Table Of Contents
Voice Log Translator 2.3.1 User Guide
Contents
Prerequisites for Voice Log Translator
Information About Voice Log Translator
Capabilities
User Interface
Navigation
Message Translations
How to Use Voice Log Translator to Work with Trace-Log Messages
Displaying a Message List
Filtering a Message List
Working with Message Text
Troubleshooting
Obtaining Documentation
Cisco.com
Ordering Documentation
Documentation Feedback
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Cisco Technical Support Website
Submitting a Service Request
Definitions of Service Request Severity
Obtaining Additional Publications and Information
Voice Log Translator 2.3.1 User Guide
Cisco Voice Log Translator is a Microsoft Windows software-based tool that parses and translates Cisco CallManager and Cisco Java Telephony API (JTAPI) client trace-log messages. The tool enables you to filter and organize messages and access raw message text or detailed message-text descriptions to aid in troubleshooting.
This document describes how to use Voice Log Translator.
Note
•You can access more information about Voice Log Translator—including capabilities, supported protocols, and how to download and install the latest version—from the following website:
http://www.cisco.com/partner/WWChannels/technologies/IPT/operate3.html
•You can send feedback or questions (engineers will respond as time allows) to the following e-mail address:
voice-log-translator-support@external.cisco.com
Contents
•Prerequisites for Voice Log Translator
•Information About Voice Log Translator
•How to Use Voice Log Translator to Work with Trace-Log Messages
•Obtaining Documentation
•Documentation Feedback
•Obtaining Technical Assistance
•Obtaining Additional Publications and Information
Prerequisites for Voice Log Translator
•Run—and generate system-diagnostic-interface (SDI) trace-log messages for—Cisco CallManager up to version 3.3.x.
Note It is important that you heed this prerequisite. Voice Log Translator version 2.3.1 does not reliably open message files for Cisco CallManager versions later than 3.3.x.
•Install Voice Log Translator on one of the following platforms:
–Windows 95
–Windows 98
–Windows 2000
–Windows Me
–Windows NT
–Windows XP
Note Download Voice Log Translator from the website listed previously. Although versions earlier than the current one (version 2.3.1) are listed on the website, you can download only the current one. Memory requirements for download are 128 MB.
•Install the Win32 Dynamic Linking Library for Visual Basic setup package with the following:
–MSCOMCTL.OCX
–RICHED32.DLL
–VB6STKIT.DLL
•Know the location of the folder in which your trace-log message files reside.
Information About Voice Log Translator
Voice Log Translator enables you to display, sort, and filter lists of trace-log messages—and then display associated raw or translated message texts—to aid in troubleshooting.
This section contains the following information:
•Capabilities
•User Interface
•Navigation
•Message Translations
Capabilities
The following are examples of what you can do with Voice Log Translator:
•Open trace-log files and display message lists and associated messages (see the "Displaying a Message List" section).
•Filter a trace-log message list so as to do the following (see the"Filtering a Message List" section):
–Display or exclude keepalive messages.
–Display messages for a particular call (as identified by its call reference) or for all calls involving a particular gateway IP, direction, protocol, command, message, or channel. For example, you can display all messages related to the T1 1/0:3 on gateway A.B.C.D.
–Display messages for calls with criteria that you specify.
–Display messages by call reference; for each message, show timestamp, protocol, calling number, and called number. For example, you can display all messages for a particular call leg (any protocol) or for the two legs (SCCP side and MGCP/Q.931 side) of a call.
–Display messages for calls whose gateway IP, direction, protocol, command, message, call reference, or channel contain a particular text string.
•Do the following with the text of a trace-log message (see the"Working with Message Text" section):
–Specify a level of translation.
–Copy raw or translated message text to the clipboard for export to a text file.
–Search for a specific text string in raw or translated message text across all messages.
User Interface
The Voice Log Translator user interface has a toolbar at the top and, below that, the following two display areas (Figure 1):
•Messages area—Displays a list of trace-log messages from one or more files.
•Message-translation area—Displays the raw or translated text of a highlighted message.
Figure 1 Voice Log Translator User Interface
Navigation
You navigate the Voice Log Translator interface by means of the toolbar (Figure 2).
Figure 2 Voice Log Translator Navigation: Toolbar
The procedures that follow describe how to navigate using the toolbar top line. Clicking one of the displayed choices—File, Edit, Filter, Window, and Help—opens a successive display of new choices, which the procedure also specifies (Figure 3).
Figure 3 Voice Log Translator Navigation: Successive Display of Choices
Alternatively, you can navigate using icons on the toolbar bottom line. Icons for Open, Save, Copy, Find, Customized Filter, List All CallRefs, Select Columns, and Open Folder duplicate the choices offered in the successive display mentioned above for the top line.
For example, if you are instructed to click the sequence File > Open Folder, you can achieve the same result simply by clicking the Open Folder icon.
