[cisco-voip] Needing to implement a monitoring solution in Afghanistan

[Joseph Quigley]

That's a great start Wes, looks like I am going to have to wrap my head
around the AXL. Hopefully there's enough grease.

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Wes Sisk <wsisk at cisco.com> wrote:

>  CAR natively will start generating reports for trunks:
> CSCtd77306    Generate trunk utilization report.
> CSCsk87140    CAR should include trunks in utilization reports
>
> however, that does not mean the data is missing from the CDR database, it
> only means CAR does not generate reports for it.  The records are in fact in
> the database and available for query.  This will show trunk utilization
> post-factum.
>
> For real time trunk utilization you can use the AXL serviceability API to
> query the RTMT performance monitor counters.
>
> /Wes
>
> On Friday, February 26, 2010 9:03:52 PM, Joseph Quigley
> <jdquigley at gmail.com> <jdquigley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Group,
>
> I just move into a engineering level position supporting Cisco Voice for
> NATO forces in Afghanistan. On one of the networks, all traffic leaves the
> CCM clusters via ICTs, and there are several clusters throughout the
> country. As of now, there is no insight into the call volume over each ICT
> and I am wondering if anyone has ever implemented a solution that will give
> a collective overview of traffic between multiple clusters over ICTs.
>
> As you can imagine, at some locations bandwidth is a premium - so that is
> one constraint. Another may be the acceptance of 3rd party software, but
> I'll cross that bridge - send any suggestions you may have.
>
> The one thing that comes to mind is to aggregate performance monitor data
> of the H323 objects referencing the ICTs into a SQL database at a set
> interval - say 30secs, then somehow graph that live. It doesn't seem simple
> for my skillset, and I don't want to reinvent the wheel - time is not on my
> side.
>
> I appreciate your suggestions!
>
> Joe Quigley
>
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