Troubleshooting with Prime Collaboration Assurance

Troubleshooting with Prime Collaboration Assurance

Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution utilizes Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance for diagnostics and troubleshooting activities. This chapter provides the tools for performing these activities.

Information on troubleshooting Prime Collaboration Assurance is maintained on a Wiki site at: Troubleshooting Cisco Prime Collaboration Assurance.

This is the central troubleshooting resource for Cisco Prime Collaboration and contains troubleshooting information for both Assurance and Provisioning (note that Provisioning is not implemented by HCS.)

Components Description
Voice Endpoints

Identifies issues that are related to Unified Communications phone network

Phone Status Test

Monitors reachability of key phones in the network

Synthetic Test

Checks availability of voice applications

IP SLA Voice Tests

Monitors the response time and availability of multiprotocol networks on both end-to-end and hop-by-hop basis

Create a Batch Test

Verifies the health of the voice network

Phone Tests—Batch and On Demand Tests

Controls the real phones in the network and tests the various call types

Audio Phone Features Test

Displays the phone tests summary for all the Unified CM nodes

CME Diagnostics

Displays information about Cisco Unified CME devices and associated Cisco Unity Express devices

Video Endpoints
Troubleshooting Workflow

Starts troubleshooting workflow for a session from the 360° Session View in the Session Diagnostics page

Troubleshoot Data Analysis

Analyzes the path between two endpoints and provides the data for troubleshoot

Export Troubleshooting Data

Enables to export the troubleshooting data

Cisco Mediatrace

Isolates and troubleshoots network degradation problems for data streams

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Cross-Launch

Performs network diagnosis using the Infrastructure applications
Collect Logs Collects call logs to identify faults in the calls

Log Collection Center or Device Log Collector

Collects call logs from the Device Log Collector

Set the Trace Levels

Sets the trace level for each component of the devices

Log Collection Template

Collects logs of different devices and different components together

Collect Call Logs

Enables on-demand log collection

Analyze Call Signaling Determines the call failure reason
Supported Call Flows
Create a Call Ladder Diagram Creates a call ladder diagram for a specific message.
Filter a Message in the Call Ladder Diagram Filters a message in the call ladder diagram
Understand a Call Ladder Diagram Visualizes the SIP signaling for the selected call

PCA Endpoints Showing in the Wrong Clusters

Symptoms: The endpoints don't show up in the correct clusters in the Device Inventory of PCA.

Resolution: We recommend upgrading to the following component versions:

  • PCA 11.6 and above

  • HCM-F 11.5(1)SU1 and above

  • Unified CDM 11.5(1)