Paging via cell-phone

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I have a school district with UCM ver 6, 2800 vg's in each of the buildings with a h323 trunks to their legacy paging systems.

Paging works as it should within the buildings.

They have asked if I can setup ability to dial-in from outside (cell-phone, home-phone etc) and be able to page

in case of an emergency.

My thought is to do the following- not sure if this will work though?

1. Assign a DID of the PRI to use for this requirement

2. Create new route pattern with a forced authorization code. Note I don't want to leave this unsecure

in case someone randomly calls the DID I have assigned!!

3. create a voice-translation rule in the gateway where the PRI terminates.

4. translate the DID to the route pattern for the paging trunk.

Will this work?

If so, I need to make sure that the route pattern will enforce the FAC.

Any thoughts, comments, or idea's on a better way would be appreciated.

Thanks

Jason

[dakeller]

Richard,

Unfortunately, the solution you proposed above will not work.  The FAC checkbox on a route pattern will only work for IP based endpoints for policy enforcement.  Cisco CUCM does not allow trunk to trunk FAC.  If you wanted to do enforcement to the paging system, you would need to invoke a TCL script on the H323 GW to request and process the authorization code.

Thanks,

Dan Keller

Technical Marketing Engineer