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This chapter provides information about the SIP Client app for Cisco Video Surveillance 8000 Series IP cameras. This app lets an IP camera send audio to and receive audio from an external SIP client device or Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM).
The SIP Client app enables an IP camera to transmit and receive audio to and from an external SIP client device or Cisco Unified Communications Manager. The IP camera plays audio that it receives on external speakers that are connected to it. The IP camera transmits audio through its internal or external microphone.
The SIP Client app provides these operating modes:
This mode supports one connection from a SIP device to the IP camera at a time. When a SIP client device disconnects from the IP camera, the camera is ready to establish another connection.
Before you can use the SIP Client app, you must configure it on each IP camera on which it will run. To configure this app, perform the following steps.
Install the SIP Client app on the IP camera on which it will run. For information about installing apps, see your Cisco VSM documentation.
Step 1 From the IP camera web-based user interface, click Configuration in the menu bar, and then choose Applications > Package Management from the left panel.
Step 2 Click the SIPClient radio button, then click SIPClient in the Module Name column in the Package list table.
The Cisco SIP Client App configuration page appears.
Step 3 Enter appropriate values in the Cisco SIP Client App configuration page fields as described in the following table:
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Enter a time interval in seconds at which the IP camera periodically contacts the SIP client (in Standalone mode) or Cisco Unified Communications Manager (in CUCM mode) to ensure that a live connection is in place. If the IP camera detects that the connection to the SIP client or Cisco Unified Communications Manager is lost, the camera tries three times to reestablish a connection. If the connection cannot be reestablished, the SIP Client app stops automatically. Valid values are 1 through 60 (1 seconds through 1 minute). The default value is 2. |
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Used only for CUCM mode. Enter the IP address of the Cisco Unified Communications Manager server. |
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Enter the volume in decibels (dB) at which the IP camera plays on its external speakers audio that it receives from a remote SIP device or Cisco Unified Communications Manager. |
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Used only for CUCM mode. Enter the camera username that the camera uses to register with Cisco Unified Communications Manager. This value is the User ID that you configure in Cisco Unified Communications Manager as described in the “Adding and Associating an End User” section. |
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Used only for CUCM mode. Enter the camera password that the camera uses to register with Cisco Unified Communications Manager. This value is the password that you configure in Cisco Unified Communications Manager as described in the “Adding and Associating an End User” section. |
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Camera port used for the SIP Client app. Make sure that the port that you configure is not used by any other application on the IP camera. |
Step 4 Click the Save button in the Cisco SIP Client App configuration page, and then click OK in the confirmation dialog box.
If you want to reset the options in the Cisco SIP Client App configuration page to their default values, click the Reset button, click OK in the two dialog boxes that appear, click the Save button, and then click OK in the confirmation dialog box.
If you change configuration values while the SIP Client app is running, you must stop and then restart the app before the changes take effect.
You configure Cisco Unified Communications Manager for use with the SIP Client app by using the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration Console. For more detailed configuration information, see your Cisco Unified Communications Manager documentation.
This configuration involves the procedures that the following sections describe:
Adding a camera to Cisco Unified Communications Manager enables that application to support the camera. When you add a camera, you add the device as a phone. You must add each camera that will run the SIP Client app.
To add a camera to Cisco Unified Communications Manager, perform the following steps from the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration Console.
For more detailed information, see your Cisco Unified Communications Manager documentation.
Step 1 Log in to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration Console.
The Add a New Phone page appears
Step 3 Click Add New near the top left side of the page.
The Add a New Phone page appears.
Step 4 From the Phone Type drop-down list, choose Third-party SIP device (Advanced).
The Phone Configuration page appears.
Step 6 In the Device Information area, take these actions:
a. In the MAC Address field, enter the MAC address of the IP camera.
b. From the Device Pool drop-down list, choose Default.
c. From the Phone Button Template drop-down list, choose Third-party SIP Device (Advanced).
d. From the Owner User ID drop-down list, choose your Cisco Unified Communications Manager user ID.
Step 7 In the Protocol Specific Information area, take these actions:
a. From the Device Security Profile drop-down list, choose Third-party SIP Device Advanced - Standard non secure profile.
b. From the SIP Profile drop-down list, choose Standard SIP Profile.
c. Check the Media Termination Point Required check box.
d. From the Digest User drop-down list, choose the ID of the digest user.
Step 8 Click Save near the bottom of the Phone Configuration page to save and load the new phone configuration, and then click OK in the dialog box that appears.
Step 9 Click Line[1]-Add a new DN in the Association Information area on left side of the window.
The Directory Number Configuration page appears.
Step 10 In the Directory Number field near the top of the page, enter a valid four-digit directory number that is within your dial plan.
Step 11 (Optional) In the Description field, enter a description of the camera.
Step 12 (Optional) In the Alerting Name field, enter the name of the camera that appears on telephones when the camera is called.
Step 13 Click Save near the bottom of the Directory Number Configuration page to associate the directory number with the device that you added.
Step 14 Click Apply Config near the top of the screen.
Adding end user to Cisco Unified Communications Manager and associating and end user with a camera allows cameras that run the SIP Client app to register with Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Cisco recommends that you create one end user and associate that end user with the camera.
To add an end user in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, perform the following steps from the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration Console.
For more detailed information, see your Cisco Unified Communications Manager documentation.
Step 1 Choose User Managemen t > End User.
The Find and List Users page appears
Step 2 Click Add New near the top left side of the page.
The End User Configuration page appears.
Step 3 In the User ID field, enter same the four-digit directory number that you entered in Step 10 in the “Adding a Camera to Cisco Unified Communications Manager” section.
Step 4 In the Password field, enter a password that the IP camera uses to register with Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
Step 5 In the Confirm Password field, reenter the password that you entered in the Password field.
Step 6 In the Digest Credentials field, enter same password that you entered in the Password field.
Step 7 In the Confirm Digest Credentials field, reenter the password that you entered in the Digest Credentials field.
Step 8 In the Last name field, enter a name to identify the user.
Step 9 Click Save near the bottom of the End User Configuration page.
Step 10 Associate the device added with the end user by selecting a device from the Device association tab in the Device Information block.
Step 11 In the Device Information area in the End User Configuration page, click Device Association.
Step 12 Locate one or more devices that you added as described in the “Adding a Camera to Cisco Unified Communications Manager” section, click the check box that corresponds to that device, and then click Save Selected Changes at the bottom of the page.
You can repeat this step as needed.
When you run the SIP Client app, the IP camera does the following:
To run the SIP Client on an IP camera, use the start and stop functions for apps in Cisco VSM. Do not use the Run and Stop buttons that appear in the IP Camera web-based user interface.