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Infinite SPAM voicemails

Cesar M
Level 1
Level 1

Hi All, 

   Is there a setting on Cisco Unity that will block or stop infinite SPAM voicemails messages for a user. I have tried deleting and re-assigning the extension number to a user, but the issue persists. Attached herewith is the infinite spam voicemail message. Please help/advise. Thank you in advance.

-Cesar

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Brad Magnani
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hi Cesar,

This audio isn't a "spam" message, your user has a message notification device (Work Phone, Home Phone, or Mobile Phone) configured so that it'll call out to the # configured, notifying the user they have a message.  If you don't want this feature enabled, you can disable the message notification device under Edit>Notification Devices on the user. 

Brad

Hi Brad,

   Thanks for the info. Fyi, they are not enabled. The voicemail mesassages still keeps on going to user's mailbox. 

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Brad Magnani
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Ideally you'd need to pull traces from CUC to best figure out which user account may be configured to place the notification device calls.  What's likely happening is CUC dials out to the configured notification device (which doesn't pick up) and it sends the call back to voicemail.  While CUC is streaming that notification device announcement, the call lands on the user's greeting and CUC begins recording itself, it's basically a looped call  Then that gets left as a voice message and confuses the user   The key will be to figure out which user's notification device has the configured # on their mailbox since they likely have voicemail and aren't checking them.

As an alternative to traces, you could try the following:

1. To get a list of all users with notification devices configured on the system for you to search through to find the configured notification # that's being dialed out to:

run cuc dbquery unitydirdb select objectid,phonenumber from tbl_notificationdeviceconversation

Copy the 'objectid' value that matches the notification # and plug it into the next query:

2. run cuc dbquery unitydirdb select * from tbl_notificationdevice where objectid = 'OBJECTID'

This shows you the object and the type of notification device it is, which has that extension configured on it.

Copy the subscriberobjectid value and use it in the next command to find the user it belongs to:

run cuc dbquery unitydirdb select dtmfaccessid,displayname,alias from vw_user where objectid = 'OBJECTID'

Hopefully it's that simple, otherwise traces need to be set and capture the outbound notification device calls happening so we can track which device it is.

Macro Traces:
Call Flow
Call Control
Conversation Traces

Gather from RTMT:
Connection Conversation Manager

Then search through them for the # being dialed and you should see the outbound call being placed either in the SIP or SCCP signaling, depending on your phone system integration type.

+5 to @Brad Magnani for the extremely helpful SQL queries and thorough answer!

Maren

Thanks for all the informations Brad & Maren. I'm really not an SQL guy. But I've found an alternate solution. What I did, I completely delete the extension number in Call Manager and re-configured a new setting with the same extension number then I assigned it back to a user. I've been testing it, and the SPAM automated voicemail message is gone. Again, thank you for all your help. Have a wonderful day!

I guess that's good news, but just for others that may run into a similar situation, that change in CUCM shouldn't have any implications on what CUC is configured to do as far as notification devices.  If it's configured on a user object, it will still try calling out when new messages are left for whichever mailbox it's configured on (still TBD).  You just may have potentially "bandaided" whatever is going on.