Tuesday, March 24, 2009

How to Connect Asterik & CCM 4.1 Through SIP Trunk

Configure SIP Trunk/Routes in Asterisk


We can connect Asteriks FreePBX system with Cisco Call Manager (CCM) through SIP (Session Intention Protocol) trunk. First of all your CCM should support SIP trunks. The latest versions CCM 4.1 and higher versions are now support for sip trunks.


First i will explain how to configure SIP trunk in FreePBX step by step.


1. Login to FreePBX administration application and select Setup tab > Trunks > Add SIP Trunk.


2. Then provide following specified fields values and others keep as their default values. I will assume that CCM IP as 192.168.5.12

General Settings

Dial Rules:
Your dial rule pattern here.

Ex: 1xx

It means you can dial only three digit numbers starting from 1 as 100, 101 etc

Outgoing Settings

Trunk Name: Your trunk name here.
Ex: InterOffice

PEER Details: Peer FreePBX server details (your CCM).

Ex:

deny=all

allow=g729&alaw

type=friend

host=192.168.5.12

qualify=yes

context=from-internal


Those options mean,


Deny ALL audio codecs. Except for g729 and alaw - if you were in the US, you'd use ulaw Use this entry to send calls to, and receive calls from a device. Use this entry when sending or receiving calls from the host 192.168.5.12 that is your CCM.

It is important to use "qualify" in sip.conf since Call Manager does not support registration for SIP trunks.


Incoming Settings


USER Context : User context name here

Ex : InterOffice-In


USER Details: User details here.


Ex:

context=from-internal

host=192.168.5.12

type=user




3. Now you Asteriks SIP trunk configuration is finished and you have to create outbound route.
4. Go to Setup Tab > Outbound Routes

Route Name: Your route name here
Ex:InterOffice-CCM

Dial Pattern: Your dial pattern here
Ex: 1xx

Trunk Sequence: Your trunk sequence here.
Ex: SIP/InterOffice



5. Now we have to configure SIP trunk from CCM to connect with Asterisk FreePBX. I will assume that asterisk server IP as 172.25.103.52

Configure SIP Trunk/Routes in CCM


1. Open up the CallManager Administration web page. 2. Since a SIP trunk requires MTP, make sure you have one:
  1. Service -> Media Resource -> Media Termination Point
  2. Normally your CallManager server should appear there if you do an empty query
  3. if not, go to the CallManager Serviceabilty web page, and activate the Cisco IP Voice Media Streaming App service

3. Select Device->Trunk from the menu.



4. Select the "Add a New Trunk" link from the upper right hand corner of the "Find and List Trunks" page.



5. Select "SIP Trunk" as the "Trunk type" and "SIP" as the "Device Protocol". Click on the "Next" button.



6. Enter a name in the "Device Name". Valid characters are letters, numbers, dashes, dots (periods), and underscores. The device name is only used internally in Call Manager so it can be anything you want.
7. Enter a description in the "Description" field.
8. Select a device pool.
9. Enter the IP address of your Asterisk server in the "Destination Address" field.



10. Select "UDP" as the "Outgoing Transport Type".
11. Modify any other settings as needed for your ((CiscoCallManager|CallManager) installation.





12. Click on the "Insert" button.
13. Add route pattern from CCM Ex: 409





Now you should be able to make a call from CISCO phones registered with CCM to phone/extensions registered with Asterisk FreePBX vise versa.

Make sure that both your dialing pattern meet the extention range.

3 comments:

subhani.indunil said...

A short and sweet article...

Unknown said...

Hi

I followed your directions but I'm having problems calling extension on the cisco cme4.1. I'm using the cli version of call manager do you have the instruction for creating a sip trunk on the cme4.1 in cli?

Thanks again

Unknown said...

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