Local Gateway configuration task flow

There are two options to configure the Local Gateway for your Webex Calling trunk:

  • Registration-based trunk

  • Certificate-based trunk

Use the task flow either under the Registration-based Local Gateway or Certificate-based Local Gateway to configure Local Gateway for your Webex Calling trunk. See Get started with Local Gateway for more information on different trunk types. Perform the following steps on the Local Gateway itself, using the Command Line Interface (CLI). We use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) transport to secure the trunk and Secure Real-time Protocol (SRTP) to secure the media between the Local Gateway and Webex Calling.

Before you begin

  • Understand the premises-based Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and Local Gateway (LGW) requirements for Webex Calling. See Cisco Preferred Architecture for Webex Calling for more information.

  • This article assumes that a dedicated Local Gateway platform is in place with no existing voice configuration. If you modify an existing PSTN gateway or Local Gateway enterprise deployment to use as the Local Gateway function for Webex Calling, then pay careful attention to the configuration. Ensure that you don't interrupt the existing call flows and functionality because of the changes that you make.

  • Create a trunk in the Control Hub and assign it to the location. See Configure trunks, route groups, and dial plans for Webex Calling for more information.


 
The procedures contain links to command reference documentation where you can learn more about the individual command options. All command reference links go to the Webex Managed Gateways Command Reference unless stated otherwise (in which case, the command links go to Cisco IOS Voice Command Reference). You can access all these guides at Cisco Unified Border Element Command References.

For information on the third-party SBCs, refer to the respective product reference documentation.


 

To configure TDM interfaces for PSTN call legs on the Cisco TDM-SIP Gateways, see Configuring ISDN PRI.

Before you begin

  • Ensure that the following baseline platform configuration that you configure are set up according to policies and procedures of your organization:

    • NTPs

    • ACLs

    • Enable passwords

    • Primary password

    • IP routing

    • IP Addresses, and so on

  • You require a minimum supported release of Cisco IOS XE 16.12 or IOS-XE 17.3 for all Local Gateway deployments.


 

Only CUBE supports the registration-based Local Gateway; no other SBCs from third-parties are supported.

1

Ensure that you assign any Layer 3 interfaces have valid and routable IP addresses:

interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
description Interface facing PSTN and/or CUCM
ip address 192.168.80.14 255.255.255.0!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
description Interface facing Webex Calling
ip address 192.168.43.197 255.255.255.0

2

Preconfigure a primary key for the password using the following commands, before you use in the credentials and shared secrets. You encrypt the Type 6 passwords using AES cipher and user-defined primary key.

conf t
key config-key password-encrypt Password123
password encryption aes

3

Configure IP name server to enable DNS lookup and ping to ensure that server is reachable. The Local Gateway uses DNS to resolve Webex Calling proxy addresses:

conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
ip name-server 8.8.8.8
end

4

Enable TLS 1.2 Exclusivity and a default placeholder trustpoint:

  1. Create a placeholder PKI trustpoint and call it sampleTP.

  2. Assign the trustpoint as the default signaling trustpoint under sip-ua.


     

    Ensure that a cn-san-validate server establishes the Local Gateway connection only if the outbound proxy that you configure on tenant 200 (described later) matches with the CN-SAN list that you receive from the server.

    You require the crypto trustpoint for TLS to work. Although you do not require a local client certificate (for example, mTLS) set up for the connection.

  3. Enable v1.2 exclusivity to disable TLS v1.0 and v1.1.

  4. Set tcp-retry count to 1000 (5-msec multiples = 5 seconds).

  5. Set timers connection to establish TLS <wait-timer in sec>. Range is in 5–20 seconds and the default is 20 seconds. (LGW takes 20 seconds to detect the TLS connection failure before it attempts to establish a connection to the next available Webex Calling access SBC. The CLI allows the admin to change the value to accommodate network conditions and detect connection failures with the Access SBC much faster).


     

    Cisco IOS XE 17.3.2 and later version is applicable.

configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
crypto pki trustpoint sampleTP
revocation-check crl
exit

sip-ua
crypto signaling default trustpoint sampleTP cn-san-validate server
transport tcp tls v1.2
tcp-retry 1000
end

5

Update the Local Gateway trust Pool:

The default trustpool bundle doesn't include the "DigiCert Root CA" or "IdenTrust Commercial" certificates that you need for validating the server-side certificate during TLS connection establishment to Webex Calling.

Download the latest “Cisco Trusted Core Root Bundle” from http://www.cisco.com/security/pki/ to update the trustpool bundle.

  1. Check if the DigiCert Root CA and IdenTrust Commercial certificates exist:

    show crypto pki trustpool | include DigiCert

  2. If the DigiCert Root CA and IdenTrust Commercial certificates doesn't exist, update as follows:

    configure terminal
    Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
    crypto pki trustpool import clean url http://www.cisco.com/security/pki/trs/ios_core.p7b
    Reading file from http://www.cisco.com/security/pki/trs/ios_core.p7b
    Loading http://www.cisco.com/security/pki/trs/ios_core.p7b 
    % PEM files import succeeded.
    end
    


     

    Alternatively, you can download the certificate bundle and install from a local server or Local Gateway flash memory.

    For example:

    crypto pki trustpool import clean url flash:ios_core.p7b
  3. Verify:

    show crypto pki trustpool | include DigiCert
    cn=DigiCert Global Root CA
    o=DigiCert Inc
    cn=DigiCert Global Root CA
    o=DigiCert Inc
    

    show crypto pki trustpool | include IdenTrust Commercial
    cn=IdenTrust Commercial Root CA 1
    cn=IdenTrust Commercial Root CA 1

Before you begin

Ensure that you complete the steps in the Control Hub to create a location and add a trunk for that location. In the following example, you obtain the information from the Control Hub.
1

Enter the following commands to turn on the Local Gateway application, see Port Reference Information for Cisco Webex Calling for the latest IP subnets that you must add to the trust list:

configure terminal 
voice service voip
ip address trusted list
ipv4 x.x.x.x y.y.y.y
exit
allow-connections sip to sip
media statistics
media bulk-stats
no supplementary-service sip refer
no supplementary-service sip handle-replaces
fax protocol t38 version 0 ls-redundancy 0 hs-redundancy 0 fallback none
stun
stun flowdata agent-id 1 boot-count 4
stun flowdata shared-secret 0 Password123$
sip
g729 annexb-all
early-offer forced
asymmetric payload full
end

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

Toll-fraud prevention

voice service voip
ip address trusted list
ipv4 x.x.x.x y.y.y.y
  • Enables the source IP addresses of entities from which the Local Gateway expects legitimate VoIP calls, such as Webex Calling peers, Unified CM nodes, and IP PSTN.

  • By default, LGW blocks all incoming VoIP call setups from IP addresses not in its trusted list. IP Addresses from dial-peers with “session target IP” or server group are trusted by default, and you need not populate here.

  • IP addresses in the list must match the IP subnets according to the regional Webex Calling data center that you connect. For more information, see Port Reference Information for Webex Calling.


     

    If your LGW is behind a firewall with restricted cone NAT, you may prefer to disable the IP address trusted list on the Webex Calling facing interface. The firewall already protects you from unsolicited inbound VoIP. Disable action reduces your longer-term configuration overhead, because we cannot guarantee that the addresses of the Webex Calling peers remain fixed, and you must configure your firewall for the peers in any case.

  • Configure other IP addresses on other interfaces, for example: you ensure to add the Unified CM addresses to the inward-facing interfaces.

  • IP addresses must match the hosts IP and the outbound-proxy resolves to tenant 200.

    For more information on how to use an IP address trusted list to prevent toll fraud, see IP address trusted.

voice service voip
 media statistics 
 media bulk-stats 

Media

  • Media statistics

    Enables media monitoring on the Local Gateway.

  • Media bulk-stats

    Enables the control plane to poll the data plane for bulk call statistics.

    For more information on these commands, see Media.

SIP-to-SIP basic functionality

allow-connections sip to sip
  • Allow SIP-to-SIP connections.

  • By default, Cisco IOS or IOS XE voice devices don't allow an incoming VoIP leg to go out as VoIP.

    For more information, see Allow connections.

Supplementary services

no supplementary-service sip refer
no supplementary-service sip handle-replaces

Disables REFER and replaces the dialog ID in the replaces header with the peer dialog ID. For more information, see Supplementary service sip.

Fax protocol

fax protocol t38 version 0 ls-redundancy 0 hs-redundancy 0 fallback none

Enables T.38 for fax transport, though the fax traffic won't be encrypted. For more information on this command, see fax protocol t38 (voice-service).

Enable global stun

stun
stun flowdata agent-id 1 boot-count 4
stun flowdata shared-secret 0 Password123$
  • When you forward a call to a Webex Calling user (for example, both the called and calling parties are Webex Calling subscribers and if you anchor media at the Webex Calling SBC), then the media cannot flow to the Local Gateway as the pinhole isn't open.

  • The stun bindings feature on the Local Gateway allows locally generated stun requests to send over the negotiated media path. The stun helps to open the pinhole in the firewall.

  • A stun password is a prerequisite for the Local Gateway to send out stun messages. You can configure Cisco IOS/IOS XE-based firewalls to check for the password and open pinholes dynamically (for example, without explicit in-out rules). But for the Local Gateway deployment, you configure the firewall statically to open pinholes in and out based on the Webex Calling SBC subnets. As such, the firewall must treat SBC subnets as any inbound UDP packet, which triggers the pinhole opening without explicitly looking at the packet contents.

For more information, see stun flowdata agent-id and stun flowdata shared-secret.

G729

sip
g729 annexb-all

Allows all variants of G729. For more information, see g729 annexb-all.

SIP

early-offer forced

Forces the Local Gateway to send the SDP information in the initial INVITE message instead of waiting for acknowledgment from the neighboring peer. For more information on this command, see early-offer.

2

Configure “SIP Profile 200.”

voice class sip-profiles 200
rule 9 request ANY sip-header SIP-Req-URI modify "sips:(.*)" "sip:\1"
rule 10 request ANY sip-header To modify "<sips:(.*)" "<sip:\1"
rule 11 request ANY sip-header From modify "<sips:(.*)" "<sip:\1"
rule 12 request ANY sip-header Contact modify "<sips:(.*)>" "<sip:\1;transport=tls>" 
rule 13 response ANY sip-header To modify "<sips:(.*)" "<sip:\1"
rule 14 response ANY sip-header From modify "<sips:(.*)" "<sip:\1"
rule 15 response ANY sip-header Contact modify "<sips:(.*)" "<sip:\1"
rule 20 request ANY sip-header From modify ">" ";otg=hussain2572_lgu>"
rule 30 request ANY sip-header P-Asserted-Identity modify "sips:(.*)" "sip:\1"

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

  • rule 9

    Ensures that you list the header as “SIP-Req-URI” and not “SIP-Req-URL” .

    The rule converts between SIP URIs and SIP URLs, because Webex Calling doesn't support SIP URIs in the request/response messages, but needs them for SRV queries, for example: _sips._tcp.<outbound-proxy>.
  • rule 20

    Modifies the From header to include the trunk group OTG/DTG parameter from Control Hub to uniquely identify a Local Gateway site within an enterprise.

  • Applies SIP Profile to voice class tenant 200 (discussed later) for all traffic-facing Webex Calling. For more information, see voice class sip-profiles.

    For more information on rule commands, see rule (voice translation-rule).

3

Configure codec profile, stun definition, and SRTP Crypto suite.


voice class codec 99
 codec preference 1 opus
 codec preference 2 g711ulaw
 codec preference 3 g711alaw 
exit
voice class srtp-crypto 200
 crypto 1 AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_80
exit
voice class stun-usage 200
 stun usage firewall-traversal flowdata
 stun usage ice lite
exit


 

Negotiation and transcoding of the Opus codec is only available for SIP-to-SIP calls. For T1/E1/FXO trunks, exclude codec preference 1 opus from the voice class codec 99 configuration.

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

  • voice class codec 99

    Allows both g711 (mu-law and a-law) codecs for sessions. Apply stun to all the dial-peers. For more information, see voice class codec.

  • voice class srtp-crypto 200

    voice class srtp-crypto 200
    crypto 1 AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_80

    Specifies SHA1_80 as the only SRTP cipher-suite that the Local Gateway offers in the SDP in offer and answer. Webex Calling only supports SHA1_80. For more information on the voice class command, see voice class srtp-crypto.

