Cisco Cisco Unified Communications Manager Version 11.5 Technical Manual

Contents

Introduction

Prerequisites

Requirements

Components Used

Configure

For the Publisher

VM Deployment

Verify

Troubleshoot

CLI commands that have been introduced in this feature

Benefits

Introduction

This document describes Touchless Virtual Machine (VM) installation feature which is being
introduced in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 10.5.2 and higher releases.

Prerequisites

Requirements

There are no specific requirements for this document.

Components Used

The information in this document is based on these software and hardware versions:

Bootable Image for CUCM/Cisco Unity Connection (CUC)/ Instant Messaging & Presence
(IM&P) for version 10.5.2 and higher

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Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) for UC 10.5.2.

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Virtual Floppy Image created with the output of Answer File Generator (AFG) tool.

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Procedure to create virtual floppy image with the AFG tool is documented in the following

link

.This

website provides instructions for multiple client platforms such as Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of
the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is
live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.

Configure

Use AFG tool to generate a floppy image file. This floppy image contains platformConfig.xml file
and clusterConfig.xml file for CUCM publisher and only platformConfig.xml file for all other
nodes which include CUCM Subscribers, IMP Publisher & IMP Subscriber.