[cisco-voip] Expressway MRA question

James Buchanan james.buchanan2 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 12 13:04:50 EDT 2017


Check out page 12 in this guide:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/unified-communications/expressway-series/products-installation-and-configuration-guides-list.html

Even if you return one CUCM cluster in your DNS query, ILS sorts it out via
the Home Cluster tick box.

On 12 Mar 2017 16:56, "Ahmed Abd EL-Rahman" <Ahmed.Rahman at bmbgroup.com>
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> Also if the Expressway supports working with multiple CUCM/IMP clusters,
> how can it determine to which cluster it will direct the user client
> registration request ?
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> Also as mentioned there is single DNS and single domain for the whole 4
> clusters, so how the SRV records will be added for service discovery
> specially from inside the company to direct each user to its correct
> cluster?
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> For example, this is one of the SRV records that should be added to the
> internal DNS and answers the queries with CUCM IP address: (
> _cisco-uds._tcp.*domain*.com), so how such record will work properly to
> direct each user request to its own cluster CUCM if all 4 clusters are
> having the same DNS system and same domain ?
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> Best Regards
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> Ahmed Abd EL-Rahman
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> Senior Network Engineer
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> Hi James,
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> Yes currently all the 4 clusters' users can talk to each others via
> inter-cluster trunks over WAN links.
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> Kindly if you have any documents explaining such setup please share it
> with me.
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> Appreciated.
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> BR
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> Ahmed Abd EL-Rahman
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> Senior Network Engineer
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 12, 2017, at 5:51 PM, James Buchanan <james.buchanan2 at gmail.com<
> mailto:james.buchanan2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> It is indeed possible. You use one cluster as a sort of "hub" cluster.
> Then, just make sure the users in each cluster have the Home Cluster
> parameter checked, but make sure it is only checked in one cluster. Also,
> you have to make sure you are using ILS and have peer links in IM&P between
> all the clusters. If all the Jabber users can talk to each other today in
> all the various clusters, then you're already grand for using Expressway in
> that scenario.
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> Thanks,
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> James
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> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Ahmed Abd EL-Rahman <
> Ahmed.Rahman at bmbgroup.com<mailto:Ahmed.Rahman at bmbgroup.com>> wrote:
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> Hi Gents,
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> If we have 4 standalone clusters each of them has its own CUCM and IM&P
> servers (version 11.5), I’d like to know if it’s possible to have only 1
> Expressway C and E system to serve all the 4 cluster with MRA service ?
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> Taking into consideration that all the 4 clusters are using the same DNS
> system and same domain name (company.com<http://company.com>).
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> Ahmed Abd EL-Rahman
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> Senior Network Engineer
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