  • Applies voice class tenant 200 (discussed later) facing- Webex Calling.

  • voice class stun-usage 200

    voice class stun-usage 200
    stun usage firewall-traversal flowdata
    stun usage ice lite

    Defines stun usage. Applies stun to all Webex Calling facing (2XX tag) dial-peers to avoid no-way audio when a Unified CM phone forwards the call to another Webex Calling phone. See stun usage firewall-traversal flowdata and stun usage ice lite.


 

If your anchor media at the ITSP SBC and the Local Gateway is behind a NAT, then wait for the inbound media stream from ITSP. You can apply the stun command on ITSP facing dial-peers.


 

You require stun usage of ice-lite for call flows using media path optimization. To support Cisco SIP-to-TDM gateway for ICE-lite based media optimization, configure loopback dial-peer on a TDM gateway as a workaround. For further technical details, contact the Account or TAC teams.

4

Map Control Hub parameters to Local Gateway configuration.

Add Webex Calling as a tenant within the Local Gateway. You require configuration to register the Local Gateway under voice class tenant 200. You must obtain the elements of that configuration from the Trunk Info page from Control Hub as shown in the following image. The following example displays what are the fields that map to the respective Local Gateway CLI.

Apply tenant 200 to all the Webex Calling facing dial-peers (2xx tag) within the Local Gateway configuration. The voice class tenant feature allows to group and to configure SIP trunk parameters that are otherwise done under voice service VoIP and sip-ua. When you configure a tenant and apply it under a dial-peer, then the following order of preference applies to Local Gateway configurations:

  • Dial-peer configuration

  • Tenant configuration

  • Global configuration (voice service VoIP / sip-ua)

5

Configure voice class tenant 200 to enable trunk registration from Local Gateway to Webex Calling based on the parameters you've obtained from Control Hub:


 

The following command line and parameters are examples only. Use the parameters for your own deployment.

voice class tenant 200
  registrar dns:40462196.cisco-bcld.com scheme sips expires 240 refresh-ratio 50 tcp tls
  credentials number Hussain6346_LGU username Hussain2572_LGU password 0 meX7]~)VmF realm BroadWorks
  authentication username Hussain2572_LGU password 0 meX7]~)VmF realm BroadWorks
  authentication username Hussain2572_LGU password 0 meX7]~)VmF realm 40462196.cisco-bcld.com
  no remote-party-id
  sip-server dns:40462196.cisco-bcld.com
  connection-reuse
  srtp-crypto 200
  session transport tcp tls 
  url sips 
  error-passthru
  asserted-id pai 
  bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
  bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
  no pass-thru content custom-sdp 
  sip-profiles 200 
  outbound-proxy dns:la01.sipconnect-us10.cisco-bcld.com  
  privacy-policy passthru

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

voice class tenant 200

Enables specific global configurations for multiple tenants on SIP trunks that allow differentiated services for tenants. For more information, see voice class tenant.

registrar dns:40462196.cisco-bcld.com scheme sips expires 240 refresh-ratio 50 tcp tls

Registrar server for the Local Gateway with the registration set to refresh every two minutes (50% of 240 seconds). For more information, see registrar.

credentials number Hussain6346_LGU username Hussain2572_LGU password 0 meX71]~)Vmf realm BroadWorks

Credentials for trunk registration challenge. For more information, see credentials (SIP UA).

authentication username Hussain6346_LGU password 0 meX71]~)Vmf realm BroadWorks
authentication username Hussain6346_LGU password 0 meX71]~)Vmf realm 40462196.cisco-bcld.com

Authentication challenge for calls. For more information, see authentication (dial-peer).

no remote-party-id

Disable SIP Remote-Party-ID (RPID) header as Webex Calling supports PAI, which is enabled using CIO asserted-id pai. For more information, see remote-party-id.

connection-reuse

Uses the same persistent connection for registration and call processing. For more information, see connection-reuse.

srtp-crypto 200

Defines voice class srtp-crypto 200 to specify SHA1_80 (specified in step 3). For more information, see voice class srtp-crypto.

session transport tcp tls

Sets transport to TLS. For more information, see session-transport.

url sips

SRV query must be SIPs as supported by the access SBC; all other messages are changed to SIP by sip-profile 200.

error-passthru

Specifies SIP error response pass-thru functionality. For more information, see error-passthru.

asserted-id pai

Turns on PAI processing in Local Gateway. For more information, see asserted-id.

bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1

Configures a source IP address for signaling the source interface facing Webex Calling.

bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1

Configures a source IP address for the media source interface facing Webex Calling. For more information on the bind commands, see bind.

no pass-thru content custom-sdp

Default command under tenant. For more information on this command, see pass-thru content.

sip-profiles 200

Changes SIPs to SIP and modify Line/Port for INVITE and REGISTER messages as defined in sip-profiles 200. For more information, see voice class sip-profiles.

outbound-proxy dns:la01.sipconnect-us10.cisco-bcld.com

Webex Calling access SBC. For more information, see outbound-proxy.

privacy-policy passthru

Transparently pass across privacy header values from the incoming to the outgoing leg. For more information, see privacy-policy.

After you define tenant 200 within the Local Gateway and configure a SIP VoIP dial-peer, the gateway then initiates a TLS connection toward Webex Calling, at which point the access SBC presents its certificate to the Local Gateway. The Local Gateway validates the Webex Calling access SBC certificate using the CA root bundle that is updated earlier. Establishes a persistent TLS session between the Local Gateway and Webex Calling access SBC. The Local Gateway then sends a REGISTER to the access SBC that is challenged. Registration AOR is number@domain. The number is taken from credentials “number” parameter and domain from the “registrar dns:<fqdn>.” When the registration is challenged:

  • Use the username, password, and realm parameters from the credentials to build the header and sip-profile 200.

  • Converts SIPS url back to SIP.

Registration is successful when you receive 200 OK from the access SBC.

This deployment requires the following configuration on the Local Gateway:

  1. Voice class tenants—You create other tenants for dial-peers facing ITSP similar to tenant 200 that you create for Webex Calling facing dial-peers.

  2. Voice class URIs—You define patterns for host IP addresses/ports for various trunks terminating on Local Gateway:

    • Webex Calling to LGW

    • PSTN SIP trunk termination on LGW

  3. Outbound dial-peers—You can route outbound call legs from LGW to ITSP SIP trunk and Webex Calling.

  4. Voice class DPG—You can invoke to target the outbound dial-peers from an inbound dial-peer.

  5. Inbound dial-peers—You can accept inbound call legs from ITSP and Webex Calling.

Use the configurations either for partner-hosted Local Gateway setup, or customer site gateway, as shown in the following image.

1

Configure the following voice class tenants:

  1. Apply voice class tenant 100 to all outbound dial-peers facing IP PSTN.

    voice class tenant 100 
    session transport udp
    url sip
    error-passthru
    bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
    bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
    no pass-thru content custom-sdp
    

  2. Apply voice class tenant 300 to all inbound dial-peers from IP PSTN.

    voice class tenant 300 
    bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
    bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
    no pass-thru content custom-sdp
    

2

Configure the following voice class uri:

  1. Define ITSP’s host IP address:

    voice class uri 100 sip
      host ipv4:192.168.80.13
    

  2. Define a pattern to uniquely identify a Local Gateway site within an enterprise based on Control Hub's trunk group OTG or DTG parameter:

    voice class uri 200 sip
     pattern dtg=hussain2572.lgu
    


     

    Local Gateway doesn't currently support an underscore "_" in the match pattern. As a workaround, you can use a dot "." (match any) to match the "_".

    Received
    INVITE sip:+16785550123@198.18.1.226:5061;transport=tls;dtg=hussain2572_lgu SIP/2.0
    Via: SIP/2.0/TLS 199.59.70.30:8934;branch=z9hG4bK2hokad30fg14d0358060.1
    pattern :8934
    

3

Configure the following outbound dial peers:

  1. Outbound dial-peer toward IP PSTN:

    dial-peer voice 101 voip 
    description Outgoing dial-peer to IP PSTN
    destination-pattern BAD.BAD
    session protocol sipv2
    session target ipv4:192.168.80.13
    voice-class codec 99
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class sip tenant 100
    no vad

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 101 voip
     description Outgoing dial-peer to PSTN
    

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 101 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    destination-pattern BAD.BAD

    Allows selection of dial-peer 101. However, you invoke this outgoing dial-peer directly from the inbound dial-peer using dpg statements and that bypasses the digit pattern match criteria. You are using an arbitrary pattern based on alphanumeric digits that are allowed by the destination-pattern CLI.

    session protocol sipv2

    Specifies that dial-peer 101 handles SIP call legs.

    session target ipv4:192.168.80.13

    Indicates the destination’s target IPv4 address to send the call leg. In this case, ITSP’s IP address.

    voice-class codec 99

    Indicates codec preference list 99 to be used for this dial-peer.

    dtmf-relay rtp-nte

    Defines RTP-NTE (RFC2833) as the DTMF capability expected on this call leg.

    voice-class sip tenant 100

    The dial-peer inherits all the parameters from tenant 100 unless that same parameter is defined under the dial-peer itself.

    no vad

    Disables voice activity detection.

  2. Outbound dial-peer toward Webex Calling (You update outbound dial-peer to serve as inbound dial-peer from Webex Calling as well later in the configuration guide).

    dial-peer voice 200201 voip
     description Inbound/Outbound Webex Calling
    destination-pattern BAD.BAD
    session protocol sipv2
    session target sip-server
    voice-class codec 99
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class stun-usage 200
    no voice-class sip localhost
    voice-class sip tenant 200
    srtp
    no vad
    

    Explanation of commands:

    dial-peer voice 200201 voip
    description Inbound/Outbound Webex Calling

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 200201 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting

    session target sip-server

    Indicates that the global SIP server is the destination for calls from this dial peer. Webex Calling server that you define in tenant 200 is inherited for dial-peer 200201.

    voice-class stun-usage 200

    Allows locally generated stun requests on the Local Gateway to send over the negotiated media path. Stun helps in opening up the pinhole in the firewall.

    no voice-class sip localhost

    Disables substitution of the DNS local host name in place of the physical IP address in the From, Call-ID, and Remote-Party-ID headers of outgoing messages.

    voice-class sip tenant 200

    The dial-peer inherits all the parameters from tenant 200 (LGW <--> Webex Calling Trunk) unless you define the same parameter under the dial-peer itself.

    srtp

    Enables SRTP for the call leg.

    no vad

    Disables voice activity detection.

4

Configure the following dial-peer groups (dpg):

  1. Defines dial-peer group 100. Outbound dial-peer 101 is the target for any incoming dial-peer invoking dial-peer group 100. We apply DPG 100 to the incoming dial-peer 200201 for Webex Calling --> LGW --> PSTN path.

    voice class dpg 100
    description Incoming WxC(DP200201) to IP PSTN(DP101)
    dial-peer 101 preference 1
    

  2. Define dial-peer group 200 with outbound dial-peer 200201 as the target for PSTN --> LGW --> Webex Calling path. Apply DPG 200 to the incoming dial-peer 100 that you define later.

    voice class dpg 200
    description Incoming IP PSTN(DP100) to Webex Calling(DP200201)
    dial-peer 200201 preference 1
    

5

Configure the following inbound dial-peers:

  1. Inbound dial-peer for incoming IP PSTN call legs:

    dial-peer voice 100 voip
    description Incoming dial-peer from PSTN
    session protocol sipv2
    destination dpg 200
    incoming uri via 100
    voice-class codec 99
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class sip tenant 300
    no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 100 voip
    description Incoming dial-peer from PSTN

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 100 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    session protocol sipv2

    Specifies that dial-peer 100 handles SIP call legs.

    incoming uri via 100

    Specifies the voice class uri 100 to match all incoming traffic from IP PSTN to Local Gateway on a VIA header’s host IP address. For more information, see incoming uri.

    destination dpg 200

    Specifies dial peer group 200 to select an outbound dial peer. For more information on setting a dial-peer group, see voice class dpg.

    voice-class sip tenant 300

    The dial-peer inherits all the parameters from tenant 300 unless that same parameter is defined under the dial-peer itself.

    no vad

    Disables voice activity detection.

