Monitoring Media Devices

The Media Devices view displays the media devices associated with a UCM cluster. You can monitor the following types of media devices:

  • Cisco Annunciator Device
  • Cisco Hardware (HW) Conference Bridge Device
  • Cisco Music On Hold (MOH) Device
  • Cisco Media Termination Point (MTP) Device
  • Cisco Software (SW) Conference Bridge Device
  • Cisco Transcode Device

To launch the Media Devices view, follow these steps:

  1. From the Workspaces 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 UCM Cluster Details form opens.
  3. Click the Media Devices tab. The Media Resources view opens on the right pane. You can see the monitored media devices in the cluster.
Basic Attributes of the Media Devices Table
Attribute Description
Media Device Name

Indicates the name of the media device.

UCM Cluster Indicates the name of Unified Communications Manager (UCM) cluster to which the selected media device is associated.
Device Pool

The name of the device pool to which the media device 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.

Filtering Media Devices

You can filter the listed media devices in the Media Devices view based on the following attributes:

  • Media Device Name
  • UCM Cluster
  • Device Pool

To filter the Media Devices view:

  1. Right-click any of the listed attribute columns of one of the media devices listed in the Media Devices view and select Filter.
  2. Select one of the following filters:
    • Equals this value: filters and lists all the media devices 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 media devices for which the selected column is not empty.
    • Is empty: filters and lists all the media devices for which the selected column is empty.
    • Not equal to this value: filters and lists all the media devices that do not have the value in the column that you selected.The filtered list of media devices appears in the view.

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

You can view the details of a single media device in a form.

To view the Media Device Detail form:

Select a media device from the list of media resources displayed and click to open the Media Device Details Form. This form displays the attributes for the selected media device.

Analysis Pane

The Analysis pane provides a summary of the details of a selected media device as follows:

Media Device Details Summary tab

  • Device Pool Name: The name of the device pool to which the selected media device is associated.
  • UCM Cluster: The name of the UCM cluster to which the selected media device is associated.
  • Management Server: The management server for the media device. This attribute displays one of the following values:
    • Local: If the media device is being managed by the NNMi management server console on which you are viewing the media device details.
    • Name of the regional manager that manages the media device.

General Information tab

  • Description: A short description of the selected media device.
  • Type: The type of the media device.
  • IP Address: The IP address of the selected media device.

Media Resources Availability tab

  • Total Resources: The number of resources present on the media device. The sum of available resources and active resources represents total resources.
  • Available Resources: The number of resources that are available to be used. These resources are not in use at the current time.
  • Active Resources: The number of resources that are currently in use.
  • Unavailable Resources: The total number of unsuccessful attempts made to allocate a media resource from the device. The unsuccessful attempts occur when all media resources in the device are in use.