Cisco Cisco Unified IP Interactive Voice Response (IVR) 8.0(1) Release Note

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Chapter 3      Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Solution Architecture for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 
  Cisco Unified CCX Fault Tolerance
See to the 
 for related architecture 
information.
Cisco Unified CCX Fault Tolerance
Although Cisco Unified CCX for Cisco Unified CME only supports a single server deployment, this 
solution offers some fault tolerance capabilities through other methods, as described in the following 
sections:
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Cold Standby Server
The cold standby server deployment and configuration guidelines are the same as Cisco Unified CCX 
for Cisco Unified CM. See the 
 for detailed 
information.
Basic ACD
Basic ACD (B-ACD) is an application running in Cisco Unified CME that provides auto-attendant and 
call distribution services for calls through the use of interactive menus and local hunt groups. It is a 
package of TCL scripts and audio prompts that can be downloaded from Cisco website for a specific 
Cisco Unified CME version. The menu options and the audio prompts for B-ACD can be customized for 
a specific need.
In the normal scenario, when there is an incoming call to a dial-peer in Cisco Unified CME, Cisco 
Unified CCX is notified and runs the configured application for the telephony trigger. However, assume 
that Cisco Unified CCX server is down for some reason so the inbound call to the dial-peer receives a 
busy tone. In this case, B-ACD can be used to temporarily handle the incoming call and route the call to 
the hunt group. If Cisco Unified CCX agent phones are put into the B-ACD hunt group, B-ACD can 
route the incoming calls to the Cisco Unified CCX agents (without CAD running).
To configure B-ACD to handle incoming calls when Cisco Unified CCX server is down, perform the 
following configurations in Cisco Unified CME:
1.
Configure a low precedent voice dial-peer and set the destination-pattern and incoming 
called-number fields using the CME Telephony Trigger configured for the Cisco Unified CCX 
application. For example, if the Cisco Unified CCX application has the CME Telephony Trigger 
8003 and its associated voice dial-peer in Cisco Unified CME has the preference of zero, the B-ACD 
voice dial-peer should be as follows:
!
dial-peer voice 50001 voip
 preference 5
 service agentaa
 destination-pattern 8003
 session target ipv4:10.4.45.3
 incoming called-number 8003
 dtmf-relay h245-alphanumeric
 codec g711ulaw
 no vad
!