[cisco-voip] Cisco Jabber for Windows/MAC in Phone Only Mode

[Anthony Holloway]

Hi David,

I have not completed a phone only deployment yet, but I have been reading
quite a bit of documentation (and there's a lot) on Jabber recently.  I
tend to skip over the phone only sections as it doesn't apply to me, but
since I've seen it mentioned quite a few times, I thought I'd go back in
and see what I can find for you.

To begin with, Phone Mode can be deployed with either SRV records or manual
configuration still.  You can see that in the following table:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/jabber/10_5/CJAB_BK_D6497E98_00_deployment-installation-guide-ciscojabber/CJAB_BK_D6497E98_00_deployment-installation-guide-ciscojabber_chapter_011.html#JABW_RF_RC2A6191_00

But also note that the table only lists the "recommended" methods of:
discovery and install switches. Likely because either one is scalable on a
large deployment. But, there is still the manual method which puts the
burden on the users:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/jabber/10_5/CJAB_BK_D6497E98_00_deployment-installation-guide-ciscojabber/CJAB_BK_D6497E98_00_deployment-installation-guide-ciscojabber_chapter_011.html#JABW_CN_C38385A8_00

If you did want to use the SRV method, the following link talks about it
and even gives an example with multiple CUCM's for redundancy:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/jabber/10_5/CJAB_BK_D6497E98_00_deployment-installation-guide-ciscojabber/CJAB_BK_D6497E98_00_deployment-installation-guide-ciscojabber_chapter_011.html#JABW_CN_CB9D0849_00

If you needed to know how to create the SRV records in Win2k3 DNS admin, it
would be like this:

Right click your Forward Zone name and select Other New Record to pick SRV
as the type (this will create the _tcp folder for you if not already
present).

Note that you have to manually type in the _cisco-uds as it will not be
available from the drop down.  The protocol is _tcp.

Then you provision your SRV record like the Cisco documentation suggests.
Don't forget you need a Host record for your CUCM's for the SRV record to
reference.

I hope that helps.


On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:36 AM, David Schulz <dschulz at skyline-ats.com>
wrote:

> Hi -
>
> Cisco originally had Phone Only mode (registering to CUCM version 8.x and
> above) the version 9. of Jabber (Windows only). I worked great and by only
> requiring the configuration of the TFTP, CCMCIP and CTI services. In the
> 10.x version of the Cisco Jabber… they decided to use an SRV record
> (_cisco-uds) for this. And, they have nicely decided to remove the manual
> method. There are a couple documents on what is in the SRV record, but no
> real directions on exactly what is required, or any configuration examples
> that I can find. I am using 2003 Server to build the SRV in my lab, which
> looks the way it should be. However, I don’t appears to work. Does anyone
> have Jabber 10.5) working in Phone Only mode?  Is there a configuration
> that you can share?  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Dave
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