  2. Inbound dial-peer for incoming Webex Calling call legs:

    dial-peer voice 200201 voip
    description Inbound/Outbound Webex Calling
    max-conn 250
    destination dpg 100
    incoming uri request 200
     

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 200201 voip
    description Inbound/Outbound Webex Calling

    Updates a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 200201and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    incoming uri request 200

    Specifies the voice class uri 200 to match all incoming traffic from Webex Calling to LGW on the unique dtg pattern in the request URI, uniquely identifying the Local Gateway site within an enterprise and in the Webex Calling ecosystem. For more information, see incoming uri.

    destination dpg 100

    Specifies dial peer group 100 to select an outbound dial peer. For more information on setting a dial-peer group, see voice class dpg.

    max-conn 250

    Restricts the number of concurrent calls to 250 between the LGW and Webex Calling, assuming a single dial-peer facing Webex Calling for both inbound and outbound calls as defined in this article. For more information on concurrent call limits involving Local Gateway, refer to the document Transitioning from Unified CM to Webex Calling.

PSTN to Webex Calling

Match all incoming IP PSTN call legs on the Local Gateway with dial-peer 100 to define a match criterion for the VIA header with the IP PSTN’s IP address. DPG 200 invokes outgoing dial-peer 200201, that has the Webex Calling server as a target destination.

Webex Calling to PSTN

Match all incoming Webex Calling call legs on the Local Gateway with dial-peer 200201 to define the match criterion for the REQUEST URI header pattern with the trunk group OTG/DTG parameter, unique to this Local Gateway deployment. DPG 100 invokes the outgoing dial-peer 101, that has the IP PSTN IP address as a target destination.

This deployment requires the following configuration on the Local Gateway:

  1. Voice class tenants—You create more tenants for dial-peers facing Unified CM and ITSP, similar to tenant 200 that you create for Webex Calling facing dial-peers.

  2. Voice class URIs—You define a pattern for host IP addresses/ports for various trunks terminating on the LGW from:

    • Unified CM to LGW for PSTN destinations

    • Unified CM to LGW for Webex Calling destinations

    • Webex Calling to LGW destinations

    • PSTN SIP trunk termination on LGW

  3. Voice class server-group—You can target IP addresses/ports for outbound trunks from:

    • LGW to Unified CM

    • LGW to Webex Calling

    • LGW to PSTN SIP trunk

  4. Outbound dial-peers—You can route outbound call legs from:

    • LGW to Unified CM

    • ITSP SIP trunk

    • Webex Calling

  5. Voice class DPG—You can invoke to target outbound dial-peers from an inbound dial-peer.

  6. Inbound dial-peers—You can accept inbound call legs from Unified CM, ITSP, and Webex Calling.

1

Configure the following voice class tenants:

  1. Apply voice class tenant 100 on all outbound dial-peers facing Unified CM and IP PSTN:

    voice class tenant 100 
    session transport udp
    url sip
    error-passthru
    bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
    bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
    no pass-thru content custom-sdp
    

  2. Apply voice class tenant 300 on all inbound dial-peers from Unified CM and IP PSTN:

    voice class tenant 300 
    bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
    bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
    no pass-thru content custom-sdp
    
2

Configure the following voice class uri:

  1. Defines ITSP’s host IP address:

    voice class uri 100 sip
      host ipv4:192.168.80.13
    
  2. Define a pattern to uniquely identify a Local Gateway site within an enterprise based on Control Hub's trunk group OTG/DTG parameter:

    voice class uri 200 sip
    pattern dtg=hussain2572.lgu
    

     

    The Local Gateway doesn't currently support underscore "_" in the match pattern. As a workaround, you use dot "." (match any) to match the "_".

    Received
    INVITE sip:+16785550123@198.18.1.226:5061;transport=tls;dtg=hussain2572_lgu SIP/2.0
    Via: SIP/2.0/TLS 199.59.70.30:8934;branch=z9hG4bK2hokad30fg14d0358060.1
    pattern :8934
    
  3. Defines Unified CM signaling VIA port for the Webex Calling trunk:

    voice class uri 300 sip
    pattern :5065
    
  4. Defines Unified CM source signaling IP and VIA port for PSTN trunk:

    voice class uri 302 sip
    pattern 192.168.80.60:5060
    
3

Configure the following voice class server-groups:

  1. Defines Unified CM trunk’s target host IP address and port number for Unified CM group 1 (5 nodes). Unified CM uses port 5065 for inbound traffic on the Webex Calling trunk (Webex Calling <-> LGW --> Unified CM).

    voice class server-group 301
    ipv4 192.168.80.60 port 5065
    
  2. Defines Unified CM trunk’s target host IP address and port number for Unified CM group 2 if applicable:

    voice class server-group 303
    ipv4 192.168.80.60 port 5065
    
  3. Defines Unified CM trunk’s target host IP address for Unified CM group 1 (5 nodes). Unified CM uses default port 5060 for inbound traffic on the PSTN trunk. With no port number specified, you can use the default 5060 port. (PSTN <--> LGW --> Unified CM)

    voice class server-group 305
    ipv4 192.168.80.60
    
  4. Defines Unified CM trunk’s target host IP address for Unified CM group 2, if applicable.

    voice class server-group 307 
    ipv4 192.168.80.60
    
4

Configure the following outbound dial-peers:

  1. Outbound dial-peer toward IP PSTN:

    dial-peer voice 101 voip 
    description Outgoing dial-peer to IP PSTN
    destination-pattern BAD.BAD
    session protocol sipv2
    session target ipv4:192.168.80.13
    voice-class codec 99
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class sip tenant 100
    no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 101 voip
    description Outgoing dial-peer to PSTN

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 101 and a meaningful description is given for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    destination-pattern BAD.BAD

    Allows selection of dial-peer 101. However, you invoke the outgoing dial-peer directly from the inbound dial-peer using dpg statements and that bypasses the digit pattern match criteria. You are using an arbitrary pattern that is based on alphanumeric digits that are allowed by the destination-pattern CLI.

    session protocol sipv2

    Specifies that dial-peer 101 handles SIP call legs.

    session target ipv4:192.168.80.13

    Indicates the destination’s target IPv4 address to send the call leg. (In this case, ITSP’s IP address.)

    voice-class codec 99

    Indicates codec preference list 99 to be in use for this dial-peer.

    voice-class sip tenant 100

    The dial-peer inherits all the parameters from tenant 100 unless you define the same parameter under the dial-peer itself.

  2. Outbound dial-peer toward Webex Calling (Update the outbound dial-peer to serve as the inbound dial-peer from Webex Calling):

    dial-peer voice 200201 voip
    description Inbound/Outbound Webex Calling
    destination-pattern BAD.BAD
    session protocol sipv2
    session target sip-server
    voice-class codec 99
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class stun-usage 200
    no voice-class sip localhost
    voice-class sip tenant 200
    srtp
    no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 200201 voip
    description Inbound/Outbound Webex Calling

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 200201 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    session target sip-server

    Indicates that the global SIP server is the destination for calls from the dial-peer 200201. Webex Calling server that is defined in tenant 200 is inherited for the dial-peer 200201.

    voice-class stun-usage 200

    Allows locally generated stun requests to send over the negotiated media path. Stun helps in opening up the pinhole in the firewall.

    no voice-class sip localhost

    Disables substitution of the DNS local host name in place of the physical IP address in the From, Call-ID, and Remote-Party-ID headers of outgoing messages.

    voice-class sip tenant 200

    The dial-peer inherits all the parameters from tenant 200 (LGW <--> Webex Calling trunk) unless you define the same parameter under the dial-peer itself.

    srtp

    Enables SRTP for the call leg.

  3. Outbound dial-peer toward Unified CM's Webex Calling trunk:

    dial-peer voice 301 voip
    description Outgoing dial-peer to CUCM-Group-1 for 
    inbound from Webex Calling - Nodes 1 to 5
    destination-pattern BAD.BAD
    session protocol sipv2
    session server-group 301
    voice-class codec 99
    voice-class sip bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/2
    voice-class sip bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/2
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class sip tenant 100
    no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 301 voip
    description Outgoing dial-peer to CUCM-Group-1 for 
    inbound from Webex Calling – Nodes 1 to 5

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 301 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    session server-group 301

    Instead of session target IP in the dial-peer, you are pointing to a destination server group (server-group 301 for dial-peer 301) to define multiple target UCM nodes though the example only shows a single node.

    Server group in outbound dial-peer

    With multiple dial-peers in the DPG and multiple servers in the dial-peer server group, you can achieve random distribution of calls over all Unified CM call processing subscribers or hunt based on a defined preference. Each server group can have up to five servers (IPv4/v6 with or without port). You only require a second dial-peer and second server group if more than five call processing subscribers are use.

    For more information, see Server Groups in Outbound Dial Peers in Cisco Unified Border Element Configuration Guide - Cisco IOS XE 17.6 Onwards.

  4. Second outbound dial-peer toward Unified CM's Webex Calling trunk if you have more than 5 Unified CM nodes:

    dial-peer voice 303 voip
    description Outgoing dial-peer to CUCM-Group-2 
    for inbound from Webex Calling - Nodes 6 to 10
    destination-pattern BAD.BAD
    session protocol sipv2
    session server-group 303
    voice-class codec 99
    voice-class sip bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/2
    voice-class sip bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/2
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class sip tenant 100
    no vad

  5. Outbound dial-peer toward Unified CM's PSTN trunk:

    dial-peer voice 305 voip
    description Outgoing dial-peer to CUCM-Group-1for inbound from PSTN - Nodes 1 to 5
    destination-pattern BAD.BAD
    session protocol sipv2
    session server-group 305
    voice-class codec 99 
    voice-class sip bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/2
    voice-class sip bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/2
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class sip tenant 100
    no vad
    

  6. Second outbound dial-peer toward Unified CM’s PSTN trunk if you have more than 5 Unified CM nodes:

    dial-peer voice 307 voip
    description Outgoing dial-peer to CUCM-Group-2 for inbound from PSTN - Nodes 6 to 10
    destination-pattern BAD.BAD
    session protocol sipv2
    session server-group 307
    voice-class codec 99  
    voice-class sip bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/2
    voice-class sip bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/2
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class sip tenant 100
    no vad
    

5

Configure the following DPG:

  1. Defines DPG 100. Outbound dial-peer 101 is the target for any incoming dial-peer invoking dial-peer group 100. We apply DPG 100 to incoming dial-peer 302 defined later for the Unified CM --> LGW --> PSTN path:

    voice class dpg 100
    dial-peer 101 preference 1
    
  2. Define DPG 200 with outbound dial-peer 200201 as the target for Unified CM --> LGW --> Webex Calling path:

    voice class dpg 200
    dial-peer 200201 preference 1
    
  3. Define DPG 300 for outbound dial-peers 301 or 303 for the Webex Calling --> LGW --> Unified CM path:

    voice class dpg 300
    dial-peer 301 preference 1
    dial-peer 303 preference 1
    

  4. Define DPG 302 for outbound dial-peers 305 or 307 for the PSTN --> LGW --> Unified CM path:

    voice class dpg 302
    dial-peer 305 preference 1
    dial-peer 307 preference 1
    

6

Configure the following inbound dial-peers:

  1. Inbound dial-peer for incoming IP PSTN call legs:

    dial-peer voice 100 voip
    description Incoming dial-peer from PSTN
    session protocol sipv2
    destination dpg 302
    incoming uri via 100
    voice-class codec 99
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class sip tenant 300
    no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 100 voip
    description Incoming dial-peer from PSTN

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 100 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    session protocol sipv2

    Specifies that dial-peer 100 handles SIP call legs.

    incoming uri via 100

    Specifies the voice class uri 100 to all incoming traffic from Unified CM to LGW on the VIA header’s host IP address. For more information, see incoming uri.

    destination dpg 302

    Specifies dial-peer group 302 to select an outbound dial-peer. For more information on setting a dial-peer group, see voice class dpg.

    voice-class sip tenant 300

    The dial-peer inherits all the parameters from tenant 300 unless you define the same parameter under the dial-peer itself.

