Table Of Contents
External Route Plan Wizard
Creating an External Route Plan
Setting the Routing Options
Providing Tenant Information
Entering Location Information
Selecting Gateways
Providing Gateway Information
Generating the External Route Plan
Confirming the External Route Plan
Finishing the External Route Plan
Deleting an External Route Plan
External Route Plan Wizard
The external route plan wizard is a tool that allows Cisco CallManager administrators to quickly configure external routing to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), Private Branch Exchanges (PBXs), or other Cisco CallManager systems. This tool creates a single tenant, multi-location, partitioned route plan for the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) area. The route plan generated by the external route plan wizard includes the following elements:
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route filters
•route groups
•route lists
•route patterns
•partitions
•calling search spaces
•calling party digit translations and transformations
•access code manipulation
Use the following procedures to set up a route plan with the external route plan wizard:
•Creating an External Route Plan
•Setting the Routing Options
•Providing Tenant Information
•Entering Location Information
•Selecting Gateways
•Providing Gateway Information
•Generating the External Route Plan
•Confirming the External Route Plan
•Finishing the External Route Plan
•Deleting an External Route Plan
Creating an External Route Plan
The following procedure describes how to begin to create an external route plan.
Before You Begin
All gateways must be defined before using the external route plan wizard. Select Device > Gateway or Device > MGCP in the menu bar to set up new gateways.
Procedure
Step 1 Open Cisco CallManager Administration.
Step 2 Select Route Plan > External Route Plan Wizard in the menu bar.
Step 3 Click Next on the External Route Plan Wizard introduction page to create an external route plan.
Related Procedures
•Setting the Routing Options
•Providing Tenant Information
•Entering Location Information
•Selecting Gateways
•Providing Gateway Information
•Generating the External Route Plan
•Confirming the External Route Plan
•Finishing the External Route Plan
•Deleting an External Route Plan
Setting the Routing Options
The following procedure describes how to set routing options for the external route plan.
Procedure
Step 1 Check the boxes for Local call fallback, Toll bypass fallback, Long distance fallback, International call fallback, and Equal access suppression as appropriate.
Step 2 Enter the access code for external calls to the PSTN or a PBX in the "Access code for local and long distance calls" field. (Many systems use 9 for external calls.)
Step 3 Enter the access code for internal Cisco CallManager dialing in the "Access code for extensions behind a connected PBX" field. (Many systems use 8 for internal calls.)
Step 4 Click Next.
Related Procedures
•Creating an External Route Plan
•Providing Tenant Information
•Entering Location Information
•Selecting Gateways
•Providing Gateway Information
•Generating the External Route Plan
•Confirming the External Route Plan
•Finishing the External Route Plan
•Deleting an External Route Plan
Providing Tenant Information
The following procedure describes how to add tenant information for the external route plan.
Procedure
Step 1 Enter the tenant name in the Tenant Name field. (This is generally the name of the organization for which the route plan is being built.)
Step 2 Enter the number of geographical locations associated with the organization in the "Number of physical locations in the entire system" field. This field should reflect the all Cisco CallManagers in the system that use unique area codes. The default number of locations is two.
Step 3 Click Next.
Related Procedures
•Creating an External Route Plan
•Setting the Routing Options
•Entering Location Information
•Selecting Gateways
•Providing Gateway Information
•Generating the External Route Plan
•Confirming the External Route Plan
•Finishing the External Route Plan
•Deleting an External Route Plan
Entering Location Information
The Location Entry page provides information for the number of locations specified on the Tenant Information page. The following procedure describes how to add location information for the external route plan.
Procedure
Step 1 Enter the name of the location in the Location Name field if it is different from the one shown.
Step 2 Enter the local area codes available at this location in the Local Area Code(s) field. (Local area codes are all area codes in the calling area that are not considered to belong distance calls.)
If your area includes more than one local (too free) area code, use commas to separate the area codes in the list.
Step 3 Enter the 7- or 10-digit number that is the main number for the organization at this location.
Step 4 Specify the number of digits required for local calls at this location.
Step 5 Repeat Steps 1 through 4 to add location information for other locations.
Related Procedures
•Creating an External Route Plan
•Setting the Routing Options
•Providing Tenant Information
•Selecting Gateways
•Providing Gateway Information
•Generating the External Route Plan
•Confirming the External Route Plan
•Finishing the External Route Plan
•Deleting an External Route Plan
Selecting Gateways
The following procedure describes how to select gateways for the external route plan.
