Cisco Cisco Unified Operations Manager 8.5 White Paper
Deployment Guide
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
ACS
Access Control Server, a Cisco
®
Secure product
IP SLA
Cisco IOS
®
Software IP Service Level Agreement
LMS
CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution
MoM
Manager of managers, a high-level network management entity
ODBC
Open Database Connectivity
QoV
Quality of voice
RME
Resource Manager Essentials, a component of CiscoWorks LMS
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
SRST
Survivable Remote Site Telephony
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol
Introduction
This document outlines best practices for a successful deployment of Cisco
®
Unified Communications Operations
Manager in enterprise and managed service provider (MSP) environments. The document describes pertinent points
on initial device setup, installation guidelines, server sizing, and best practices for initial setup, ongoing
administration, and maintenance of the product.
Please note that this document is not an alternative to the installation guide or the user guide, as it does not cover all
the features or all the steps for the operations suggested. It is a supplement to the installation guide and the user
guide. Wherever relevant, this document provides detailed steps for industry-standard best practices.
Product Overview
Cisco Unified Communications Operations Manager (referred to as Operations Manager, from this point forward)
provides a unified view of the entire IP communications infrastructure and presents the current operational status of
each element of the IP communications network.
Operations Manager continuously monitors the current operational status of different IP communications elements
such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express, Cisco Unity
®
systems, Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unified Contact Center, Cisco Unified Contact Center
Express, Cisco Unified Presence Server, Cisco Emergency Responder, and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace
®
Express,
as well as Cisco gateways, routers, switches, and IP phones. It also provides diagnostic capabilities for faster trouble
isolation and resolution.
Operations Manager monitors and evaluates the current status of both the IP communications infrastructure and the
underlying transport infrastructure in the network. It uses open interfaces such as Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to
remotely poll data from different devices in your IP communications deployment. Since Operations Manager does
not deploy any agent software on the devices being monitored, it is nondisruptive to your system operations.
In addition, Operations Manager does the following:
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Presents the current operational status of your IP communications deployment and provides visualization
using service-level views of the network.
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Provides quick at-a-glance, real-time status of all the faults in the Unified Communications network.
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Increases productivity of the network managers and helps enable faster trouble identification and isolation by
providing contextual diagnostic tools to facilitate troubleshooting. This is done through: