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Managing, Monitoring, and Reporting Functions

This chapter discusses various types of managing, monitoring, and reporting functions that can be used withUnified CVP. It covers the following areas:

• Unified CVP Operations Console Server Management, page 1

• DS0 Trunk Information for Reporting, page 2

• End-to-End Individual Call Tracking, page 2

• Formal Reporting, page 3

• Unified System CLI and Web Services Manager, page 6

Unified CVP Operations Console Server ManagementThe Unified CVP Operations Console Server has a web-based interface (the Operations Console) from whichyou can configure the Unified CVP components in the Unified CVP solution. You can also monitor allcomponents in the Unified CVP solution.

You can manage the following Unified CVP components directly from the Operations Console:

• Unified CVP Call Server

• Unified CVP VXML Server

• Unified CVP Reporting Server

The Operations Console provides web-based interfaces for mapping and summarizing the solution networkconfiguration, setting and displaying configuration information on a batch or per-node basis, and storing localcopies of these configurations. The Operations Console also provides the ability to distribute Cisco UnifiedCall Studio applications to Unified CVP VXML Servers. Finally, the Operations Console provides basicvisual indications as to which managed components are functioning properly and which are having problems.

The Operations Console provides access to the following operations:

• Health Monitoring

You can use any SNMP-standard monitoring tool to get a detailed visual and tabular representation ofthe health of the solution network. All Unified CVP product components andmost Unified CVP solution

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components also issue SNMP traps and statistics that can be delivered to any standard SNMPmanagementstation or monitoring tool.

• Statistical Monitoring

Unified CVP infrastructure statistics include real-time and interval data on the Java Virtual Machine(JVM), threading, and licensing. You can access these statistics by selecting the Control Center fromthe System menu and then selecting a device. SNMP statistics can also be used.

• Direct administration of individual Cisco IOS-based components

Administrators can select an individual gateway for direct administration. Secure Shell (SSH) is usedfor the gateway.

Internally, the Operations Console is occasionally referred to as the OAMP (Operate, Administer, Maintain,Provision). The Operations Console manages individual components through the Unified CVP ResourceManager, which is co-located with each managed Unified CVP component. The Resource Manager isinvisible to the end-user.

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For more information on the Operations Console, see the Operations Console online help.

For information about the many new features for the Operations Console, see the Administration Guide forCisco Unified Customer Voice Portal, available at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/custcosw/ps1006/products_user_guide_list.html.

DS0 Trunk Information for ReportingUnified CVP adds the capability of passing the PSTN gateway trunk and DS0 information on which the SIPcall arrived to Unified ICM. This information can be used for routing and for reporting.

See the topic DS0 Trunk Information and the topic Trunk Utilization Routing and Reporting.

End-to-End Individual Call TrackingWhen a call arrives at a Unified CVP ingress gateway, Cisco IOS assigns that call a 36-digit hexadecimalGlobal Unique Identifier (GUID) that uniquely identifies the call. Unified CVP carries that GUID through allof the components that the call encounters, as follows:

• Ingress gateway— shown in Cisco IOS log files

• VoiceXML gateway— shown in Cisco IOS log files

• Unified CVP components— shown in Unified CVP log files

• Unified Intelligent Contact Management Enterprise (ICME)— shown in the Extended Call Context(ECC) variable user.media.id and stored with all Termination Call Detail (TCD) and Route Call Detail(RCD) records

• Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) servers— shown in logs as the loggingtag

• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM)— appears in the detailed logs

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Thus, with proper levels of logging enabled, a call can be traced through all of the above components.

The Unified CVP logs are located in $CVP_HOME\logs. All of the Unified CVP logs roll over at 12:00 AMevery night, with the date as part of the filename. The format of the date is yyyy-mm-dd. All of these logswill also roll over when they reach the predefined size limit of 100 MB and will have a number as part of thefilename extension. The number indicates which log it was for that day.When the entire logs directory reachesa predefined size, old files are purged as necessary.

