UC500 Outgoing line selection POTS first

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Q:

Hello,

How do we configure the UC500 to choose the outgoing POTS voice line?
i.e, Calls should always go out thru voice port 0/1/0 first and if its
busy rollover to 0/1/1 etc. I have a 8 FXO port UC500.

I beleive there is a preference command on the dial-peers but then its
defined for each outgoing port. Any ideas?

A:

Re: UC500 Outgoing line selection

Hi Jibu,

Today this functionality is supported outside of CCA using CLI. You
can configure the dial-peer, with the FXO port that you want to always
use, with a higher preference and let the other dial-peers have a
lower preference. For example:

In the configuration below, CCA sets all the dial-peers for FXO ports
with preference 5:
!
dial-peer voice 54 pots
corlist outgoing call-local
description ** FXO pots dial-peer **
translation-profile outgoing CALLER_ID_TRANSLATION_PROFILE
preference 5
destination-pattern 9[2-9]......
port 0/1/0
forward-digits 7
no sip-register
!
dial-peer voice 60 pots
corlist outgoing call-local
description ** FXO pots dial-peer **
translation-profile outgoing CALLER_ID_TRANSLATION_PROFILE
preference 5
destination-pattern 9[2-9]......
port 0/1/1
forward-digits 7
no sip-register

You can modify this configuration (and any other dial-peer
configuration for port 0/1/0) and set the preference at 4. Leave the
other dial-peers at the same lower preference.

!
dial-peer voice 54 pots
corlist outgoing call-local
description ** FXO pots dial-peer **
translation-profile outgoing CALLER_ID_TRANSLATION_PROFILE
preference 4
destination-pattern 9[2-9]......
port 0/1/0
forward-digits 7
no sip-register
!
dial-peer voice 60 pots
corlist outgoing call-local
description ** FXO pots dial-peer **
translation-profile outgoing CALLER_ID_TRANSLATION_PROFILE
preference 5
destination-pattern 9[2-9]......
port 0/1/1
forward-digits 7
no sip-register

If you need to define a decreasing order of preferences, then with 8
ports, you can start with preference 1 and go on lowering the
preferences for the other dial-peers.

HTH,
Saurabh

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Re: UC500 Outgoing line selection

This is quite helpful, but I noticed in IOS that there are multiple
dial-peer entries for each FXO port, mostly differentiating beween the
corlist settings - I thought I'd ask for the clarification that the
preference level should be set to all the dial-peers for the port,
unless needed otherwise.

Regards,

Luis

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Re: UC500 Outgoing line selection

The links were very helpful and I had configured it. Its has to be
done for all dial peers, 4 or so per FXO port.