, etc are in the
gateway. The call manager just sends messages to the
gateways IP address and it's up to the gateway to
handle the call. The dialpeer, etc config on gateway
is how that is done. 

Are there multiple dial-peer matches for the digits
sent by call manager in the gateway and the call maybe
went out another port, etc?

Erick

--- Stu Packett <SPackett at fenwick.com> wrote:

> CallManager 4.0(2a)sr2b
> 2811 IOS 12.4(5)
> 
> I have 2 H.323 gateways.  Let's call them GW1 and
> GW2.  In CallManager,
> I setup a route group with GW1 and GW2 in the list
> (GW1 is first
> preference).  I then setup a route pattern to use
> this route group.  To
> do some failover testing, I telnetted into GW1 and
> shutdown the
> 'controller T1 0/0/0'.  Incoming calls failed over
> just fine to GW2.  My
> problem is when I do an outgoing call, I get a fast
> busy.  Does GW1 need
> to be completely shut down for this failover test to
> work?  I'm thinking
> it's because CallManager sees GW1's IP address is
> still up (even though
> T1 controller is down) and routes the call there.  I
> don't have access
> to GW1 because it's at a remote site to shut it
> down, but does the route
> groups depend on IP address and not on the
> controller's status?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
>
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