CCM 4.1 and Alternate Gatekeeper

[n.clark]

I am looking for guidance on how to setup Call Manager with two gatekeepers. Does anyone have some good docs?

[palves]

It's fairly straight forward (unless I'm missing something here).

Set 2 gatekeepers on CM.

Set up 2 trunks on CM.

You can put these 2 in a Route Group for redundancy.

Or in separate Route Groups within a single Route List (depending on requirements).

The router configs would be as such....

Router1 would have a local Zone (Zone1)

Router1 would have a remote zone (Zone2)

Router2 would have a local Zone (Zone2)

Router2 would be a remote zone (Zone1)

The CallManagers would be registering to both routers since you'd have already configured 2 Gatekeepers and 2 trunks.

That's basically it.

Your preferred order of call routing will depend on the Route Lists/Route Groups. CM handles the redundancy using RL/RG's.

Hope this helps.

Paul

[n.clark]

Thanks, does this work with the IOS alternate gatekeeper feature?

[palves]

I'm not aware of the "alternate gatekeeper feature" specifically.

The way I described it above works. It's part of the gatekeeper functionality. I personally don't consider it a feature, rather just doing things in a certain way. Perhaps someone out there coined that term or something...

let me know if it is a solution to your issues.

thanks,