[cisco-voip] UC service profile vs Jabber Config

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

I guess it all depends on your scenario.

We have Active Directory and LDAP on campus. CUCM is sync'ed to Active Directory to ensure compatibility. But our authoritative (telephone) directory is LDAP. I _could_ configure LDAP as the contact directory, but LDAP is not supported with MRA (see notes below). If I were to use LDAP on campus and Active Directory/UDS off-campus (MRA) the user experience would be different. Unfortunately, the two directories are not _fully_ sync'ed. So we chose to use UDS for both on-prem and off-prem.

With respect to BDI/EDI etc, those as far as I know are not supported with MRA/UDS, so you could deploy on-prem, but wouldn't work off-prem.

Now, apparently, there is an LDAP proxy available in v11 and higher - but I'm not sure exactly how this works yet. I'm hoping it will allow us to revert to using LDAP as our contact lookup database.

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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure
Computing and Communications Services (CCS)
University of Guelph

519-824-4120 Ext 56354
lelio at uoguelph.ca
www.uoguelph.ca/ccs
Room 037, Animal Science and Nutrition Building
Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1

From: cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ben Amick
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 2:42 PM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] UC service profile vs Jabber Config

So, my brain is having an issue remember the difference between when and why you would use the UC service profile to set LDAP config vs just configuring directory services through Jabber-config.xml?

Also, I've never really understood why one would choose to use LDAP/BDI/EDI/CDI/UDS from one to the other. From what I understand, you would use UDS or CDI depending on version for connecting to UCM for directory services, and for directly connecting to LDAP you'd use BDI or EDI, but I'm unsure if there's any reasons above that. What do you all feel like for preference between connecting to UCM or direct to LDAP for services?

Ben Amick
Telecom Analyst


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