If you run into issues faxing and need to disable ECM on a Brother Fax machine that does not have a menu option this should work on most models.

TURN OFF
Menu *2864
(Maintenance Mode)
10
22
11 <— 9600 ECM off
menu set
Stop / exit
(Maintenance Mode)
99

TURN ON
Menu *2864
(Maintenance Mode)
10
22
00 <— 14400 ECM on
menu set
Stop / exit
(Maintenance Mode)
99

controller E1 0/0/0
ds0-group 0 timeslots 1-4 type r2-digital r2-semi-compelled ani
cas-custom 0
dnis-digits min 3 max 11
ani-digits min 1 max 65

dnis-digits min 3 max 11
If dialed digits maximum is not known, cas has to rely on a timeout
(3 seconds by default). If max is known then cas will gain 3 seconds
in inter digit timeout.

ani-digits min 1 max 65
A minimum of 1 means there should be at least one digit in the
ani of the incoming call.

Anyone who has passed the lab, or even taken the lab can tell you that one of the absolute necessary essentials to success is a plan of attack. The only way to approach the daunting beast is to try to conquer it in sections. And the way that you order those sections is something that you can experiment with in the beginning but as you approach the lab you should stick with your plan. Even if you decide to revise your strategy after your attempt, the lab is no place to second guess your tactics. Undoubtedly the lab will throw you far faster curve balls than Roger Clemens could ever produce but those have to be the things that you you build into your plan by being 150% proficient in the things that you KNOW will be in the lab. You can look at the blueprint and be confident about 50% of the crap that they will throw at you. Even if something in the lab throws you off and makes you question your plan, STICK TO IT! No one flys by the seat of their of pants in this test. If one of the many distractions in the test make you question that, hold true to the months of prior sacrifice that got you to that point and press forward!

Did not turn on AAR under service parameters.
Did not put location on GW, unable to call out.
Did not put Significant Digits inbound on gateway, could not call in.
Reset of GW would not take, had to bounce MGCP for calls inbound to work.

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I have my first lab attempt scheduled in three months. As doing lab questions in sequential order appears to be a rookie mistake, I’m trying to figure out a better approach.

As a place to begin, I’m looking at the two approaches Mark describes on the DVD classes: #1 is by device and #2 is by technology. By way of judging them, one criteria emphasized heavily through the classes is that you don’t want to touch anything more than twice and preferably just once.

According to this criteria, the first approach is the most efficient. However, it strikes me as more prone to mistakes since you’ll be dealing with pieces of different tasks outside of the context of its own narrative.

Questions:

1. Is an approach by technology inherently less efficient than an approach by device?
2. Is an approach by device any more prone to mistakes than an approach by technology?

If these questions are unclear, just say what is unclear about them and I’ll clarify. If I’m making any assumptions that make the questions off-base or ludicrous, feel free to say that as well.

Finally, two newbie questions.

1. If you ask for additional plastic sheets/paper to write on, will you be given it?
2. Are points awarded by question or by section?

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I will try and best answer your question.

Firstly, there is no one-size fits all. I have heard people saying they wanted to tackle the Q’s sequentially and then pass with that strategy. I have heard people have what I think to be a completely crazy strategy and surprise me and pass. One thing for sure, whatever your stratregy is (you should have practised implementing it 10 times before the real thing) STICK TO IT in the lab- do not deviate from it.

Now, a rookie error is thinking you can go through the lab not making mistakes. Unlikely! You (and I) will probably make a few mistakes if we sat the lab tomorrow, 1 month, 1 year, whatever. Human nature! Hopefully you are in a position whereby you have only made 1-5 mistakes and not more than 5. The trick is to be profficient in troubleshooting and verification.

Now to the two strategies proposed. It depends on what type of person you are. Some people like to have the comfort of having things registered and completed by technology before moving on. For example, if you configure a conference bridge on an IOS router, you HAVE to have it registered in CallManager- this means switching between the router and the CallManager server a couple of times which could consume time but the positive side is once it has registered, you have confirmation that what you have done is correct.

I would say that you need to play around with what works best for you before deciding on what the best plan of attack is. What is also important is the order you tackle the questions. A lot of people like to get QoS out of the way early since it can be quite tedious after 7 hours. A lot of people like to leave dial plan till after lunch or do it as early as possible. You have to experiment.

As for your last two question, (1) I don’t see why they wouldn’t gie you more paper and (2) point are awared by question. So you could have the Qos section be comprised of 3 x 2 point questions. You either score 0/2/4/6 in that section.

If I missed anything, let me know.

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vlan d
vlan 100 name voice
vlan 200 name data
apply
exit

config t
int vlan100
ip helper-address x.x.x.x
no shut
int vlan 200
no shut

mls qos
mls qos map cos-dscp 0 8 16 24 34 46 48 56
mls qos map ip-prec-dscp 0 8 16 24 34 46 48 56

int range fa 01 – 3

switchport voice vlan 100
switchport access vlan 200
mls qos trust cos
mls qos trust device cisco-phone
switchport priority extend cos 0

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Hi Ben,

If we want to send a FB/FNA to a CUE mailbox how many dial-peers is needed. I read somewhere that we must use two dial-peers to overcome a bug. One with session target pointing to the actual VM pilot extension (4 digits for exampl) and another pointing to the ten/seven digit PSTN number. Is this true.

Thanks,
Imad
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Thanks again Ben,

I was refering to DDTS CSCee57422
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCee57422

http://www.ciscotaccc.com/kaidara-advisor/voice/showcase?case=K13756179

Are we still faced with this bug in the current lab exam.