  2. Inbound dial-peer for incoming Webex Calling call legs:

    dial-peer voice 200201 voip
    description Inbound/Outbound Webex Calling
    max-conn 250
    destination dpg 300
    incoming uri request 200
     

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 200201 voip
    description Inbound/Outbound Webex Calling

    Updates a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 200201 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    incoming uri request 200

    Specifies the voice class uri 200 to all incoming traffic from Unified CM to LGW on the unique dtg pattern in the request URI, uniquely identifying a Local Gateway site within an enterprise and in the Webex Calling ecosystem. For more information, see incoming uri.

    destination dpg 300

    Specifies dial-peer group 300 to select an outbound dial-peer. For more information on setting a dial-peer group, see voice class dpg.

    max-conn 250

    Restricts the number of concurrent calls to 250 between the LGW and Webex Calling assuming a single dial-peer facing Webex Calling for both inbound and outbound calls as defined in this guide. For more details about concurrent call limits involving Local Gateway, see the document Transitioning from Unified CM to Webex Calling.

  3. Inbound dial-peer for incoming Unified CM call legs with Webex Calling as the destination:

    dial-peer voice 300 voip
    description Incoming dial-peer from CUCM for Webex Calling
    session protocol sipv2
    destination dpg 200
    incoming uri via 300
    voice-class codec 99
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class sip tenant 300
    no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 300 voip
    description Incoming dial-peer from CUCM for Webex Calling

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 300 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    incoming uri via 300

    Specifies the voice class URI 300 to all incoming traffic from Unified CM to LGW on the via source port (5065). For more information, see incoming uri.

    destination dpg 200

    Specifies dial-peer group 200 to select an outbound dial-peer. For more information on setting a dial-peer group, see voice class dpg.

    voice-class sip tenant 300

    The dial-peer inherits all the parameters from tenant 300 unless you define the same parameter under the dial-peer itself.

  4. Inbound dial-peer for incoming Unified CM call legs with PSTN as the destination:

    dial-peer voice 302 voip
    description Incoming dial-peer from CUCM for PSTN
    session protocol sipv2
    destination dpg 100
    incoming uri via 302
    voice-class codec 99
    dtmf-relay rtp-nte
    voice-class sip tenant 300
    no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 302 voip
    description Incoming dial-peer from CUCM for PSTN

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 302 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    incoming uri via 302

    Specifies the voice class uri 302 to all incoming traffic from Unified CM to LGW on the via source port (5065). For more information, see incoming uri.

    destination dpg 100

    Specifies dial-peer group 100 to select an outbound dial-peer. For more information on setting a dial-peer group, see voice class dpg.

    voice-class sip tenant 300

    The dial-peer inherits all the parameters from tenant 300 unless you define the same parameter under the dial-peer itself.

IP PSTN to Unified CM PSTN trunk

Webex Calling platform to Unified CM Webex Calling trunk

Unified CM PSTN trunk to IP PSTN

Unified CM Webex Calling trunk to Webex Calling platform

Diagnostic Signatures (DS) proactively detects commonly observed issues in the IOS XE-based Local Gateway and generates email, syslog, or terminal message notification of the event. You can also install the DS to automate diagnostics data collection and transfer collected data to the Cisco TAC case to accelerate resolution time.

Diagnostic Signatures (DS) are XML files that contain information about problem trigger events and actions to be taken to inform, troubleshoot, and remediate the issue. you can define the problem detection logic using syslog messages, SNMP events and through periodic monitoring of specific show command outputs.

The action types include collecting show command outputs:

  • Generating a consolidated log file

  • Uploading the file to a user provided network location such as HTTPS, SCP, FTP server

TAC engineers author the DS files and digitally sign it for integrity protection. Each DS file has a unique numerical ID assigned by the system. Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool (DSLT) is a single source to find applicable signatures for monitoring and troubleshooting various problems.

Before you begin:

  • Do not edit the DS file that you download from DSLT. The files that you modify fail installation due to the integrity check error.

  • A Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server you require for the Local Gateway to send out email notifications.

  • Ensure that the Local Gateway is running IOS XE 17.6.1 or higher if you wish to use the secure SMTP server for email notifications.

Prerequisites

Local Gateway running IOS XE 17.3.2 or higher

  1. Diagnostic Signatures is enabled by default.

  2. Configure the secure email server to be used to send proactive notification if the device is running Cisco IOS XE 17.3.2 or higher.

    configure terminal 
    call-home  
    mail-server <username>:<pwd>@<email server> priority 1 secure tls 
    end 

  3. Configure the environment variable ds_email with the email address of the administrator to notify you.

    configure terminal 
    call-home  
    diagnostic-signature 
    environment ds_email <email address> 
    end 

Local Gateway running 16.11.1 or higher

  1. Diagnostic signatures are enabled by default

  2. Configure the email server to be used to send proactive notifications if the device is running a version earlier than 17.3.2.

    configure terminal 
    call-home  
    mail-server <email server> priority 1 
    end 
  3. Configure the environment variable ds_email with the email address of the administrator to be notified.

    configure terminal 
    call-home  
    diagnostic-signature 
    environment ds_email <email address>
    end 

Local Gateway running 16.9.x version

  1. Enter the following commands to enable diagnostic signatures.

    configure terminal 
    call-home reporting contact-email-addr sch-smart-licensing@cisco.com  
    end  
  2. Configure the email server to be used to send proactive notifications if the device is running a version earlier than 17.3.2.

    configure terminal 
    call-home  
    mail-server  <email server> priority 1 
    end 
  3. Configure the environment variable ds_email with the email address of the administrator to be notified.

    configure terminal 
    call-home  
    diagnostic-signature 
    environment ds_email <email address> 
    end 

The following shows an example configuration of a Local Gateway running on Cisco IOS XE 17.3.2 to send the proactive notifications to tacfaststart@gmail.com using Gmail as the secure SMTP server:

call-home  
mail-server tacfaststart:password@smtp.gmail.com priority 1 secure tls 
diagnostic-signature 
environment ds_email "tacfaststart@gmail.com" 

 

A Local Gateway running on Cisco IOS XE Software is not a typical web-based Gmail client that supports OAuth, so we must configure a specific Gmail account setting and provide specific permission to have the email from the device processed correctly:

  1. Go to Manage Google Account > Security and turn on Less secure app access setting.

  2. Answer “Yes, it was me” when you receive an email from Gmail stating “Google prevented someone from signing into your account using a non-Google app.”

Install diagnostic signatures for proactive monitoring

Monitoring high CPU utilization

This DS tracks 5-seconds CPU utilization using the SNMP OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.56. When the utilization reaches 75% or more, it disables all debugs and uninstalls all diagnostic signatures that are installed in the Local Gateway. Use these steps below to install the signature.

  1. Use the show snmp command to enable SNMP. If you do not enable, then configure the snmp-server manager command.

    show snmp 
    %SNMP agent not enabled 
    
    config t 
    snmp-server manager 
    end 
    
    show snmp 
    Chassis: ABCDEFGHIGK 
    149655 SNMP packets input 
        0 Bad SNMP version errors 
        1 Unknown community name 
        0 Illegal operation for community name supplied 
        0 Encoding errors 
        37763 Number of requested variables 
        2 Number of altered variables 
        34560 Get-request PDUs 
        138 Get-next PDUs 
        2 Set-request PDUs 
        0 Input queue packet drops (Maximum queue size 1000) 
    158277 SNMP packets output 
        0 Too big errors (Maximum packet size 1500) 
        20 No such name errors 
        0 Bad values errors 
        0 General errors 
        7998 Response PDUs 
        10280 Trap PDUs 
    Packets currently in SNMP process input queue: 0 
    SNMP global trap: enabled 
    
  2. Download DS 64224 using the following drop-down options in Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool:

    Field Name

    Field Value

    Platform

    Cisco 4300, 4400 ISR Series or Cisco CSR 1000V Series

    Product

    CUBE Enterprise in Webex Calling Solution

    Problem Scope

    Performance

    Problem Type

    High CPU Utilization with Email Notification.

  3. Copy the DS XML file to the Local Gateway flash.

    LocalGateway# copy ftp://username:password@<server name or ip>/DS_64224.xml bootflash: 

    The following example shows copying the file from an FTP server to the Local Gateway.

    copy ftp://user:pwd@192.0.2.12/DS_64224.xml bootflash: 
    Accessing ftp://*:*@ 192.0.2.12/DS_64224.xml...! 
    [OK - 3571/4096 bytes] 
    3571 bytes copied in 0.064 secs (55797 bytes/sec) 
    
  4. Install the DS XML file in the Local Gateway.

    call-home diagnostic-signature load DS_64224.xml 
    Load file DS_64224.xml success 
  5. Use the show call-home diagnostic-signature command to verify that the signature is successfully installed. The status column should have a “registered” value.

    show call-home diagnostic-signature  
    Current diagnostic-signature settings: 
    Diagnostic-signature: enabled 
    Profile: CiscoTAC-1 (status: ACTIVE) 
    Downloading  URL(s):  https://tools.cisco.com/its/service/oddce/services/DDCEService 
    Environment variable: 
    ds_email: username@gmail.com 

    Download DSes:

    DS ID

    DS Name

    Revision

    Status

    Last Update (GMT+00:00)

    64224

    DS_LGW_CPU_MON75

    0.0.10

    Registered

    2020-11-07 22:05:33


     

    When triggered, this signature uninstalls all running DSs including itself. If necessary, please reinstall DS 64224 to continue monitoring high CPU utilization on the Local Gateway.

Monitoring SIP trunk registration

This DS checks for unregistration of a Local Gateway SIP Trunk with Webex Calling cloud every 60 seconds. Once the unregistration event is detected, it generates an email and syslog notification and uninstalls itself after two unregistration occurrences. Please use the steps below to install the signature.

  1. Download DS 64117 using the following drop-down options in Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool:

    Field Name

    Field Value

    Platform

    Cisco 4300, 4400 ISR Series or Cisco CSR 1000V Series

    Product

    CUBE Enterprise in Webex Calling Solution

    Problem Scope

    SIP-SIP

    Problem Type

    SIP Trunk Unregistration with Email Notification.

  2. Copy the DS XML file to the Local Gateway.

    copy ftp://username:password@<server name or ip>/DS_64117.xml bootflash: 
  3. Install the DS XML file in the Local Gateway.

    call-home diagnostic-signature load DS_64117.xml 
    Load file DS_64117.xml success 
    LocalGateway#  
  4. Use the show call-home diagnostic-signature command to verify that the signature is successfully installed. The status column must have a “registered” value.

Monitoring abnormal call disconnects

This DS uses SNMP polling every 10 minutes to detect abnormal call disconnect with SIP errors 403, 488 and 503.  If the error count increment is greater than or equal to 5 from the last poll, it generates a syslog and email notification. Please use the steps below to install the signature.

  1. Use the show snmp command to check whether SNMP is enabled. If it is not enabled, configure the snmp-server manager command.

    show snmp 
    %SNMP agent not enabled 
     
    
    config t 
    snmp-server manager 
    end 
    
    show snmp 
    Chassis: ABCDEFGHIGK 
    149655 SNMP packets input 
        0 Bad SNMP version errors 
        1 Unknown community name 
        0 Illegal operation for community name supplied 
        0 Encoding errors 
        37763 Number of requested variables 
        2 Number of altered variables 
        34560 Get-request PDUs 
        138 Get-next PDUs 
        2 Set-request PDUs 
        0 Input queue packet drops (Maximum queue size 1000) 
    158277 SNMP packets output 
        0 Too big errors (Maximum packet size 1500) 
        20 No such name errors 
        0 Bad values errors 
        0 General errors 
        7998 Response PDUs 
        10280 Trap PDUs 
    Packets currently in SNMP process input queue: 0 
    SNMP global trap: enabled 
    
  2. Download DS 65221 using the following options in Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool:

    Field Name

    Field Value

    Platform

    Cisco 4300, 4400 ISR Series or Cisco CSR 1000V Series

    Product

    CUBE Enterprise in Webex Calling Solution

    Problem Scope

    Performance

    Problem Type

    SIP abnormal call disconnect detection with Email and Syslog Notification.

  3. Copy the DS XML file to the Local Gateway.

    copy ftp://username:password@<server name or ip>/DS_65221.xml bootflash:
  4. Install the DS XML file in the Local Gateway.

    call-home diagnostic-signature load DS_65221.xml 
    Load file DS_65221.xml success 
    
  5. Use the show call-home diagnostic-signature command to verify that the signature is successfully installed using . The status column must have a “registered” value.

Install diagnostic signatures to troubleshoot a problem

Use Diagnostic Signatures (DS) to resolve issues quickly. Cisco TAC engineers have authored several signatures that enable the necessary debugs that are required to troubleshoot a given problem, detect the problem occurrence, collect the right set of diagnostic data and transfer the data automatically to the Cisco TAC case. Diagnostic Signatures (DS) eliminates the need to manually check for the problem occurrence and makes troubleshooting of intermittent and transient issues a lot easier.

