Monitoring MGCP/SCCP Gateways

The MGCP/SCCP Gateways view displays all the Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) gateways, and Skinny Call Control Protocol (SCCP) gateways associated with a UCM cluster. The view arranges the key attributes of all the discovered MGCP and SCCP gateways in a table.

To launch the MGCP/SCCP Gateways view, follow these steps:

  1. From the Workspaces navigation pane, click Cisco IP Telephony > UCM Clusters. The UCM Clusters view opens in the right pane.
  2. Select a UCM Cluster of your interest and click (the Open icon). The UCM Cluster Details form opens.
  3. Click the MGCP/SCCP Gateways tab. The MGCP/SCCP Gateways view opens on the right pane.
Basic Attributes of the Cisco Voice Gateway Table
Attribute Description
Registration State

Indicates if the MGCP/SCCP gateway is registered with a UCM.

The possible values are as follows:

  • Unknown
  • Registered
  • Unregistered
  • Rejected
  • Partially Registered
Name The hostname of the MGCP/SCCP gateway.
Type

The type of the MGCP/SCCP gateway. Possible values are:

  • E and M port
  • FXS port
  • ISDN T1 PRI
CCM Device Name The name of the MGCP/SCCP gateway.
UCM Cluster The name of the UCM cluster to which the MGCP/SCCP gateway belongs.
Device Pool

The name of the device pool to which the MGCP/SCCP gateway is associated.

Note To see the association with the device pool, you must configure AXL credentials for the cluster to which the device pool is associated. See the section Configuring Data Access for Cisco for more details.

Usage State

The usage status of the MGCP/SCCP gateway. This state is not applicable for non-DS1 gateways. Possible values are:

  • idle— if all channels associated with the gateway are idle.
  • in use—if all channels associated with the gateway are in use.
  • partially in use—if at least one channel is in use (not all the channels are in use).
  • not polled—if the gateway is not polled.
  • not applicable—if the usage state is not applicable for the gateway.
  • unknown—if the usage state is not known.
Operational State

This field indicates the operational state of the gateway. Possible values are:

  • Up
  • Down
  • Testing
  • Unknown
  • Dormant
  • Not Present
  • Lower Layer Down
Custom Info

Indicates the custom information configured for the MGCP/SCCP gateway.

Filtering MGCP/SCCP Gateways

You can filter the listed MGCP/SCCP gateways in the MGCP/SCCP Gateways view based on the following attributes:

  • Registration State
  • Name
  • Type
  • CCM Device Name
  • UCM Cluster
  • Device Pool
  • Usage State
  • Operational State
  • Custom Info

Note You can create filters for each of the listed attributes to view only the required MGCP/SCCP gateways.

To filter the MGCP/SCCP Gateways view:

  1. Right-click any of the listed attribute columns of one of the MGCP/SCCP gateways listed in the MGCP/SCCP Gateways view and select Filter.
  2. Select one of the following filters:
    • Equals this value: filters and lists all the MGCP/SCCP gateways that have a value that is equal to the value of the column that you selected.
    • Create Filter: opens the Filter dialog box. This dialog box helps you specify a string and select options to perform filtering based on the string specified.
    • Is not empty: filters and lists all the MGCP/SCCP gateways for which the selected column is not empty.
    • Is empty: filters and lists all the MGCP/SCCP gateways for which the selected column is empty.
    • Not equal to this value: filters and lists all the MGCP/SCCP gateways that do not have the value in the column that you selected.

    The filtered list of MGCP/SCCP gateways appears in the view.

    You can also filter the MGCP/SCCP gateways by right clicking the attribute column headings and selecting Filter and one of the following options:

    • Is not empty
    • Is empty
    • Create Filter

All the attributes that you can use to filter are case sensitive. Make sure that you use the correct character case to specify the attribute values that you want to use to filter.

Note After viewing the filtered list, always remove the filter. To remove the filter, right-click the filter attribute, and then click Remove Filter.

Analysis Pane

The Analysis pane provides a summary of the details of a selected MGCP/SCCP gateway as follows:

Voice Gateway Interfaces Summary tab

  • Name: The name of the selected MGCP/SCCP gateway.
  • Call Server: The fully-qualified domain name of the UCM device to which the selected MGCP/SCCP gateway device is configured.
  • Cluster: The name of the UCM cluster to which the selected MGCP/SCCP gateway is associated
  • Management Server: The management server for the MGCP/SCCP gateway. This attribute displays one of the following values:
    • Local: If the MGCP/SCCP gateway is being managed by the NNMi management server console on which you are viewing the MGCP/SCCP gateway details.
    • Name of the regional manager that manages the MGCP/SCCP gateway.

Cisco VGW Interface Information tab

  • Type: : The type of the MGCP/SCCP gateway.
  • Registration State: Indicates if the MGCP/SCCP gateway is registered with a UCM.
  • Usage State: The usage status of the MGCP/SCCP gateway.
  • Operational State: the operational state of the selected MGCP/SCCP gateway.
  • Total Number of Channels: The number of channels in the selected MGCP/SCCP gateway.
  • Total Number of B-Channels: The number of B-Channels in the selected MGCP/SCCP gateway.

Gateway Call Activity tab

This tab provides the information about the active calls handled by the MGCP/SCCP gateway. To see these details, you must enable monitoring of gateway call activity. For more information, see Enabling the Monitoring of Gateway Call Activity.