Thanks,
Imad

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Hi Imad,

Thank you for taking the efforts.

Yes, we are running 12.4 mainline which is still impacted by this defect. Therefore beware of it and its workarounds, which are relatively well documented in the URLs posted by you.

The take-way is that any software versions we select to run in our production lab is not defect-free. We always try our best to make sure our lab exercise is not impacted by any defects to begin with.

However, if there is a defect which we could not avoid because it impacts basic functionality, then the CCIE content development team have some choices to make:

1. If there are no workarounds within the same version, we will have to pull the version.

2. If workaround exists, we evaluate the complexity and feasibility of the workaround. If the workaround too complex or no applicable to implement in our lab, then we will pull the version.

3. If the workaround is easy to discover and implement, then we see it as a good validation of candidate’s troubleshooting skills. In this particular case, a simple debug would reveal the fault of the IOS and hopefully lead to a workaround.

If I was a customer encountering this problem in my production IPC network, I would prefer my voice engineer to identify the fault, come up with workarounds (if any)so I can be up and running again, and then make upgrade suggestions.

With that being said, the impact and implication of each defect is different. When drafting test contents, we also take into account that candidates in the lab are under time and workload constrains, so it’s never our intention to give candidates a lab full of defects. However, we do see the value of occasional usage of known and workaroundable defects to validate candidate’s troubleshooting skills and understanding of the technology, not to mention assement the non-technical skills such as maintaining calm in a stressful environment.

Lastly, let me see if I could rate your post for sharing the information with the rest of us.

-ben

1. PRI-group would not take, had to renter “network-clock-participate wic 0” even though it was already there.
2. When adding VLANS on branch router I got “VLAN #10 and #100 have an identical name: voice” I changed name to vvoice.
3. I forgot to add “ip pim sparse-dense mode” and “ip helper-address” on the voice VLAN.
4. You can’t add “ip pim sparse-dense mode” on a VLAN on the 3550.
5. I configured option 150 on the DHCP server but did not add it to the scopes.
6. I did not start the services at the beginning of the CCMadmin configuration and could not get MGCP gateway to register.

Ideally we would all like to have a replica of the lab at home to study with but Mr. Mastercard and Mr. Car-Note usually keep that idea in the “Sure would be nice” category. I have purchased and used a few sessions from Proctor Labs and have been pretty pleased, but I find them more useful if you are trying to do a mock lab attempt. I find my self studying in a more topic based fashion and beating the ideas and configuration into my head with repetition. This helps me focus on smaller sections of the lab rather than getting overwhelmed with the enormous amount of information I need to cover. Yesterday for example I spent three hours configuring the 3550. Starting from scratch, getting it all built up, then blowing away the config and doing it again and again until I was sick of the 3550. I just can’t see spending $75 at Proctor Labs to do this, it would be a waste.

Knowing that, I have tried to put together enough of the lab at my house that will allow me to study and practice in sections and save the Proctor Labs for when I want to spend 5 hours putting it all together.

VMware is an excellent alternative to having some MCS servers to run CCM, IPCC and Unity. Is it worth it to spend $10k on a vg248, probably not but I think it is worth it to buy a 2600XM from Ebay for $300 (+CUE, I found it for $500) and have the ability to practice CME, CUE and Gatekeeper as I need and not under the watchful clock of an online rack rental company.

CCIE Voice Home Lab Gear

I have found a mix of online rack rentals and home equipment to work well for me up to this point. Hopefully this strategy will pay off for me.

Here is a copy of the minimal configuration that it took to get a phone to register to my CME. A very important command is create cnf-files. Without that the CME will not create xml files to hand out to the phone when it attempts to register. You also need to ensure that any file that you tell the router it has with the tftp-server flash: command is actually in the flash of the router. If you are unable to get your phone to register debug tftp events is a good debug so see what the phone is requesting and where it is failing. A useful show command is show telephony-service tftp-bindings. This will show all files that are available to a phone using tftp.

2600XM_CME#sh run
Building configuration…

Current configuration : 1240 bytes
!
version 12.4
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
no service password-encryption
!
hostname 2600XM_CME
!
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
!
enable secret 5 $1$ZYdg$wAiT47.cKoEBUitfgZgnR/
!
no aaa new-model
!
resource policy
!
no network-clock-participate slot 1
no network-clock-participate wic 0
ip cef
!
!
ip dhcp excluded-address 172.16.1.1 172.16.1.10
!
ip dhcp pool 172
network 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0
default-router 172.16.1.1
domain-name cisco.com
option 150 ip 172.16.1.10
!
!
no ip domain lookup
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
!
interface FastEthernet0/0
ip address 172.16.1.10 255.255.255.0
duplex auto
speed auto
!
interface Serial0/0
no ip address
shutdown
no dce-terminal-timing-enable
!
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 FastEthernet0/0
!
ip http server
no ip http secure-server
!
!
tftp-server flash:P00307020200.sbn
tftp-server flash:P00307020200.bin
tftp-server flash:P00307020200.loads
tftp-server flash:P00307020200.sb2
!
control-plane
!
!
!
!
telephony-service
load 7960-7940 P00307020200
max-ephones 10
max-dn 10
ip source-address 172.16.1.10 port 2000
create cnf-files
!
!
ephone-dn 1
number 1000
!
!
ephone 1
mac-address 0012.DAFA.8516
button 1:1
!
!
!
line con 0
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
password cisco
login
!
!
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