CallManager Installation steps

**These directions are for non-production, non-Cisco blessed lab configurations. My quess is that it'll still work fine for production, but use it at your own peril!*** I've been installing CM on various servers lately and I've found that there's a path that…

CallManager upgrade procedures

Ran into something screwy trying to install CM update 4.0(2a) on a new CM 4.0(1) install. I kept getting an error message that said something like "Device not ready". I finally checked out the install logs and discovered that it was looking for a…

Asterisk dial plans

Per Steve's request, here's what I have in the extensions_custom.conf file in Asterisk: [macro-dialout-callmanager] exten => s,1,ChanIsAvail(SIP/callman01) exten => s,2,Cut(AVAILCHAN=AVAILCHAN,,1) exten => s,3,Dial(${AVAILCHAN}/${ARG1}) exten => s,4,Hangup exten => s,…

Cisco CallManager, managed routers and CallerID

I've been running Cisco CallManager Express for almost a year now and it's worked pretty well. I hadn't installed Unity yet so I was still using a good old answering machine off of a Cisco ATA 186. Time to start learning CallManager though, so…

Sharing my voice

Wow...long time no post...I'm sure I'm going to get readers at this pace! :) Ok, I really do want to start updating this. I've been fiddling with CallManager, Unity and Asterisk and I feel compelled to share. There are some peculiarities with getting…

Skewed Sidepipe

Haven’t done much except gather parts over the last couple of weeks.  Oh, and I hung the sidepipes.  The  passenger side is still giving me trouble and wants to stick out from the frame about 6 inches all the way at the  end.  I’ll just have to work…

First start!

I heard a beautiful sound yesterday.  After three long years of owning this kit I finally started the engine.   What a great sound!  Thanks to a lot of help from Wade and Joe we fired it up around 6pm.  I still need to get a  belt on it and hook…