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Welcome to my blog about Cisco Collaboration, voice, and contact center technologies.

I’m Dmytro Benda, a Cisco instructor (CCSI#33268) and collaboration specialist. Here I share practical articles, lab notes, configuration tips, and troubleshooting ideas based on real work with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Unified CME, gateways, CUBE, and contact center solutions.

This blog is for engineers, students, and anyone working with Cisco collaboration technologies who wants clear technical content and real-world examples. I also post updates about Cisco training, my own courses, and upcoming learning activities.

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Saturday, September 29, 2018

Cisco Unified Intelligence Center and CVP Reporting Server Integration Example

Greetings to everyone! I decided to write this post as a small addition to the Cisco DUIC course. This course discusses Cisco Unified Intelligence Center (CUIC), which provides reports for Cisco contact center products. The course describes the integration of CUIC and UCCE quite well, but there is a very small amount of information about how to configure CUIC for CVP reports. Let's discuss it now.

Monday, September 24, 2018

SSL Issue (CVP OAMP to Call Server Connection)

Recently, one of our customers complained to us about the "unusual" problem from his point of view, which he met in the Cisco Voice Portal (CVP). When he tried to save changes for the Call Server configuration, the Web Management Console (OAMP) returned the following error:

Call Server device with IP Address: <x.x.x.x> and Hostname: <server1> operation failed. Device could not be reached because of a failure in negotiating security certificates. Please refer to documentation for configuring security before trying the operation again.

Sunday, September 23, 2018

CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation error when using RDP

When working with Cisco UCCE and its components, you often need to remotely connect to one or another system component via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Sometimes the RDP session is not established, and the CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation error is issued. Let's see how it can be fixed.

Friday, September 14, 2018

SIP Dialer doesn't make outbound calls (UCCE)

When setting up the Outbound Option for UCCE, you often have to deal with the situation when SIP Dialer does not make outbound calls in agent-based campaigns, although all the settings seem to have been done correctly. Of course, the reasons for such behavior of the Dialer can be completely different, because the deployment of this function is quite complicated. In this article, let's look at one of these reasons, which is related to SIP PING.