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The Cisco Unified Communications Manager Call Detail Records Administration Guide describes how to configure call detail records (CDRs) and call management records (CMRs) and provides examples of these records. Use this guide in conjunction with the following documents:
CDR Analysis and Reporting Administration Guide—This document describes how to configure and use Cisco Unified Communications Manager CDR Analysis and Reporting (CAR), a tool that is used to create user, system, device, and billing reports.
Cisco Unified Serviceability Administration Guide—This document provides descriptions and procedures for configuring alarms, traces, SNMP, and so on, through Cisco Unified Serviceability.
Real-Time Monitoring Tool Administration Guide —This document describes how to use Real-Time Monitoring Tool (RTMT), a tool that allows you to monitor many aspects of the system (critical services, alerts, performance counters, and so on).
Cisco Unity Connection Serviceability Administration Guide—This document provides descriptions and procedures for using alarms, traces, reports, and so on, through Cisco Unity Connection Serviceability.
Audience
The Cisco Unified Communications Manager Call Detail Records Administration Guide provides information for administrators who are responsible for managing and supporting CDRs. Network engineers, system administrators, or telecom engineers use this guide to learn the content and structure of CDR and CMR records to import them into billing programs and other third-party programs. CAR administrators, managers, and end users use this guide to analyze the information that is generated in certain CAR reports.
Organization
The following table shows how this guide is organized:
See the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Documentation Guide for additional Cisco Unified Communications Manager documentation. The following URL shows an example of the path to the documentation guide:
Arguments for which you supply values are in italics.
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Elements in square brackets are optional.
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Alternative keywords are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars.
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Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars.
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A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string or the string will include the quotation marks.
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Terminal sessions and information the system displays are in screen font.
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Information you must enter is in boldface screen font.
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Arguments for which you supply values are in italic screen font.
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The symbol ^ represents the key labeled Control—for example, the key combination ^D in a screen display means hold down the Control key while you press the D key.
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Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, are in angle brackets.
Notes use the following conventions:
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Tips use the following conventions:
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