Cisco CME and Free PBX voice mail

[studmuffin]

Is it possible to use free pbx or astrix as a voicemail service instead of cisco unity or unity express

[Leonardo Santana]

Hi,

According to the datasheet you can set up CME with a third-party voice mail

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/unified-communications/unified-communications-manager-express/datasheet-c78-737647.html?cachemode=refresh

Voicemail features

●  Integrated voicemail and Automated-Attendant solution with Cisco Unity Express ●  Integration with Cisco Unity Voicemail and Cisco Unity unified messaging, or third-party voicemail integration (H.323, SIP, or dual-tone multifrequency [DTMF])

Regards

Leonardo Santana

[studmuffin]

would anyone know how to set that up by any chance im very new to all this

[studmuffin]

im a student trying to learn

[Leonardo Santana]

What do you have in mind?

If you have already the third-party voice mail check the documentation to see what type of integrations they support.

Regards

Leonardo Santana

[studmuffin]

using freepbx for voice mail

[Leonardo Santana]

Look at Freepbx forum that is lot of stuff there

I found this doc too:

This post will show you my sample configuration for CME Router and FreePBX as voicemail server. The freePBX is used as voicemail because is an open source and alternative to Cisco Unity Express. 

https://ciscocollaborationnotes.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/freepbx-voicemail/

Regards

Leonardo Santana

[studmuffin]

Thank you I will try getting it to work

[studmuffin]

that guide did not work sadly 

[Leonardo Santana]

Hi,

Review your CME config and try to set up the freepbx according to the documentation.

Regards

Leonardo Santana

[studmuffin]

I did the only thing i could not do is the message waiting due to i cant seem to find the file vm.sh it does not exist and i cant call the exension i assigned it 1139 and when i do the debug command it tries to call 1139 locally even though i created a dial-peer pointing it at the free pbx it ignores the dial peer

[Leonardo Santana]

Hi,

Try to understand the dial-peers logic, review your dial plan configuration.

About the voicemail you need to look at freepbx documentation.

Regards

Leonardo Santana

[studmuffin]

I did it like this destination-pattern 1139 the extension of voicemail i want to use on free pbx

dial-peer voice 1139 voip
description FreePBX
destination-pattern 1139
session protocol sipv2
session target ipv4:192.168.40.206
dtmf-relay rtp-nte
no vad

[stan5675]

I got this to work with FreePBX ver 16.0.40.7 and Cisco CME ver 8.6. Here are my dialpeers:

dial-peer voice 1070 voip
description **TO FREEPBX**
destination-pattern 107.
session protocol sipv2
session target ipv4:172.24.0.68
dtmf-relay rtp-nte
codec g711ulaw
no vad
!
dial-peer voice 1071 voip
description **FROM FREEPBX**
translation-profile incoming FreePBX
session protocol sipv2
session target ipv4:172.24.0.161
incoming called-number 910[0-3].
dtmf-relay rtp-nte
codec g711ulaw
no vad
!
dial-peer voice 1072 voip
description **CALL FWD BUSY NOAN**
translation-profile outgoing VM_FORWARD
destination-pattern 50010..$
session protocol sipv2
session target ipv4:172.24.0.68
dtmf-relay rtp-nte
codec g711ulaw
no vad

Have fun!