[cisco-voip] IM&P, Jabber, Presence Redundancy Groups, Assigned Presence Server

[Anthony Holloway]

All,

*My specific environment is*
CUCM 11.0(1a)SU1
IM&P 11.0(1)
Jabber for Windows 11.5(2)

Clustering over the WAN with local failover
2x CUCM nodes and 2x IM&P nodes in DC1 (east coast)
2x CUCM nodes and 2x IM&P nodes in DC2 (west coast)

*The Challenge*
I need to *easily* assign users to the proper Presence Redundancy Group,
based on geographic region of the user.

*My Thoughts*
First off, I needed to change the *CUCM > Enterprise Parameters > User
Assignment Mode for Presence Server* setting to *None*, so that if someone
clicks the *CUCM > User Management > Assign Presence Users > Rebalance
Users* button, it doesn't destroy the geographic assignments I'll have
worked so hard to maintain.

Second, I know that the *CUCM > User Management > Assign Presence
Users *setting
takes precedence over the *CUCM > User Management > User Settings
> Service Profile > IM and Presence Profile*.  Otherwise, I'd just assign
users to *Service Profiles* by way of *Feature Group Templates* assigned to
different *LDAP Directory* sync agreements.

Third, *BAT > Users > Update Users > Query* has very little fields to
filter on.  How hard would it be to add a few more fields in here Cisco?
There's just no way this is useful.  *BAT > Users > Update Users > Custom
File* has promise, but because of its mandatory User Template usage, it'll
need some careful testing with the Ignore Fields option.  I'm not excited
about that method, unless one of you calms my fears.

What I would like to ask the group is, how are you doing this, or how would
you suggest doing this?  I.e., Your process to assign users, both existing
in the system today, and newly synced from LDAP, to their geographic IM&P
nodes and therefore Presence Redundancy Groups?  I'm not quite looking for
a SQL query method, or an AXL method, something a operations person could
manage through the GUI.

Thanks.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-voip/attachments/20160425/d4f85585/attachment.html>