Contents

• Preface
• Purpose
• Audience
• Organization
• Related documentation
• Product naming conventions
• Conventions
• Obtaining documentation and service request
• Documentation feedback

Preface

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• Purpose
• Audience
• Organization
• Related documentation
• Product naming conventions
• Conventions
• Obtaining documentation and service request
• Documentation feedback

Purpose

This guide describes pre-installation requirements and issues to address in preparing for a Cisco Unified Intelligent Contact Management (Unified ICME) installation. It does not discuss, for example, pre-installation planning for Unified ICME multichannel software or for Cisco Unified Contact Center and its components such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified Communications Manager or Cisco Unified IP IVR (Unified IP IVR)). For information on Cisco Unified multichannel software, see the documentation for Cisco Unified E-Mail Interaction Manager (Unified EIM), Cisco Unified Web Interaction Manager (Unified WIM) and Cisco Media Blender (CMB). For Unified ICME, see the relevant documentation.

Audience

This guide is intended for contact center managers, system support personnel, and plant engineers who are planning and preparing contact center sites for a Unified ICM system installation. Readers should be familiar with contact center site planning and preparation issues. They should also have a basic understanding of the Unified ICM system and the components that are installed as part of the system.

Organization

This document is organized as follows:

Pre-installation planning overview	Provides an overview of the Unified ICME pre-installation planning process. This chapter includes a pre-installation document roadmap, which suggests an order to follow in using the Unified ICM pre-installation planning guides.
Cisco Unified ICME overview	Describes the role of the Unified ICM software within the Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE). This chapter also reviews the main Unified ICM software features.
IXC overview	Describes how to plan for access to the carrier's intelligent network service. This chapter includes an overview of Unified ICME/IXC interaction and a discussion of Unified ICM -Network Interface Controller (NIC) fault tolerance.
Switch overview	Provides an overview of Unified ICM PG-to-peripheral interaction.
Peripheral Gateway configurations	Describes the options for configuring Peripheral Gateways in the Unified ICME.
CTI planning	Describes the pre-installation planning for CTI, including reviewing CTI Server communications and platform options; becoming familiar with the desktop options; estimating CTI message traffic; planning fault tolerance for the CTI Server; and reviewing ACD support for client control and third-party call control.
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems	Describes the pre-installation planning tasks for the Unified IVR option, including reviewing the options for integrating IVRs into the Unified ICME system, determining if any IVR programming or application development is necessary, and reviewing the PG platform requirements for Unified IVR.
ICM Gateway SQL planning	Describes the pre-installation planning tasks for the Unified ICM Application Gateway and Unified ICM Gateway SQL options, including preparing host systems and databases; reviewing fault tolerance issues; and planning for data transfer (in the case of Gateway SQL).
ICM Platform planning	Describes how to determine the numbers and types of Unified ICM nodes you will need.
Datacom requirements	Describes how to prepare network facilities for an Unified ICM system installation, such as determining the requirements for visible and private networking, allocating IP addresses, and ordering any required network hardware.
Site Preparation	Presents a brief list of basic considerations for site preparation.
IP address worksheets	Provides worksheets you can use to record IP addresses for the visible and private networks.

Related documentation

Documentation for Cisco Unified ICM/Contact Center Enterprise & Hosted, as well as related documentation, is accessible from Cisco.com at: http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/psa/default.html.

Related documentation includes the documentation sets for Cisco CTI Object Server (CTI OS), Cisco Agent Desktop (CAD), Cisco Agent Desktop - Browser Edition (CAD-BE), Cisco Unified Contact Center Management Portal, Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal (CVP), Cisco Unified IP IVR, Cisco Unified Intelligence Center, and Cisco Support Tools. The following list provides more information.

• For documentation for the Cisco Unified Contact Center products mentioned above, go to http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/psa/default.html, click Voice and Unified Communications, then click Customer Collaboration, then click Cisco Unified Contact Center Products or Cisco Unified Voice Self-Service Products, then click the product or option you are interested in.
• For troubleshooting tips for these Cisco Unified Contact Center products mentioned above, go to http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Category:Troubleshooting, then click the product/option you are interested in.
• Documentation for Cisco Unified Communications Manager is accessible from: http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/psa/default.html.
• Technical Support documentation and tools are accessible from: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/support/index.html.
• The Product Alert tool is accessible from (login required): http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/Support/FieldNoticeTool/field-notice.
• For information on the Cisco software support methodology, refer to Software Release and Support Methodology: ICM/IPCC available at (login required): http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/sw/custcosw/ps1844/prod_bulletins_list.html.
• For a detailed list of language localizations, refer to the Cisco Unified ICM/Contact Center Product and System Localization Matrix available at the bottom of the following page: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/custcosw/ps1001/prod_technical_reference_list.html.

Product naming conventions

In this release, the product names defined in the table below have changed. The New Name (long version) is reserved for the first instance of that product name and in all headings. The New Name (short version) is used for subsequent instances of the product name.

Note	This document uses the naming conventions provided in each GUI, which means that in some cases the old product name is in use.

Old Product Name	New Name (long version)	New Name (short version)
Cisco IPCC Enterprise Edition	Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise	Unified CCE
Cisco System IPCC Enterprise Edition	Cisco Unified System Contact Center Enterprise	Unified SCCE
Cisco IPCC Hosted Edition	Cisco Unified Contact Center Hosted	Unified CCH
Cisco Intelligent Contact Management (ICM) Enterprise Edition	Cisco Unified Intelligent Contact Management Enterprise	Unified ICME
Cisco Intelligent Contact Management (ICM) Hosted Edition	Cisco Unified Intelligent Contact Management Hosted	Unified ICMH
Cisco CallManager/Cisco Unified CallManager	Cisco Unified Communications Manager	Unified CM

Conventions

This manual uses the following conventions:

Convention	Description
boldface font	Boldface font is used to indicate commands, such as user entries, keys, buttons, and folder and submenu names. For example: Choose Edit > Find. Click Finish.
italic font	Italic font is used to indicate the following: To introduce a new term; for example: A skill group is a collection of agents who share similar skills. For emphasis; for example: Do not use the numerical naming convention. A syntax value that the user must replace; for example: IF (condition, true-value, false-value) A book title; for example: Refer to the Cisco CRS Installation Guide.
window font	Window font, such as Courier, is used for the following: Text as it appears in code or that the window displays; for example: <html><title>Cisco Systems,Inc. </title></html> Navigational text when selecting menu options; for example: ICM Configuration Manager > Tools > ExplorerTools > Agent Explorer
< >	Angle brackets are used to indicate the following: For arguments where the context does not allow italic, such as ASCII output. A character string that the user enters but that does not appear on the window such as a password.

Obtaining documentation and service request

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