You can use the Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool to find the applicable signatures and install them to selfsolve a given issue or you can install the signature that is recommended by the TAC engineer as part of the support engagement.

Here is an example of how to find and install a DS to detect the occurrence “%VOICE_IEC-3-GW: CCAPI: Internal Error (call spike threshold): IEC=1.1.181.1.29.0" syslog and automate diagnostic data collection using the following steps:

  1. Configure an additional DS environment variable ds_fsurl_prefix which is the Cisco TAC file server path (cxd.cisco.com) to which the collected diagnostics data are uploaded. The username in the file path is the case number and the password is the file upload token which can be retrieved from Support Case Manager in the following command. The file upload token can be generated in the Attachments section of the Support Case Manager, as needed.

    configure terminal 
    call-home  
    diagnostic-signature 
    LocalGateway(cfg-call-home-diag-sign)environment ds_fsurl_prefix "scp://<case number>:<file upload token>@cxd.cisco.com"  
    end 

    Example:

    call-home  
    diagnostic-signature 
    environment ds_fsurl_prefix " environment ds_fsurl_prefix "scp://612345678:abcdefghijklmnop@cxd.cisco.com"  
  2. Ensure that SNMP is enabled using the show snmp command. If it is not enabled, configure the snmp-server manager command.

    show snmp 
    %SNMP agent not enabled 
     
     
    config t 
    snmp-server manager 
    end 
  3. Ensure to install the High CPU monitoring DS 64224 as a proactive measure to disable all debugs and diagnostics signatures during the time of high CPU utilization. Download DS 64224 using the following options in Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool:

    Field Name

    Field Value

    Platform

    Cisco 4300, 4400 ISR Series or Cisco CSR 1000V Series

    Product

    CUBE Enterprise in Webex Calling Solution

    Problem Scope

    Performance

    Problem Type

    High CPU Utilization with Email Notification.

  4. Download DS 65095 using the following options in Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool:

    Field Name

    Field Value

    Platform

    Cisco 4300, 4400 ISR Series or Cisco CSR 1000V Series

    Product

    CUBE Enterprise in Webex Calling Solution

    Problem Scope

    Syslogs

    Problem Type

    Syslog - %VOICE_IEC-3-GW: CCAPI: Internal Error (Call spike threshold): IEC=1.1.181.1.29.0

  5. Copy the DS XML files to the Local Gateway.

    copy ftp://username:password@<server name or ip>/DS_64224.xml bootflash: 
    copy ftp://username:password@<server name or ip>/DS_65095.xml bootflash: 
  6. Install the High CPU monitoring DS 64224 and then DS 65095 XML file in the Local Gateway.

    call-home diagnostic-signature load DS_64224.xml 
    Load file DS_64224.xml success 
     
    call-home diagnostic-signature load DS_65095.xml 
    Load file DS_65095.xml success 
    
  7. Verify that the signature is successfully installed using the show call-home diagnostic-signature command. The status column must have a “registered” value.

    show call-home diagnostic-signature  
    Current diagnostic-signature settings: 
    Diagnostic-signature: enabled 
    Profile: CiscoTAC-1 (status: ACTIVE) 
    Downloading  URL(s):  https://tools.cisco.com/its/service/oddce/services/DDCEService 
    Environment variable: 
               ds_email: username@gmail.com 
               ds_fsurl_prefix: scp://612345678:abcdefghijklmnop@cxd.cisco.com 

    Downloaded DSes:

    DS ID

    DS Name

    Revision

    Status

    Last Update (GMT+00:00)

    64224

    00:07:45

    DS_LGW_CPU_MON75

    0.0.10

    Registered

    2020-11-08

    65095

    00:12:53

    DS_LGW_IEC_Call_spike_threshold

    0.0.12

    Registered

    2020-11-08

Verify diagnostic signatures execution

In the following command, the “Status” column of the show call-home diagnostic-signature command changes to “running” while the Local Gateway executes the action defined within the signature. The output of show call-home diagnostic-signature statistics is the best way to verify whether a diagnostic signature detects an event of interest and executes the action. The “Triggered/Max/Deinstall” column indicates the number of times the given signature has triggered an event, the maximum number of times it is defined to detect an event and whether the signature deinstalls itself after detecting the maximum number of triggered events.

show call-home diagnostic-signature  
Current diagnostic-signature settings: 
Diagnostic-signature: enabled 
Profile: CiscoTAC-1 (status: ACTIVE) 
Downloading  URL(s):  https://tools.cisco.com/its/service/oddce/services/DDCEService 
Environment variable: 
           ds_email: carunach@cisco.com 
           ds_fsurl_prefix: scp://612345678:abcdefghijklmnop@cxd.cisco.com 

Downloaded DSes:

DS ID

DS Name

Revision

Status

Last Update (GMT+00:00)

64224

DS_LGW_CPU_MON75

0.0.10

Registered

2020-11-08 00:07:45

65095

DS_LGW_IEC_Call_spike_threshold

0.0.12

Running

2020-11-08 00:12:53

show call-home diagnostic-signature statistics

DS ID

DS Name

Triggered/Max/Deinstall

Average Run Time (seconds)

Max Run Time (seconds)

64224

DS_LGW_CPU_MON75

0/0/N

0.000

0.000

65095

DS_LGW_IEC_Call_spike_threshold

1/20/Y

23.053

23.053

The notification email that is sent during diagnostic signature execution contains key information such as issue type, device details, software version, running configuration, and show command outputs that are relevant to troubleshoot the given problem.

Uninstall diagnostic signatures

Use Diagnostic signatures for troubleshooting purposes are typically defined to uninstall after detection of some problem occurrences. If you want to uninstall a signature manually, retrieve the DS ID from the output of show call-home diagnostic-signature command and run the following command:

call-home diagnostic-signature deinstall <DS ID> 

Example:

call-home diagnostic-signature deinstall 64224 

 

New signatures are added to Diagnostics Signatures Lookup Tool periodically, based on issues that are commonly observed in deployments. TAC currently doesn’t support requests to create new custom signatures.

For better management of Cisco IOS XE Gateways, we recommend that you enroll and manage the gateways through the Control Hub. It is an optional configuration. When enrolled, you can use the configuration validation option in the Control Hub to validate your Local Gateway configuration and identify any configuration issues. Currently, only registration-based trunks support this functionality.

For more information, refer the following:

This document describes how to configure a Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) as a Local Gateway for Webex Calling, using a mutual TLS (mTLS) SIP trunk. The first part of this document illustrates how to configure a simple PSTN gateway. In this case, all calls from the PSTN are routed to Webex Calling and all calls from Webex Calling are routed to the PSTN. The following image highlights this solution and the high-level call routing configuration that will be followed.

In this design, the following principal configurations are used:

  • voice class uri: Used to classify inbound SIP messages and select an inbound dial-peer.

  • inbound dial-peer: Provides treatment for inbound SIP messages and determines the outbound route with a dial-peer group.

  • dial-peer group: Defines the outbound dial-peers used for onward call routing.

  • outbound dial-peer: Provides treatment for outbound SIP messages and routes them to the required target.

While interworking with an on-premises Cisco Unified Communications Manager solution and Webex Calling, you can use the simple PSTN gateway configuration as a baseline for building the solution illustrated in the following image. In this case, Unified Communications Manager provides centralized routing and treatment of all PSTN and Webex Calling calls. The high-level configuration approach is illustrated in the diagram.

Throughout this document, the host names, IP addresses, and interfaces illustrated in the following image are used. Options are provided for public or private (behind NAT) addressing. SRV DNS records are optional, unless load balancing across multiple CUBE instances.

Before you begin

  • Build a baseline configuration for your platform that follows your business policies. In particular, ensure that the following are configured and verified to be working correctly:

    • NTP

    • ACLs

    • User authentication and remote access

    • DNS

    • IP routing

    • IP Addresses

  • You require a minimum supported release of IOS XE 17.9 for all Local Gateway deployments.

    • ISR4000 series routers must be configured with both Unified Communications and Security technology licenses.

    • Catalyst Edge 8000 series routers require DNA Essentials licensing.

    • For high capacity requirements, you may also require a High Security (HSEC) license and additional throughput entitlement.

      Refer to Authorization Codes for further details.

  • The network toward Webex Calling must use a IPv4 address. Local Gateway Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) or Service Record (SRV) addresses must resolve to a public IPv4 address on the internet.

  • All SIP and media ports on the Local Gateway interface facing Webex must be accessible from the internet, either directly or via static NAT. Ensure that you update your firewall accordingly.

  • Install a signed certificate on the Local Gateway (detailed configuration steps are provided below).

    • A public Certificate Authority (CA) must sign the device certificate as detailed in  What Root Certificate Authorities are Supported for Calls to Cisco Webex Audio and Video Platforms?

    • The FQDN configured in the Control Hub must be the Common Name (CN) or Subject Alternate Name (SAN) of the router's certificate. For example:

      • If a trunk configured in your organization’s Control Hub has cube1.lgw.com:5061 as FQDN of the Local Gateway, then the CN or SAN in the router certificate must contain cube1.lgw.com. 

      • If a trunk configured in your organization’s Control Hub has lgws.lgw.com as the SRV address of the Local Gateway(s) reachable from the trunk, then the CN or SAN in the router certificate must contain lgws.lgw.com. The records that the SRV address resolves to (CNAME, A Record, or IP Address) are optional in SAN.

      • Whether you use an FQDN or SRV for the trunk, the contact address for all new SIP dialogs from your Local Gateway must have the name configured in Control Hub.

  • Ensure that certificates are signed for client and server usage.

  • Upload the trust bundle to the Local Gateway.

1

Ensure that you assign valid and routable IP addresses to any Layer 3 interfaces, for example:


interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
 description Interface facing PSTN and/or CUCM
 ip address 192.168.80.14 255.255.255.0
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
 description Interface facing Webex Calling (Public address)
 ip address 198.51.100.1 255.255.255.240

2

Create a encryption trustpoint with a certificate signed by your preferred Certificate Authority (CA).

  1. Create an RSA key pair using the following exec command.

    crypto key generate rsa general-keys exportable label lgw-key modulus 4096

  2. Create a trustpoint for the signed certificate with the following configuration commands:

    
    crypto pki trustpoint LGW_CERT
     enrollment terminal pem
     fqdn cube1.lgwtrunking.com
     subject-name cn=cube1.lgw.com
     subject-alt-name cube1.lgw.com
     revocation-check none
     rsakeypair lgw-key

  3. Generate Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with the following exec or configuration command and use this to request a signed certificate from a supported CA provider:

    crypto pki enroll LGW_CERT

3

Authenticate your new certificate using your intermediate (or root) CA certificate, then import the certificate. Enter the following exec or configuration command:


crypto pki authenticate LGW_CERT
<paste Intermediate X.509 base 64 based certificate here >

4

Import signed host certificate using the following exec or configuration command:


crypto pki import LGW_CERT certificate
<paste CUBE  X.509 base 64 certificate here>

5

Enable TLS1.2 exclusivity and specify the default trustpoint using the following configuration command:


 sip-ua
  crypto signaling default trustpoint LGW_CERT
  transport tcp tls v1.2

6

Install the Cisco root CA bundle, which includes the DigiCert CA certificate used by Webex Calling. Use the crypto pki trustpool import clean urlcommand to download the root CA bundle from the specified URL, and to clear the current CA trustpool, then install the new bundle of certificates:

crypto pki trustpool import clean url http://www.cisco.com/security/pki/trs/ios_core.p7b
1

Create a certificate-based trunk using your CUBE host name / SRV in Control Hub and assign it to the location. For more information, see Configure trunks, route groups, and dial plans for Webex Calling.

2

Use the configuration commands in the following section to configure CUBE with your Webex Calling and PSTN trunks:


voice service voip
 ip address trusted list
  ipv4 x.x.x.x y.y.y.y
 mode border-element
 allow-connections sip to sip
 no supplementary-service sip refer
 no supplementary-service sip handle-replaces
 sip 
  early-offer forced
  asymmetric payload full
  sip-profiles inbound

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

ip address trusted list

ipv4 x.x.x.x y.y.y.y

  • Defines the source IP addresses of entities from which the CUBE expects legitimate VoIP calls.