Message Translations
Voice Log Translator allows you to view message text at any of three translation levels, and to toggle among those levels:
•Raw message (Figure 4)
•Simple translation (Figure 5)
•Detailed translation (Figure 6)
Figure 4 Voice Log Translator Raw Message
Figure 5 Voice Log Translator Simple Translation
Figure 6 Voice Log Translator Detailed Translation
How to Use Voice Log Translator to Work with Trace-Log Messages
This section contains the following information:
•Displaying a Message List
•Filtering a Message List
•Working with Message Text
Displaying a Message List
Tip You can open trace-log files and display a list of messages in the following ways:
•Display a list of messages for a set of log files (Step 2 below).
•Display a list of messages for an additional set of log files, in the same or a new pane (Step 3 below).
•Edit the message-list display (Step 4 below).
SUMMARY STEPS
1. Open Voice Log Translator
2. File > Open Folder > Open > Yes/No
3. File > Appending Open > Open > Yes/No or File > New Log Pane > Open > Yes/No
4. Edit > Select Columns > OK
5. Close files and exit Voice Log Translator
DETAILED STEPS
Step 1 Open Voice Log Translator.
Step 2 Open a set of log files as follows:
a. Click File > Open Folder.
Note If the desired log-file folder does not automatically open and display a list of filenames, click Browse, locate the folder, and click Search. (On subsequent tool use, the last-used folder automatically opens.)
b. Highlight one or more filenames (using <Ctrl> or <Shift> as needed) and click Open.
c. If a prompt asks whether or not to sort files by timestamp, click Yes or No.
Note If you click No, the additional files simply append to the end of the previous ones. Be aware that sorting by timestamp might take some time: A single file typically takes just seconds but many large files can take a minute or more.
Step 3 Open an additional set of log files as follows:
a. Do one of the following:
•To open at the end of the existing open message-list pane, click File > Appending Open.
•To open in a new message-list pane, click File > New Log Pane.
b. Highlight one or more filenames and click Open.
c. If a prompt asks whether or not to sort files by timestamp, click Yes or No.
Step 4 Edit the display appearance as follows:
a. To adjust column widths for optimal viewing, click and move column separators.
b. To display or hide columns, do the following:
1. Click Edit > Select Columns. (Or click the Select Columns icon.)
2. Check and uncheck columns as needed (Figure 7).
3. Click OK.
Figure 7 Displaying or Hiding Columns
Step 5 When you are done, do the following:
a. Close any active message-list panes by clicking File > Close.
b. Exit Voice Log Translator by clicking File > Exit.
Filtering a Message List
Tip You can filter a trace-log message list so as to do the following:
•Display or exclude keepalive messages (Step 2 below).
•Display messages for a particular call (as identified by its call reference) or for all calls involving a particular gateway IP, direction, protocol, command, message, or channel (Step 3 below).
•Display messages for calls with criteria that you specify—useful if you know the parameters and prefer to enter them directly instead of constructing filters by selecting messages on the messages window (Step 4 below).
•Display messages by call reference (Step 5 below):
–For all calls, sorted by call reference
–For one particular call (as identified by its call reference)
•Display messages for calls whose gateway IP, direction, protocol, command, message, call reference, or channel contain a particular text string (Step 6 below).
SUMMARY STEPS
1. Display message list
2. Include KeepAlive Message or Exclude KeepAlive Message
3. Filter > Log Filter > Selected column-heading
4. Filter > Log Filter > Customized Filter
5. Filter > Log Filter > List All CallRefs; optionally, also Apply
6. Search
7. Close files and exit Voice Log Translator
DETAILED STEPS
Step 1 Display the desired message list (see the "Displaying a Message List" section).
Step 2 Specify whether or not to display keepalive messages by toggling between the following choices: Include KeepAlive Message and Exclude KeepAlive Message.
Step 3 To filter so as to display messages for a particular call (as identified by its call reference) or for all calls involving a particular gateway IP, direction, protocol, command, message, or channel, do the following:
a. Highlight a single message with the desired gateway IP, direction, protocol, command, message, call reference, or channel.
b. Click Filter > Log Filter > Selected column-heading (Figure 8). (Or just click the desired column heading.) The selected column heading displays in parentheses.
c. Repeat as needed to further filter by a second or subsequent column heading.
Note To disable the filter, unclick the column headings in parentheses.
Figure 8 Displaying Only Those Messages for a Particular Gateway IP
Step 4 To define your own customized filter—useful if you know the parameters and prefer to enter them directly instead of constructing filters by selecting messages on the messages window—do the following:
a. Click Filter > Log Filter > Customized Filter. (Or click the Customized Filter icon.)
b. Check and uncheck the displayed conditions as needed and assign a value for each condition.
c. Click Run.
Note To clear all filters, click Clear. To reload the current filter, click Current.
Step 5 To filter so as to display messages by call reference, do the following:
a. Click Filter > Log Filter > List All CallRefs.