Caution Gateways that are being used by existing route groups or route patterns must not be selected in the following procedure.
Procedure
Step 1 Check the boxes for all the gateways associated with this route plan in all locations.
Step 2 Click Select All if you want to include all the gateways defined in the system.
Step 3 Click Select None if you have selected several gateways and want to deselect all of your selections.
Note You must select at least one gateway before continuing with this procedure.
Step 4 Click Next.
Related Procedures
•Creating an External Route Plan
•Setting the Routing Options
•Providing Tenant Information
•Entering Location Information
•Providing Gateway Information
•Generating the External Route Plan
•Finishing the External Route Plan
•Deleting an External Route Plan
Providing Gateway Information
The following procedure describes how to add gateway information for the gateways in the external route plan.
Procedure
Step 1 Select the location of the gateway in the "Location of the gateway" drop-down list box.
Step 2 Select the type of connection for this gateway in the "Type of carrier to which the gateway is connected" drop-down list box.
Step 3 Specify the calling number that will be sent to the adjacent switch when a call is routed through this gateway.
Step 4 Check the Discard dialed access code... check box if this gateway is connected is a PBX that does not require the Cisco CallManager access code.
Step 5 Enter the range of directory numbers or extension numbers associated with the adjacent PBX. Use commas to separate multiple entries. Use the X wildcard character to specify ranges of digits.
Step 6 Click Next.
Step 7 Repeat Steps 1 through 6 to add gateway information for the additional gateways.
Related Procedures
•Creating an External Route Plan
•Setting the Routing Options
•Providing Tenant Information
•Entering Location Information
•Selecting Gateways
•Generating the External Route Plan
•Confirming the External Route Plan
•Finishing the External Route Plan
•Deleting an External Route Plan
Generating the External Route Plan
The following procedure describes how to generate the external route plan.
Procedure
Step 1 Click Next to generate the external route plan.
Step 2 Click Cancel to prevent the external route plan wizard from generating this route plan.
Note If you click Cancel, all data associated with the current route plan will be discarded. This action cannot be undone. The information must be re-entered.
Related Procedures
•Creating an External Route Plan
•Setting the Routing Options
•Providing Tenant Information
•Entering Location Information
•Selecting Gateways
•Providing Gateway Information
•Confirming the External Route Plan
•Finishing the External Route Plan
•Deleting an External Route Plan
Confirming the External Route Plan
The following procedure describes how to confirm an external route plan.
Procedure
Step 1 Check the external route plan wizard status report to ensure that the route plan contains the proper elements.
Step 2 Click Next to complete the external route plan.
Note We strongly recommend that you print the status report for future reference.
If you determine that the external route plan is incorrect based on the information shown in the status report, proceed to the final page of the external route plan wizard. The final page allows you to delete the entire route plan, if needed.
Related Procedures
•Creating an External Route Plan
•Setting the Routing Options
•Providing Tenant Information
•Entering Location Information
•Selecting Gateways
•Providing Gateway Information
•Finishing the External Route Plan
•Deleting an External Route Plan
Finishing the External Route Plan
The following procedure describes how to finish creating an external route plan.
Procedure
Step 1 Click Finish to complete the external route plan if the information shown on the external route plan wizard status report is correct.
Step 2 Click Delete External Route Plan to remove all data generated by the external route plan wizard if the information shown on the status report is incorrect.
Related Procedures
•Creating an External Route Plan
•Setting the Routing Options
•Providing Tenant Information
•Entering Location Information
•Selecting Gateways
•Providing Gateway Information
•Confirming the External Route Plan
•Deleting an External Route Plan
Deleting an External Route Plan
The following procedure describes how to delete an external route plan.
If any element generated by the external route plan wizard is being used in the system (for example, if Cisco IP Phones belong to a generated partition), the delete function will fail. If generated elements are used, the system components that are using those elements must be moved to non-generated elements before using the delete function.
Warning This procedure deletes all data that has been generated by the external route plan wizard. This action cannot be undone. All external route plan information must be re-entered.
Procedure
Step 1 Open Cisco CallManager Administration.
Step 2 Select Route Plan > External Route Plan Wizard in the menu bar.
Step 3 Click Delete External Route Plan to remove all data generated by the external route plan wizard.
Related Procedures
•Creating an External Route Plan
•Setting the Routing Options
•Providing Tenant Information
•Entering Location Information
•Selecting Gateways
•Providing Gateway Information
•Generating the External Route Plan
•Confirming the External Route Plan
•Finishing the External Route Plan
