header manipulation problem

[ctramnitz]

I have a SIP trunk provider that requires me

1) to always use my account name in the "From" header, so I have to use header header rewriting to achieve this

2) to set the "P-Preferred-Identity" header to change the caller id (as From cannot be used due to point 1)

Now the header rewriting for 1) works fine, but 2) is bit more complicated, as I need to fetch the source number (ideally before it has been modified) and then use it in a new header line. (aka "copy contents from one header to another header in an outgoing SIP message")

From the "Conditional Header Manipulation of SIP Headers" document I would have assumed that the following works:

voice class sip-profiles 101

request INVITE peer-header sip From copy ".*<sip:(.*)@" u01

request INVITE sip-header P-Preferred-Identity add "P-Preferred-Identity: <sip:555123\u01@sipconnect.sipgate.de>"

But unfortunately it doesn't, "\u01" is being sent literally instead of the content:

P-Preferred-Identity: <sip:555123\u01@sipconnect.sipgate.de>

Any ideas? I'm running CUBE on a 2901ISR with IOS version 15.3(2)T

Edit: Not sure what the difference between sip-header and peer-header is in this context, but using

request INVITE sip-header From copy ".*<sip:(.*)@" u01 (instead of the peer-header line)

doesn't work either.

[Jorge Armijo]

If the profile you configured is passing the "vairable" instead of  the actual content, there is something wrong, please look at the following docs for a better understanding of how the feature works:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/voice/cube/configuration/guide/vb-gw-sipsip.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/cube_sip/configuration/12-4t/voi-condl-header.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios-xml/ios/voice/cube_sip/configuration/15-2mt/voi-condl-header.html

HTH

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Jorge Armijo

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[ctramnitz]

I've opened a TAC case and the problem was simple.

Modifying an existing heade works a single SIP leg in general but copying headers, working with variables requires multiple SIP legs, one to fill the variable and another to add/modify the header with its content.

As I only had a single SIP leg this cannot work.

Nevertheless, I've managed (again with TAC help) to get the desried functionality by adding

voice

   sip

      asserted-id ppi

and just modifying the header as needed.