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In this blog post I gathered everything I did to pass the Cisco CIPTV1 exam. Build a Home Lab It is hard to pass the CIPTV1 exam without a home lab. You need to break things and observe how components behave. And you can not risk your job by doing this on your company’s network, LOL. Throughout my blog you will see many home lab setups. It took me weeks and months to perfect my home lab settings, since I did not have any user guide. Besides, I found almost no blogs describing how to build a virtual home CCNP Collaboration lab on a tight budget. I struggled a couple of weeks before I came across a great post about installing CUCM on a VMware workstation. I needed this for CIPT1 labs.Strangely, the website has been taken down due to a hacking attempt. Well, everything seemed to work fine until the NTP configuration step. Here, I’ve discovered that , when configuring NTP server, make sure your guest machine can connect to the internet and check the public NTP server. So if you ...

In this article, we will discover how Cisco Unified Communications Manager version 9 and above behave with the concept of Region. Here is the call setup in my home lab: HQ : CIPC phone 1 , extension 1000. Branch1 : CIPC phone 2, extension 2001. In case you still confuse between a Location and a Region, I suggest you visit this article . And before you read further, remember to fly through my other blog posts under the CCNP Collaboration category. 1. Scenario #1: Both Phones Are in the Default Region Although phone 1 and phone2 are in different physical locations, I purposefully put both phones in the same region to experience codec selection within a region. Note that, when I say “I put a phone in region X”, I mean that I configure the device with a device pool that points to that region X. Phone uses Device Pool “HQ_DP” Device Pool “HQ_DP” points to region Default. We will see the negotiated codec and the one that is finally selected to encode and d...

There are two types of CUCM audio conferences: Ad Hoc and Meetme. And we are going to see one example configuration of each. The network setting for our sample config includes three phones registered to CUCM: CIPC: x1000 EyeBeam: x1002 X-Lite: x1003 You find a good amount of theory on audio conference types in CUCM here . Ad Hoc From CIPC, I make a call to EyeBeam then press the Confrn softkey: I make a second call to X-Lite and press the Confrn softkey: Now all participants are in an audio conference. To display the conference participants, press the ConfrList softkey To remove a participant, highlight it and press the Remove softkey The conference bridge is released and we have a two-leg simple call: MeetMe The second type of CUCM audio conferences we have is MeetMe conferences. We configure a MeetMe pattern on CUCM in this way: Call Routing -> MeetMe Number/Pattern CIPC is the first to enter the MeetMe conference; he must press the MeetMe softkey and dial the MeetMe pattern: On ...