  • By default, CUBE blocks all incoming VoIP messages from IP addresses not in its trusted list. Statically configured dial-peers with “session target IP” or server group IP addresses are trusted by default and are not added to the trusted list.

  • When configuring your Local Gateway, add the IP subnets for your regional Webex Calling data center to the list. See Port Reference Information for Webex Calling for more information.

  • For more information on how to use an IP address trusted list to prevent toll fraud, see IP address trusted.

mode border-element

allow-connections sip to sip

Enable CUBE basic SIP back to back user agent functionality. For more information, see Allow connections.


 

By default, T.38 fax transport is enabled. For more information, see fax protocol t38 (voice-service).

early-offer forced

Forces the CUBE to send SDP information in the initial INVITE message instead of waiting for acknowledgment from the neighboring peer. For more information on this command, see early-offer.

asymmetric payload full

Configures SIP asymmetric payload support for both DTMF and dynamic codec payloads. For more information on this command, see asymmetric payload.

3

Configure voice class codec 100 codec filter for the trunk. In this example, the same codec filter is used for all trunks. You can configure filters for each trunk for precise control.


voice class codec 100
 codec preference 1 opus
 codec preference 2 g711ulaw
 codec preference 3 g711alaw

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

voice class codec 100

Used to only allow preferred codecs for calls through SIP trunks. For more information, see voice class codec.


 

Opus codec is supported only for SIP-based PSTN trunks. If the PSTN trunk uses a voice T1/E1 or analog FXO connection, exclude codec preference 1 opus from the voice class codec 100 configuration.

4

Configure voice class stun-usage 100 to enable ICE on the Webex Calling trunk.


voice class stun-usage 100 
 stun usage ice lite

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

voice class stun-usage 100

Used to enable ICE-Lite for all Webex Calling facing dial-peers to allow media-optimization whenever possible. For more information, see voice class stun usage and stun usage ice lite.


 

You require stun usage of ICE-lite for call flows using media path optimization. To provide media-optimization for a SIP to TDM gateway, configure a loopback dial-peer with ICE-Lite enabled on the IP-IP leg. For further technical details, contact the Account or TAC teams.

5

Configure the media encryption policy for Webex traffic.


voice class srtp-crypto 100
 crypto 1 AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_80

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

voice class srtp-crypto 100
Specifies SHA1_80 as the only SRTP cipher-suite CUBE offers in the SDP in offer and answer messages. Webex Calling only supports SHA1_80.
For more information, see voice class srtp-crypto.
6

Configure SIP message manipulation profiles. If your gateway is configured with a public IP address, configure a profile as follows or skip to the next section if you are using NAT. In the example, cube1.lgw.com is the FQDN selected for the Local Gateway and "198.51.100.1" is the public IP address of the Local Gateway interface facing Webex Calling:


voice class sip-profiles 100
 rule 10 request ANY sip-header Contact modify "198.51.100.1" "cube1.lgw.com" 
 rule 20 response ANY sip-header Contact modify "198.51.100.1" "cube1.lgw.com" 
 

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

rule 10, and rule 20

To allow Webex to authenticate messages from your local gateway, the 'Contact' header in SIP request and responses messages must contain the the value provisioned for the trunk in Control Hub. This will either be the FQDN of a single host, or the SRV domain name used for a cluster of devices.


 

Skip the next step, if you have configured your Local Gateway with public IP addresses.

7

If your gateway is configured with a private IP address behind static NAT, configure inbound and outbound SIP profiles as follows. In this example, cube1.lgw.com is the FQDN selected for the Local Gateway, "10.80.13.12" is the interface IP address facing Webex Calling and "192.65.79.20" is the NAT public IP address.

SIP profiles for outbound messages to Webex Calling

voice class sip-profiles 100
 rule 10 request ANY sip-header Contact modify "@.*:" "@cube1.lgw.com:"
 rule 11 response ANY sip-header Contact modify "@.*:" "@cube1.lgw.com:"
 rule 20 response ANY sdp-header Audio-Attribute modify "(a=candidate:1 1.*) 10.80.13.12" "\1 192.65.79.20"
 rule 30 response ANY sdp-header Audio-Attribute modify "(a=candidate:1 2.*) 10.80.13.12" "\1 192.65.79.20"
 rule 40 response ANY sdp-header Audio-Connection-Info modify "IN IP4 10.80.13.12" "IN IP4 192.65.79.20"
 rule 41 request ANY sdp-header Audio-Connection-Info modify "IN IP4 10.80.13.12" "IN IP4 192.65.79.20"
 rule 50 request ANY sdp-header Connection-Info modify "IN IP4 10.80.13.12" "IN IP4 192.65.79.20"
 rule 51 response ANY sdp-header Connection-Info modify "IN IP4 10.80.13.12" "IN IP4 192.65.79.20"
 rule 60 response ANY sdp-header Session-Owner modify "IN IP4 10.80.13.12" "IN IP4 192.65.79.20"
 rule 61 request ANY sdp-header Session-Owner modify "IN IP4 10.80.13.12" "IN IP4 192.65.79.20"
 rule 80 request ANY sdp-header Audio-Attribute modify "(a=rtcp:.*) 10.80.13.12" "\1 192.65.79.20"
 rule 81 response ANY sdp-header Audio-Attribute modify "(a=rtcp:.*) 10.80.13.12" "\1 192.65.79.20
 rule 91 request ANY sdp-header Audio-Attribute modify "(a=candidate:1 1.*) 10.80.13.12" "\1 192.65.79.20"
 rule 93 request ANY sdp-header Audio-Attribute modify "(a=candidate:1 2.*) 10.80.13.12" "\1 192.65.79.20"
SIP profiles for inbound messages from Webex Calling

voice class sip-profiles 110
 rule 10 response ANY sdp-header Video-Connection-Info modify "IN IP4 192.65.79.20" "IN IP4 10.80.13.12"
 rule 20 response ANY sip-header Contact modify "@.*:" "@cube1.lgw.com:"
 rule 30 response ANY sdp-header Connection-Info modify "IN IP4 192.65.79.20" "IN IP4 10.80.13.12"
 rule 40 response ANY sdp-header Audio-Connection-Info modify "IN IP4 192.65.79.20" "IN IP4 10.80.13.12"
 rule 60 response ANY sdp-header Session-Owner modify "IN IP4 192.65.79.20" "IN IP4 10.80.13.12"
 rule 70 response ANY sdp-header Audio-Attribute modify "(a=candidate:1 1.*) 192.65.79.20" "\1 10.80.13.12"
 rule 80 response ANY sdp-header Audio-Attribute modify "(a=candidate:1 2.*) 192.65.79.20" "\1 10.80.13.12"
 rule 90 response ANY sdp-header Audio-Attribute modify "(a=rtcp:.*) 192.65.79.20" "\1 10.80.13.12"

For more information, see voice class sip-profiles.

8

Configure a SIP Options keepalive with header modification profile.


voice class sip-profiles 115
 rule 10 request OPTIONS sip-header Contact modify "<sip:.*:" "<sip:cube1.lgw.com:" 
 rule 30 request ANY sip-header Via modify "(SIP.*) 10.80.13.12" "\1 192.65.79.20"
 rule 40 response ANY sdp-header Connection-Info modify "IN IP4 10.80.13.12" "IN IP4 192.65.79.20"  
 rule 50 response ANY sdp-header Audio-Connection-Info modify "IN IP4 10.80.13.12" "IN IP4 192.65.79.20"
!
voice class sip-options-keepalive 100
 description Keepalive for Webex calling
 up-interval 5
 transport tcp tls
 sip-profiles 115

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

voice class sip-options-keepalive 100

Configures a keepalive profile and enters voice class configuration mode. You can configure the time (in seconds) at which an SIP Out of Dialog Options Ping is sent to the dial-target when the heartbeat connection to the endpoint is in UP or Down status.

This keepalive profile is triggered from the dial-peer configured towards Webex.

To ensure that the contact headers include the SBC fully qualified domain name, SIP profile 115 is used. Rules 30, 40, and 50 are required only when the SBC is configured with static NAT.

In this example, cube1.lgw.com is the FQDN selected for the Local Gateway and if static NAT is used, "10.80.13.12" is the SBC interface IP address towards Webex Calling and "192.65.79.20" is the NAT public IP address.

9

Configure URI matching profile for classifying incoming messages from Webex Calling.


voice class uri 110 sip
 pattern cube1.lgw.com

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

voice class uri 100 sip

Defines the FQDN match pattern for an incoming call from Webex Calling. See voice class uri sip preference.

10

Configure Webex Calling trunk:

  1. We recommend using tenants to configure common behaviours for dial-peers associated with a specific trunk:

    
    voice class tenant 100
      no remote-party-id
      srtp-crypto 100
      localhost dns:cube1.lgw.com
      session transport tcp tls
      no session refresh
      error-passthru
      bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
      bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
      no pass-thru content custom-sdp
      privacy-policy passthru
    !

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    voice-class tenant 100

    We recommend that you use tenants to configure trunks which have their own TLS certificate, and CN or SAN validation list. Here, the tls-profile associated with the tenant contains the trust point to be used to accept or create new connections, and has the CN or SAN list to validate the incoming connections.

    no remote-party-id

    Disables Remote-Party-ID translation.

    srtp-crypto 100

    Configures the preferred cipher-suites for the SRTP call leg (connection). For more information, see voice class srtp-crypto.

    localhost dns:cube1.lgw.com

    Configures CUBE to replace the physical IP address in the From, Call-ID, and Remote-Party-ID headers in outgoing messages with the provided FQDN.

    session transport tcp tls

    Sets transport to TLS. For more information, see session-transport.

    no session refresh

    Disables SIP session refresh globally.

    bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1

    Configures the source interface and associated IP address for messages sent to Webex Calling. For more information, see bind.

    bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1

    Configures the source interface and associated IP address for media sent to Webex Calling. For more information, see bind.

    privacy-policy passthru

    Configures the privacy header policy options for the trunk to pass privacy values from the received message to the next call leg.

  2. Configure outbound dial-peer toward Webex Calling.

    
    dial-peer voice 100 voip
     description OutBound Webex Calling
     destination-pattern bad.bad
     session protocol sipv2
     session target dns:<your edge proxy address>
     session transport tcp tls
     voice-class codec 100
     voice-class stun-usage 100
     voice-class sip rel1xx disable
     voice-class sip asserted-id pai
     voice-class sip profiles 100
     voice-class sip tenant 100
     voice-class sip options-keepalive profile 100
     dtmf-relay rtp-nte
     srtp
     no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 100 voip

    description OutBound Webex Calling

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 100 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting. For more information, see dial-peer voice.

    destination-pattern bad.bad

    A dummy destination pattern is required when routing outbound calls using an inbound dial-peer group.

    session protocol sipv2

    Specifies that dial-peer 100 handles SIP call legs. For more information, see session protocol (dial-peer).

    session target dns:<your edge proxy address>

    Defines the Webex Calling edge proxy SRV address from Control Hub to where calls are sent. For example, session target dns:us01.sipconnect.bcld.webex.com. For more information, see session target (VoIP dial-peer).

    session transport tcp tls

    The SIP dial peer uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) over the TCP transport layer protocol.

    voice-class codec 100

    Indicates codec filter list for calls to and from Webex Calling. For more information, see voice class codec.

    voice-class sip profiles 100

    Applies the header modification profile (Public IP or NAT addressing) to use for outbound messages. For more information, see voice-class sip profiles.

    voice-class sip tenant 100

    Adds this dial-peer to tenant 100, from where it will receive all common trunk configurations.

    voice-class sip options-keepalive profile 100

    This command is used to monitor the availability of a group of SIP servers or endpoints using a specific profile (100).

11

Create a dial-peer group based on the dial-peer toward Webex Calling.

  1. Define DPG 100 with outbound dial-peer 100 toward Webex Calling. DPG 100 is applied to the incoming dial-peer from the PSTN.


voice class dpg 100
 description Incoming Webex Calling to IP PSTN
 dial-peer 100 

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

dial-peer 100

Associates an outbound dial-peer with dial-peer group 100. For more information, see dial-peer voice.

