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You can use the moh from router hack for remote sites.<br>
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Otherwise, yes, an MCS is required.<br>
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/Wes<br>
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Kevin Damisch wrote:
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  <p class="MsoNormal">What options are available to have an external
MOH source when running CUCM 8.x in VMware?  The features and services
guide says:<o:p></o:p></p>
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 style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">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.
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  </span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="SC39303108">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.</span><span class="SC39303108"><span
 style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal">Kevin<o:p></o:p></p>
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