08-11-2010 12:42 PM - edited 03-16-2019 12:12 AM
Hello - I'm not sure on how to make this work. I need my primary h.323 gateway, Cisco 1900 router, to failover to the seconday h.323 gateway, cisco 1900 router, when the primary fails. We are pushing t1s/PRIs. Cisco Call Manager is routing the calls to the gatways. Thanks
08-11-2010 01:23 PM
You'll need to add both H.323 gateways to callmanager and use the Route Group configuration to setup the order in which you want them to be used.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/admin/6_1_1/ccmcfg/b03rtgrp.html
You'll then need to add the Route Groups into a Routelist and apply it under the Route pattern
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/admin/6_1_1/ccmcfg/b03rtlst.html
-Felipe
08-11-2010 01:35 PM
08-11-2010 02:15 PM
Try Changing the Service Parameter "Stop Routing on User Busy Flag" on Call Manager to false.
08-11-2010 02:24 PM
What will that do?
08-11-2010 05:27 PM
There are two options for the failover, in CUCM change this 2 service parameters:
Stop Routing on Unallocated Number Flag = False
Stop Routing on User Busy Flag = False
Otherwise CUCM won't hunt to the next GW.
Or add this command to the GW
no dial-peer outbound status-check pots
This has been asked a lot of times before, please try searching for answers before posting.
HTH
java
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08-11-2010 06:33 PM
I tried ithe Services Parameters and it didn't work. A TAC engineer told me it couldn't be done with H.323 and that MGCP can. Is he right?
08-12-2010 05:45 AM
I am sure this can be done with H323. I have a question for the support community on this though, cant he just add a voip dial peer with a lower preference and point that to his second H323 gateway and all is good? You wouldnt even need to add the second gateway to a route group either correct? Although that would be the obvious way of handling it.
08-12-2010 07:02 AM
Thanks
I think you are refering to "overflow" and not "failover". I need to be able to failover automatically to the second gateway should the PRIs or the server on the primary fail. The second gateway will take over and feed the traffic into its secodary server.
however - I will need to incorpate overflow too, but after I can get the failover to work. Thanks
08-12-2010 09:17 AM
Tracy - can you give me an example fo this solution please? Thanks
08-12-2010 10:07 AM
For overflow I believe you would just create a voip dial-peer with a lower preference with the session target pointing to the ip address of the gateway you want to overflow to.
example:
if your pots dial peer for normal operation on the gateway looked like this
dial-peer voice 1 pots
translation-profile outgoing fallback
preference 1
destination-pattern 8[2-9]......
direct-inward-dial
port 0/1/0:23
forward-digits 7
Then the voip dial peer for overflow might look like this when that is unavailable.
dial-peer voice 2 voip
preference 4
destination-pattern 8[2-9]......
modem passthrough nse codec g711ulaw
voice-class codec 1
voice-class h323 1
session target ipv4:Overflow Gateway IP address
incoming called-number .
dtmf-relay h245-alphanumeric
fax rate disable
no vad
Java or Bill will be able to say if this would work correctly or not.
08-12-2010 06:54 AM
Yes, it's possible.
https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/1157495#1157495
https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/1131386#1131386
https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/1329453#1329453
https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/1236504#1236504
I'd look at your config because as you can see, it works.
HTH
java
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08-12-2010 08:13 AM
I tried this and it didn't work. TAC checked my configuration and said it was OK, but he also said the failover won't work because it's h.323. I'm not sure what to do...other than go with MGCP. Thanks
08-12-2010 08:59 AM
In H.323 the failover works only when the primary gateway itself goes off-line, and not when the
server it's feeding or it's PRIs go down. Just tested this. Thanks
08-12-2010 09:25 AM
Can someone give me an example on how to make one gw overflow to a second gateway? I might be able to use this as an alternate solution.
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