12

Configure an inbound dial-peer to receive messages from Webex Calling. Incoming match is based on the URI request.


dial-peer voice 110 voip 
 description Inbound dial-peer from Webex Calling
 session protocol sipv2
 session transport tcp tls
 destination dpg 200
 incoming uri request 110
 voice-class codec 100
 voice-class stun-usage 100 
 voice-class sip profiles 110 
 voice-class sip srtp-crypto 100
 voice-class sip tenant 100 
 srtp

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

voice class uri 100 sip

To create or modify a voice class for matching dial peers to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) uniform resource identifier (URI). For more information, see voice class uri.

session transport tcp tls

Sets transport to TLS. For more information, see session-transport .

destination dpg 200

Specifies a dial-peer group 200 to select an outbound dial-peer towards the PSTN or Unified Communications Manager. For more information on dial-peer groups, see voice-class dpg.

incoming uri request 110

To specify the voice class used to match a VoIP dial peer to the uniform resource identifier (URI) of an incoming call. For more information, see incoming uri.

voice-class sip profile 110

Only required where CUBE is behind static NAT, SIP profile 110 modifies the public IP address to the private interface address. For more information, see voice class sip-profiles.

voice-class srtp-crypto 100

Configures the preferred cipher-suites for the SRTP call leg (connection). For more information, see voice class srtp-crypto.

voice-class sip tenant 100

Associates this dial-peer with the trunk tenant, allowing it to inherit all associated configurations. For more information, see voice-class sip tenant.

srtp

Specifies that all calls using this dial-peer should use encrypted media. For more information, see srtp.

Having built a trunk towards Webex Calling above, use the following configuration to create a non-encrypted trunk towards a SIP based PSTN provider:


 

If your Service Provider offers a secure PSTN trunk, you may follow a similar configuration as detailed above for the Webex Calling trunk. Secure to secure call routing is supported by CUBE.

1

Configure the following voice class uri to identify inbound calls from the PSTN trunk:


voice class uri 210 sip
  host ipv4:192.168.80.13

2

Configure the following outbound dial-peer towards the PSTN IP trunk:


dial-peer voice 200 voip
 description Outgoing dial-peer to IP PSTN
 destination-pattern BAD.BAD
 session protocol sipv2
 session target ipv4:192.168.80.13 
 voice-class codec 100
 dtmf-relay rtp-nte 
 no vad

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

dial-peer voice 200 voip

description Outgoing dial-peer to PSTN

Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 200 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting. For more information, see dial-peer voice.

destination-pattern BAD.BAD

A dummy destination pattern is required when routing outbound calls using an inbound dial-peer group. For more information, see destination-pattern (interface).

session protocol sipv2

Specifies that dial-peer 200 handles SIP call legs. For more information, see session protocol (dial peer).

session target ipv4:192.168.80.13

Indicates the destination’s target IPv4 address to send the call leg. The session target here is ITSP’s IP address. For more information, see session target (VoIP dial peer).

voice-class codec 100

Configures the dial-peer to use the common codec filter list 100. For more information, see voice-class codec.

dtmf-relay rtp-nte

Defines RTP-NTE (RFC2833) as the DTMF capability expected on the call leg. For more information, see DTMF Relay (Voice over IP).

no vad

Disables voice activity detection. For more information, see vad (dial peer).

3

Configure the following Dial-peer Group (DPG):

  1. Define DPG 200 with outbound dial-peer 200 towards the PSTN. Apply DPG 200 to the incoming dial-peer from Webex Calling.

    
    voice class dpg 200
     description Incoming IP PSTN to Webex Calling
     dial-peer 200 

4

Configure the following inbound dial-peer:

  1. Inbound dial-peer for incoming IP PSTN call legs:

    
    dial-peer voice 210 voip
     description Incoming dial-peer from PSTN 
     session protocol sipv2
     destination dpg 100 
     incoming uri via 210 
     voice-class codec 100 
     dtmf-relay rtp-nte
     no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 210 voip

    description Incoming dial-peer from PSTN

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 210 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting. For more information, see dial-peer voice.

    session protocol sipv2

    Specifies that dial-peer 210 handles SIP call legs. For more information, see session protocol (dial peer).

    incoming uri via 210

    Defines a match criterion for the VIA header with the IP PSTN’s IP address. Matches all incoming IP PSTN call legs on the Local Gateway with dial-peer 210. For more information, see incoming url.

    destination dpg 100

    Bypasses the classic outbound dial-peer matching criteria in Local Gateway with the destination DPG 100 towards Webex Calling. For more information on configuring dial peer groups, see voice-class dpg.

    no vad

    Disables voice activity detection. For more information, see vad (dial peer).

The PSTN-Webex Calling configuration in the previous sections may be modified to include an additional trunk to a Cisco Unified Communications Manager (UCM) cluster. In this case, all calls are routed via Unified CM. Calls from UCM to port 5060 are routed to the PSTN and calls to port 5065 are routed to Webex Calling. The following incremental and updated configurations may be added to include this calling scenario.

1

Configure the following voice class URIs:

  1. Classifies Unified CM to Webex calls using SIP VIA port:

    
    voice class uri 310 sip
     pattern :5065
    

  2. Classifies Unified CM to PSTN calls using SIP via port:

    
    voice class uri 410 sip
     pattern :5060
    

2

Configure the following DNS records to specify SRV routing to Unified CM hosts:


 

IOS XE uses these records for locally determining target UCM hosts and ports. With this configuration, it is not required to configure records in your DNS system. If you prefer to use your DNS, then these local configurations are not required.


ip host ucmpub.mydomain.com 192.168.80.60
ip host ucmsub1.mydomain.com 192.168.80.61
ip host ucmsub2.mydomain.com 192.168.80.62
ip host ucmsub3.mydomain.com 192.168.80.63
ip host ucmsub4.mydomain.com 192.168.80.64
ip host ucmsub5.mydomain.com 192.168.80.65
ip host _sip._udp.wxtocucm.io srv 0 1 5065 ucmpub.mydomain.com
ip host _sip._udp.wxtocucm.io srv 2 1 5065 ucmsub1.mydomain.com
ip host _sip._udp.wxtocucm.io srv 2 1 5065 ucmsub2.mydomain.com
ip host _sip._udp.wxtocucm.io srv 2 1 5065 ucmsub3.mydomain.com
ip host _sip._udp.wxtocucm.io srv 2 1 5065 ucmsub4.mydomain.com
ip host _sip._udp.wxtocucm.io srv 2 1 5065 ucmsub5.mydomain.com
ip host _sip._udp.pstntocucm.io srv 0 1 5060 ucmpub.mydomain.com
ip host _sip._udp.pstntocucm.io srv 2 1 5060 ucmsub1.mydomain.com
ip host _sip._udp.pstntocucm.io srv 2 1 5060 ucmsub2.mydomain.com
ip host _sip._udp.pstntocucm.io srv 2 1 5060 ucmsub3.mydomain.com
ip host _sip._udp.pstntocucm.io srv 2 1 5060 ucmsub4.mydomain.com
ip host _sip._udp.pstntocucm.io srv 2 1 5060 ucmsub5.mydomain.com

Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

The following command creates a DNS SRV resource record. Create a record for each host and trunk:

ip host _sip._udp.pstntocucm.io srv 2 1 5060 ucmsub5.mydomain.com

_sip._udp.pstntocucm.io: SRV resource record name

2: The SRV resource record priority

1: The SRV resource record weight

5060: The port number to use for the target host in this resource record

ucmsub5.mydomain.com: The resource record target host

To resolve the resource record target host name, create local DNS A records, for example:

ip host ucmsub5.mydomain.com 192.168.80.65

ip host: Creates a record in the local IOS XE database.

ucmsub5.mydomain.com: The A record host name.

192.168.80.65: The host IP address.

Create the SRV resource records and A records to reflect your UCM environment and preferred call distribution strategy.

3

Configure the following outbound dial-peers:

  1. Outbound dial-peer toward Unified CM from Webex Calling:

    
    dial-peer voice 300 voip
     description Outgoing dial-peer to CUCM from Webex Calling
     destination-pattern BAD.BAD
     session protocol sipv2
     session target dns:wxtocucm.io
     voice-class codec 100
     voice-class sip bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/0
     voice-class sip bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/0
     dtmf-relay rtp-nte
     no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 300 voip

    description Outgoing dial-peer to CUCM from Webex Calling

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag 300 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    session target dns:wxtocucm.io

    Defines the session target of multiple Unified CM nodes through DNS SRV resolution.

  2. Outbound dial-peer toward Unified CM from the PSTN:

    
    dial-peer voice 400 voip
     description Outgoing dial-peer to CUCM from PSTN
     destination-pattern BAD.BAD
     session protocol sipv2
     session target dns:pstntocucm.io
     voice-class codec 100 
     voice-class sip bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/0
     voice-class sip bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/0
     dtmf-relay rtp-nte
     no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 400 voip

    description Outgoing dial-peer to CUCM from PSTN

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 400 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting.

    session target dns:pstntocucm.io

    Defines the session target of multiple Unified CM nodes through DNS SRV resolution.

4

Configure the following dial-peer group (DPG) for calls towards Unified CM:

  1. Define DPG 300 for outbound dial-peer 300 for calls to Unified CM from Webex Calling:

    
    voice class dpg 300
     dial-peer 300
     

  2. Define DPG 400 for outbound dial-peer 400 for calls to Unified CM from the PSTN:

    
    voice class dpg 400
     dial-peer 400
    

5

Modify the following inbound dial-peers to route PSTN and Webex Calling calls to Unified CM:

  1. Modify inbound dial-peer for calls from Webex Calling:

    
    dial-peer voice 110 voip
     no destination dpg 200
     destination dpg 300
    

  2. Modify inbound dial-peer for calls from the PSTN:

    
    dial-peer voice 210 voip
     no destination dpg 100 
     destination dpg 400
    
  3. Add an incoming dial peer for calls from UCM toward Webex Calling:

    
    dial-peer voice 310 voip
     description Incoming dial-peer from CUCM for Webex Calling
     session protocol sipv2
     destination dpg 100
     incoming uri via 310 
     voice-class codec 100
     dtmf-relay rtp-nte
     no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 310 voip

    description Incoming dial-peer from CUCM for Webex Calling

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 310 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting. For more information, see dial-peer voice.

    incoming uri via 310

    Specifies the voice class URI 310 to all incoming traffic from Unified CM to LGW on the via source port (5065). For more information, see incoming uri.

    destination dpg 100

    Specifies dial peer group 100 to select an outbound dial peer toward Webex Calling. For more information on configuring dial peer groups, see voice class dpg.

  4. Inbound dial-peer for incoming Unified CM call legs with PSTN as the destination:

    
    dial-peer voice 410 voip
     description Incoming dial-peer from CUCM for PSTN
     session protocol sipv2
     destination dpg 200
     incoming uri via 410
     voice-class codec 100
     dtmf-relay rtp-nte
     no vad
    

    Here's an explanation of the fields for the configuration:

    dial-peer voice 311 voip

    description Incoming dial-peer from CUCM for PSTN

    Defines a VoIP dial-peer with a tag of 410 and gives a meaningful description for ease of management and troubleshooting. For more information, see dial-peer voice.

    incoming uri via 311

    Specifies the voice class URI 410 to match all incoming traffic from Unified CM to a Local Gateway for a PSTN destination on VIA port. For more information, see incoming uri.

    destination dpg 200

    Specifies dial peer group 200 to select an outbound dial peer towards the PSTN. For more information on configuring dial peer groups, see voice class dpg.

Diagnostic Signatures (DS) proactively detects commonly observed issues in the Cisco IOS XE-based Local Gateway and generates email, syslog, or terminal message notification of the event. You can also install the DS to automate diagnostics data collection and transfer collected data to the Cisco TAC case to accelerate resolution time.

Diagnostic Signatures (DS) are XML files that contain information about problem trigger events and actions to inform, troubleshoot, and remediate the issue. Use syslog messages, SNMP events and through periodic monitoring of specific show command outputs to define the problem detection logic. The action types include:

  • Collecting show command outputs

  • Generating a consolidated log file

  • Uploading the file to a user provided network location such as HTTPS, SCP, FTP server

TAC engineers author DS files and digitally sign it for integrity protection. Each DS file has the unique numerical ID assigned by the system. Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool (DSLT) is a single source to find applicable signatures for monitoring and troubleshooting various problems.

Before you begin:

  • Do not edit the DS file that you download from DSLT. The files that you modify fail installation due to the integrity check error.

  • A Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server you require for the Local Gateway to send out email notifications.

