VCS series & Cisco Expressway series First Configurations

Reboot after finishing initialization and import license file. Setting up global parameters are follows:

Name,  port number, protocol, security settings.

Because we do not use certificates, for changing the system name that may relative configurations on DNS, certificates and TMS.

Expressway-E needs to add one more ip address.

Configure DNS information in in terms of domain. If you are using multiple domains, such as Microsoft forest or external trust domains, make sure every domain has its own DNS.

there is a little utility for resolve DNS name

For example, use it to check TMS record.

NTP settings

After finishing, it takes time to be synchronizing and you may check the status below.

In production, if there are many video devices, to make it look better, we will make a banner with company’s logo

It expressway is managed by TMS, you need to configure SNMP , external manger, Provisioning Extension services

H323 and SIP is two protocols for end devices to register. Just choose one of them, if you use one.

To H323, choose correct port number in terms of real network, normally, we won’t change it.

To SIP, we enable TCP port

Choose it if you need interwork

In VCS

These two options will make network function and route choosing different.

Expressway doesn’t support that end devices register to local, no matter it is core or edge due to no local zone. It will forward to Neighbor, traversal or remote system according to Trunk.

To make sip end devices register to local, we have to create SIP domain, otherwise, sip end devices only use alias name to register VCS with the format like XXXX@IP.

So it’s not good to configurations and changes in future.

Next is to register end devices on VCS