A new message list displays all messages, sorted by protocol and call reference. It also shows associated calling party and called party.
b. To further filter so as to display messages for just a single call (as identified by its call reference), do the following:
1. From the new message list, highlight a message with the desired call reference.
2. Click Apply.
The message list redisplays with only those messages for that call reference.
Note This option is equivalent to Step 3 above if you click Filter > Log Filter > Selected CallRef.
Step 6 To filter so as to display only those messages for calls whose gateway IP, protocol, command, message, call reference, or channel contains a particular text string, do the following:
a. In the Message Translation area, check the small check box and type the desired text string.
b. Click Search (Figure 9).
Note To clear the filter and restore the full list of messages, uncheck the check box.
Figure 9 Displaying a List of Messages That Contain a Particular Text String
Step 7 When you are done, do the following:
a. Close any active message-list panes by clicking File > Close.
b. Exit Voice Log Translator by clicking File > Exit.
Working with Message Text
Tip You can do the following with the text of a trace-log message:
•Specify a level of translation (Step 2 below).
•Copy message text to the clipboard (Step 3 below).
•Search for a specific message-text string (Step 4 below).
SUMMARY STEPS
1. Display message list
2. Raw Message, Simple Translation, or Detailed Translation
3. Edit > Copy
4. Edit > Find
5. Close files and exit Voice Log Translator
DETAILED STEPS
Step 1 Display the desired message list (see the "Displaying a Message List" section).
Step 2 Specify a level of translation by toggling among the following choices: Raw Message, Simple Translation, and Detailed Translation (see samples of each in the "Message Translations" section).
Step 3 To copy a raw or translated message to the clipboard, do the following:
a. Click Edit > Copy. (Or click the Copy icon.)
b. Highlight the text that you want to copy.
c. Right-click and, on the popup menu, click Copy.
Step 4 To search for a specific text string in all of the messages listed in a pane, do the following:
a. Click Edit > Find. (Or click the Find icon.)
b. Type a text string.
c. Click Up or Down.
d. Click Find Next (Figure 10). Text-string matches display in red.
e. Repeat as needed to find additional instances.
Figure 10 Searching for a Specific Text String
Step 5 When you are done, do the following:
a. Close any active message-list panes by clicking File > Close.
b. Exit Voice Log Translator by clicking File > Exit.
Troubleshooting
Symptom A message displays suggesting that your log files are unsupported. The pane closes.
Possible Cause You are running an older, unsupported version of Cisco CallManager.
Recommended Action Upgrade (or downgrade) Cisco CallManager to a supported version. (See the "Prerequisites for Voice Log Translator" section.)
Symptom A message similar to the following displays:
Run-time error `339': Component `comdlg32.ocx' or one of its dependencies not
correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid.
Possible Cause The Voice Log Translator executable (.exe) file and two required .ocx files are missing or not in the same folder. You may have tried to start Voice Log Translator directly from the WinZip folder.
Recommended Action Unzip all three files into the same folder.
Symptom You can display raw but not simple-translation or detailed-translation messages.
Possible Cause The messages or their protocols are unsupported.
Recommended Action None.
Symptom The displayed message list shows only those calls at the beginning or end of a call flow.
Possible Cause Calls in the call flow span multiple log files.
Recommended Action Display the first log file in the call flow. Then append subsequent log files. (See the "Displaying a Message List" section.)
Obtaining Documentation
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Obtaining Technical Assistance
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Submitting a Service Request
Using the online TAC Service Request Tool is the fastest way to open S3 and S4 service requests. (S3 and S4 service requests are those in which your network is minimally impaired or for which you require product information.) After you describe your situation, the TAC Service Request Tool automatically provides recommended solutions. If your issue is not resolved using the recommended resources, your service request will be assigned to a Cisco TAC engineer. The TAC Service Request Tool is located at http://www.cisco.com/techsupport/servicerequest.
For S1 or S2 service requests or if you do not have Internet access, contact the Cisco TAC by telephone. (S1 or S2 service requests are those in which your production network is down or severely degraded.) Cisco TAC engineers are assigned immediately to S1 and S2 service requests to help keep your business operations running smoothly.
To open a service request by telephone, use one of the following numbers:
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For a complete list of Cisco TAC contacts, go to http://www.cisco.com/techsupport/contacts.
Definitions of Service Request Severity
To ensure that all service requests are reported in a standard format, Cisco has established severity definitions.
•Severity 1 (S1)—Your network is "down," or there is a critical impact to your business operations. You and Cisco will commit all necessary resources around the clock to resolve the situation.
•Severity 2 (S2)—Operation of an existing network is severely degraded, or significant aspects of your business operation are negatively affected by inadequate performance of Cisco products. You and Cisco will commit full-time resources during normal business hours to resolve the situation.
•Severity 3 (S3)—Operational performance of your network is impaired, but most business operations remain functional. You and Cisco will commit resources during normal business hours to restore service to satisfactory levels.
•Severity 4 (S4)—You require information or assistance with Cisco product capabilities, installation, or configuration. There is little or no effect on your business operations.
Obtaining Additional Publications and Information
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