[cisco-voip] USB MOH in Vmware

[Wes Sisk]

You can use the moh from router hack for remote sites.


Otherwise, yes, an MCS is required.

/Wes

Kevin Damisch wrote:
>
> What options are available to have an external MOH source when running 
> CUCM 8.x in VMware?  The features and services guide says:
>
>  
>
> ·         The Fixed Music On Hold device cannot specify an audio 
> source that connects through a Universal Serial Bus (USB), because 
> Cisco Unified Communications Manager does not support USB when running 
> on VMware. VMware does, however, support internal Music On Hold.
>
> ·         A Cisco Unified Communications Manager cluster supports a 
> mix of Cisco Media Convergence Server (MCS) and Cisco Unified 
> Computing System (UCS) nodes. If you want to use the Music On Hold 
> feature with an external source (USB audio dongle), you must use an 
> MCS server for the node(s) that supply MOH from an external source.
>
>  
>
> So, it sounds like we are out of luck unless we use a physical server 
> to attach the USB adapter to.  Anyone know of any other adapter or LAN 
> device that could stream it to a multicast address that we can spoof 
> to get the phones to listen to?  Possibly something like when you have 
> the phones use a multicast address to use for remote site flash-based 
> MOH?  Not sure, just trying to think outside the box.
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>
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