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Extension Mobility-simplified

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Iwontremember

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Jun 7, 2006
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Extension Mobilty allows your cell or another phone to ring at the same time as your IP phone and if the call is taken on the cell you can hang up from the call and it will put the caller on hold until you pick up the call on your Cisco phone.


Step 1.- End User configuration, Enabling Mobility
Go to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration page
Select User Management
Select End User
Click ADD NEW and proceed to create an End User, for the purposes of this document I will be creating user named mobilityuser
You may create the end user as usual with the exception that you must check the enable mobility check box and select SAVE, great you have just created an End user with the mobility feature enabled

Step 2.-Creating a mobility SoftKey template
Go to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration page
Select Device
Select Device Settings
Select Softkey Template
Select ADD New
The system will ask you as to what sofktey template to be used as your new template to be based on, I will select for the purposes of this document the "Standard User" template then select Copy, here you will need to change the name of the Standard User Softkey Template for something that is appropriate, in my case I will change the name to Mobility_SK, select SAVE.
-Click the GO button that have the related link option "Configure Softkey Layout"
-Add the following options to the following states:
*On Hook Mobility
*Connected Mobility


Step 3.-Proceed to build a phone
Go to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration page
Select Device
Select Phone
Select ADD NEW (in my case I will be building and configuring a Cisco 7961 using SIP as a protocol, you can configure your phone with SCCP protocol if you like)
Select the appropriate settings for your phone such as Device pool, CSS, MRGL's, device security profile, location, etc although you need to select the newly configured mobility SoftKey Template and select the newly created end user as the Owner User ID and Click the SAVE button
Proceed to set up a DN for this phone and configure things like a Partition, Calling Search Space, Voice mail profile if any, then Select and click the SAVE Button

Step 4.-Configure a Remote Destination Profile
Go to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration page
Select Device Settings
Select Remote Destination Profile
Select and Click the Add New button
Configure the following settings
Name: mobilityuser_RDP
Description: Mobilityuser Remote Destination Profile
User ID: [your mobility user]
Device Pool: [an appropriate device pool]
Calling Search Space: [an appropriate CSS]
User Hold Audio Source: [your option of preference]
Network Hold MOH Audio Source: [your option of preference]
Privacy: [off]
Rerouting Calling Search: [preferably a CSS that have access to the pstn] *although I will suggest you to configure an special CSS for mobility to avoid fraud
Calling Party Transformation CSS: [none]
Leave all the rest as default
Select Save
Proceed to a new DN by clicking on the Line[1] – Add a new DN link
For this example I have created DN 0621, and it's the same DN that I am using in the Cisco 7961 IP Phone that I created above, so by entering the DN and selecting the a partition it should auto populate
-Click Save

Step 5.- Create a new Remote Destination
Go to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration page
Select Device
Select Remote Destination
Click the Add New button
Enter the following Settings

Name: mobilityuser_mobilephone
Destination Number: 9+[mobile phone number] (please refer to your dialplan)
Answer too Soon Timer: leave as default
Answer too Late Timer: leave as default
Delay Before Ringing Timer: leave as default
Remote Destination Profile:[select the newly created remote destination profile]
Select the mobile phone check box
Click Save
Next select the Line association check box and click Save
You may need to reset the phone that is associated with the mobile connect user
Your user is now ready to begin using the mobile connect feature

While connected on a call the user will need to press the mobility softkey select
Send call to Mobile Phone and the call will sent to his/her mobile phone, to reverse back to his/her Cisco IP phone he/she will need to simply hang up their mobile phone


Hope this helps.

 
Pardon, the above post should be marked Mobile Connect

Hope this helps.

 
Hi Have followed your instructions and managed to get it working - Many Thanks!

Although I have an issue with the ability to get the call back to the desk phone. If I hang up the cell phone then the originating caller just gets "other caller has hung up" I get no options of resume on the desk phone.

Can you help?

Thanks

 
Ok after some further testing the resume button does appear, but after about 25 seconds, originating call continually gets "the other person has hung up" play during this 25 seconds.
Cause
• If the calling party receives busy/reorder/disconnect tone when the mobile phone hangs up, the mobile phone provider probably did not disconnect the media. Cisco Unified CM cannot recognize this circumstance because no disconnect signals came from the provider

Resolution
• Add the following command to the gateway:

voice call disc-pi-off

Usage Guidelines

• Use this command if the gateway is connected to a switch that sends a release immediately after it receives a Disconnect with PI. To properly handle the call, the switch should open a backward voice path and keep the call active. Otherwise the rotary dial peer feature does not work because the incoming call leg is disconnected. Using this command enables the gateway to handle a disconnect with PI like a regular disconnect message so that you can use the rotary dial peer feature.

Once I have tried this will update thread.
 
The above has resolved the delay issue and the resume button appears immediately.
 
Did I miss something in the programming when I use the Mobility softkey I see Mobile Connect Off, and You are not a valid Mobile Phone user. Any help would be appreciated thanks
 
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