  • Ensure that the Local Gateway is running IOS XE 17.6.1 or higher if you wish to use the secure SMTP server for email notifications.

Prerequisites

Local Gateway running IOS XE 17.6.1 or higher

  1. Diagnostic Signatures is enabled by default.

  2. Configure the secure email server that you use to send proactive notification if the device is running IOS XE 17.6.1 or higher.

    
    configure terminal 
    call-home  
    mail-server <username>:<pwd>@<email server> priority 1 secure tls 
    end 

  3. Configure the environment variable ds_email with the email address of the administrator to you notify.

    
    configure terminal 
    call-home  
    diagnostic-signature 
    LocalGateway(cfg-call-home-diag-sign)environment ds_email <email address> 
    end 

Install diagnostic signatures for proactive monitoring

Monitoring high CPU utilization

This DS tracks 5-seconds CPU utilization using the SNMP OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.56. When the utilization reaches 75% or more, it disables all debugs and uninstalls all diagnostic signatures that you install in the Local Gateway. Use these steps below to install the signature.

  1. Ensure that you enabled SNMP using the command show snmp. If SNMP is not enabled, then configure the snmp-server manager command.

    
    show snmp 
    %SNMP agent not enabled  
    
    config t 
    snmp-server manager 
    end  
    
    show snmp 
    Chassis: ABCDEFGHIGK 
    149655 SNMP packets input 
        0 Bad SNMP version errors 
        1 Unknown community name 
        0 Illegal operation for community name supplied 
        0 Encoding errors 
        37763 Number of requested variables 
        2 Number of altered variables 
        34560 Get-request PDUs 
        138 Get-next PDUs 
        2 Set-request PDUs 
        0 Input queue packet drops (Maximum queue size 1000) 
    158277 SNMP packets output 
        0 Too big errors (Maximum packet size 1500) 
        20 No such name errors 
        0 Bad values errors 
        0 General errors 
        7998 Response PDUs 
        10280 Trap PDUs 
    Packets currently in SNMP process input queue: 0 
    SNMP global trap: enabled 
    
  2. Download DS 64224 using the following drop-down options in Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool:

    copy ftp://username:password@<server name or ip>/DS_64224.xml bootflash:

    Field Name

    Field Value

    Platform

    Cisco 4300, 4400 ISR Series, or Catalyst 8000V Edge Software

    Product

    CUBE Enterprise in Webex Calling solution

    Problem Scope

    Performance

    Problem Type

    High CPU Utilization with Email Notification

  3. Copy the DS XML file to the Local Gateway flash.

    copy ftp://username:password@<server name or ip>/DS_64224.xml bootflash:

    The following example shows copying the file from an FTP server to the Local Gateway.

    copy ftp://user:pwd@192.0.2.12/DS_64224.xml bootflash: 
    Accessing ftp://*:*@ 192.0.2.12/DS_64224.xml...! 
    [OK - 3571/4096 bytes] 
    3571 bytes copied in 0.064 secs (55797 bytes/sec) 
    
  4. Install the DS XML file in the Local Gateway.

    
    call-home diagnostic-signature load DS_64224.xml 
    Load file DS_64224.xml success  
  5. Use the show call-home diagnostic-signature command to verify that the signature is successfully installed. The status column must have a “registered” value.

    
    show call-home diagnostic-signature  
    Current diagnostic-signature settings: 
     Diagnostic-signature: enabled 
     Profile: CiscoTAC-1 (status: ACTIVE) 
     Downloading  URL(s):  https://tools.cisco.com/its/service/oddce/services/DDCEService 
     Environment variable: 
               ds_email: username@gmail.com 

    Download DSes:

    DS ID

    DS Name

    Revision

    Status

    Last Update (GMT+00:00)

    64224

    DS_LGW_CPU_MON75

    0.0.10

    Registered

    2020-11-07 22:05:33


     

    When triggered, this signature uninstalls all running DSs including itself. If necessary, please reinstall DS 64224 to continue monitoring high CPU utilization on the Local Gateway.

Monitoring abnormal call disconnects

This DS uses SNMP polling every 10 minutes to detect abnormal call disconnect with SIP errors 403, 488 and 503.  If the error count increment is greater than or equal to 5 from the last poll, it generates a syslog and email notification. Please use the steps below to install the signature.

  1. Ensure that SNMP is enabled using the command show snmp. If SNMP is not enabled, configure the snmp-server manager command.

    show snmp 
    %SNMP agent not enabled  
    
    config t 
    snmp-server manager 
    end  
    
    show snmp 
    Chassis: ABCDEFGHIGK 
    149655 SNMP packets input 
        0 Bad SNMP version errors 
        1 Unknown community name 
        0 Illegal operation for community name supplied 
        0 Encoding errors 
        37763 Number of requested variables 
        2 Number of altered variables 
        34560 Get-request PDUs 
        138 Get-next PDUs 
        2 Set-request PDUs 
        0 Input queue packet drops (Maximum queue size 1000) 
    158277 SNMP packets output 
        0 Too big errors (Maximum packet size 1500) 
        20 No such name errors 
        0 Bad values errors 
        0 General errors 
        7998 Response PDUs 
        10280 Trap PDUs 
    Packets currently in SNMP process input queue: 0 
    SNMP global trap: enabled 
  2. Download DS 65221 using the following options in Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool:

    Field Name

    Field Value

    Platform

    Cisco 4300, 4400 ISR Series, or Catalyst 8000V Edge Software

    Product

    CUBE Enterprise in Webex Calling Solution

    Problem Scope

    Performance

    Problem Type

    SIP abnormal call disconnect detection with Email and Syslog Notification.

  3. Copy the DS XML file to the Local Gateway.

    copy ftp://username:password@<server name or ip>/DS_65221.xml bootflash:
  4. Install the DS XML file in the Local Gateway.

    
    call-home diagnostic-signature load DS_65221.xml 
    Load file DS_65221.xml success 
  5. Use the command show call-home diagnostic-signature to verify that the signature is successfully installed. The status column should have a “registered” value.

Install diagnostic signatures to troubleshoot a problem

You can also use Diagnostic Signatures (DS) to resolve issues quickly. Cisco TAC engineers have authored several signatures that enable the necessary debugs that are required to troubleshoot a given problem, detect the problem occurrence, collect the right set of diagnostic data and transfer the data automatically to the Cisco TAC case. This eliminates the need to manually check for the problem occurrence and makes troubleshooting of intermittent and transient issues a lot easier.

You can use the Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool to find the applicable signatures and install them to selfsolve a given issue or you can install the signature that is recommended by the TAC engineer as part of the support engagement.

Here is an example of how to find and install a DS to detect the occurrence “%VOICE_IEC-3-GW: CCAPI: Internal Error (call spike threshold): IEC=1.1.181.1.29.0" syslog and automate diagnostic data collection using the following steps:

  1. Configure another DS environment variable ds_fsurl_prefix as the Cisco TAC file server path (cxd.cisco.com) to upload the diagnostics data. The username in the file path is the case number and the password is the file upload token which can be retrieved from Support Case Manager as shown in the following. The file upload token can be generated in the Attachments section of the Support Case Manager, as required.

    
    configure terminal 
    call-home  
    diagnostic-signature 
    LocalGateway(cfg-call-home-diag-sign)environment ds_fsurl_prefix "scp://<case number>:<file upload token>@cxd.cisco.com"  
    end 

    Example:

    
    call-home  
    diagnostic-signature 
    environment ds_fsurl_prefix " environment ds_fsurl_prefix "scp://612345678:abcdefghijklmnop@cxd.cisco.com"  
  2. Ensure that SNMP is enabled using the command show snmp. If SNMP not enabled, configure the snmp-server manager command.

    
    show snmp 
    %SNMP agent not enabled 
     
    config t 
    snmp-server manager 
    end 
  3. We recommend installing the High CPU monitoring DS 64224 as a proactive measure to disable all debugs and diagnostics signatures during the time of high CPU utilization. Download DS 64224 using the following options in Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool:

    Field Name

    Field Value

    Platform

    Cisco 4300, 4400 ISR Series, or Catalyst 8000V Edge Software

    Product

    CUBE Enterprise in Webex Calling Solution

    Problem Scope

    Performance

    Problem Type

    High CPU Utilization with Email Notification.

  4. Download DS 65095 using the following options in Diagnostic Signatures Lookup Tool:

    Field Name

    Field Value

    Platform

    Cisco 4300, 4400 ISR Series, or Catalyst 8000V Edge Software

    Product

    CUBE Enterprise in Webex Calling Solution

    Problem Scope

    Syslogs

    Problem Type

    Syslog - %VOICE_IEC-3-GW: CCAPI: Internal Error (Call spike threshold): IEC=1.1.181.1.29.0

  5. Copy the DS XML files to the Local Gateway.

    
    copy ftp://username:password@<server name or ip>/DS_64224.xml bootflash: 
    copy ftp://username:password@<server name or ip>/DS_65095.xml bootflash: 
  6. Install the high CPU monitoring DS 64224 and then DS 65095 XML file in the Local Gateway.

    
    call-home diagnostic-signature load DS_64224.xml 
    Load file DS_64224.xml success 
    call-home diagnostic-signature load DS_65095.xml 
    Load file DS_65095.xml success 
    
  7. Verify that the signature is successfully installed using show call-home diagnostic-signature. The status column should have a “registered” value.

    
    show call-home diagnostic-signature  
    Current diagnostic-signature settings: 
     Diagnostic-signature: enabled 
     Profile: CiscoTAC-1 (status: ACTIVE) 
     Downloading  URL(s):  https://tools.cisco.com/its/service/oddce/services/DDCEService 
     Environment variable: 
               ds_email: username@gmail.com 
               ds_fsurl_prefix: scp://612345678:abcdefghijklmnop@cxd.cisco.com 

    Downloaded DSes:

    DS ID

    DS Name

    Revision

    Status

    Last Update (GMT+00:00)

    64224

    00:07:45

    DS_LGW_CPU_MON75

    0.0.10

    Registered

    2020-11-08:00:07:45

    65095

    00:12:53

    DS_LGW_IEC_Call_spike_threshold

    0.0.12

    Registered

    2020-11-08:00:12:53

Verify diagnostic signatures execution

In the following command, the “Status” column of the command show call-home diagnostic-signature changes to “running” while the Local Gateway executes the action defined within the signature. The output of show call-home diagnostic-signature statistics is the best way to verify whether a diagnostic signature detects an event of interest and executed the action. The “Triggered/Max/Deinstall” column indicates the number of times the given signature has triggered an event, the maximum number of times it is defined to detect an event and whether the signature deinstalls itself after detecting the maximum number of triggered events.

show call-home diagnostic-signature  
Current diagnostic-signature settings: 
 Diagnostic-signature: enabled 
 Profile: CiscoTAC-1 (status: ACTIVE) 
 Downloading  URL(s):  https://tools.cisco.com/its/service/oddce/services/DDCEService 
 Environment variable: 
           ds_email: carunach@cisco.com 
           ds_fsurl_prefix: scp://612345678:abcdefghijklmnop@cxd.cisco.com 

Downloaded DSes:

DS ID

DS Name

Revision

Status

Last Update (GMT+00:00)

64224

DS_LGW_CPU_MON75

0.0.10

Registered

2020-11-08 00:07:45

65095

DS_LGW_IEC_Call_spike_threshold

0.0.12

Running

2020-11-08 00:12:53

show call-home diagnostic-signature statistics

DS ID

DS Name

Triggered/Max/Deinstall

Average Run Time (seconds)

Max Run Time (seconds)

64224

DS_LGW_CPU_MON75

0/0/N

0.000

0.000

65095

DS_LGW_IEC_Call_spike_threshold

1/20/Y

23.053

23.053

The notification email that is sent during Diagnostic Signature execution contains key information such as issue type, device details, software version, running configuration and show command outputs that are relevant to troubleshoot the given problem.

Uninstall diagnostic signatures

Use the diagnostic signatures for troubleshooting purposes are typically defined to uninstall after detection of some problem occurrences. If you wish to uninstall a signature manually, retrieve the DS ID from the output of show call-home diagnostic-signature and run the following command:

call-home diagnostic-signature deinstall <DS ID> 

Example:

call-home diagnostic-signature deinstall 64224 

 

New signatures are added to the Diagnostics Signatures Lookup Tool periodically, based on issues that are observed in deployments. TAC currently doesn’t support requests to create new custom signatures.