For more information on Unified CVP logging, see the Troubleshooting Guide for Cisco Unified CustomerVoice Portal, available at:

http://cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/custcosw/ps1006/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

AlthoughUnified CVP components do not themselves synchronizemachine times, customers must providea cross-component time synchronization mechanism, such as NTP, in order to assure accurate time stampsfor logging and reporting.

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Formal ReportingThe Unified CVP Reporting Server houses the Reporting Service and hosts an IBM Informix Dynamic Server(IDS) database management system.

The Reporting Service provides historical reporting to a distributed self-service deployment in a call centerenvironment. The system is used to assist call center managers with call activity summary information tomanage daily operations. It can also provide operational analysis of various IVR applications.

The Reporting Service receives reporting data from the IVR Service, the SIP Service (if used), and theUnified CVP VXML Server. (To capture the data from the Unified CVP VXML Server in the Unified CVPReporting Server's database, the Unified CVP VXML Server should be added by using the CVP VXMLServer device in the Unified CVP Operations Console Server (Operations Console). Selecting the VXMLServer Standalone device option will not capture the Unified CVP Reporting data.) As stated, the ReportingService is deployed together with an Informix database management system, and it transforms and writes thisreporting data into that database. The database schema is prescribed by the Unified CVP product, but theschema is fully published so that customers can develop custom reports based on it.

The Reporting Service does not itself perform database administrative and maintenance activities such asbackups or purges. However, Unified CVP provides access to such maintenance tasks through the OperationsConsole.

A single Reporting Server may be used in a deployment. If a single Reporting Server is used, it does notnecessarily represent a single point of failure, because data safety and security are provided by the databasemanagement system, and temporary outages are tolerated due to persistent buffering of information on thesource components.

If more than one Reporting Server is used, be aware of the following restrictions:

• Each Unified CVP Call Server can be associated with only one Unified CVP Reporting Server.

• Reports cannot span multiple Informix databases.


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AlthoughUnified CVP components do not themselves synchronizemachine times, customers must providea cross-component time synchronization mechanism, such as NTP, in order to assure accurate time stampsfor logging and reporting.

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New Reporting Features

For reporting requirements related to the Courtesy Callback feature, see Courtesy Callback.Note

The following is the list of features introduced in Unified CVP for the Unified CVPReporting server (ReportingServer).

1 Use the Reporting server to integrate with Cisco Unified Intelligence Center (Unified IC), enabling youto can run user friendly custom reports in the Unified IC environment. Unified IC templates are shippedwith all Unified CVP installations. These templates provide examples to report against Call, Application,Callback, and Trunk Grout Utilization structures.

2 The Reporting Server provides increased data retention times by increasing the database space requirements:

Size for Unified CVP Release 8.0(1) and Above

• 100 GB

• 200 GB

For Unified CVP, the 2GB option for database size is not supported for production.Note

3 All database backup files are compressed and stored on the Reporting Server. The backup file is calledcvp_backup_data.gz and is stored on the%INFORMIXBACKUP%drive in a folder named cvp_db_backup.

4 Using the new System CLI, you can make the request to list log files on the Reporting Server (show log).This request includes the Informix Database Server Engine logs. The show tech-support command alsoincludes these files.

5 Debug can now be turned on (or off) from within the System CLI with the debug level 3 (or 0) command.When on, this command generates trace files for all administrative procedures, Purge, Statistics andAggregator. Care should be taken when turning this on because the trace files place an elevated burdenon the database.

6 Log data for administrative procedures are now written on a nightly basis to the %CVP_HOME%\logsfolder.

7 All StartDateTime, EndDateTime and EventDateTime values are stored as UTC in the various ReportingServer tables.

8 The Reporting Server supports the Analysis Manager tool by allowing Analysis Manager to query theReporting Server as long as the user is authenticated. This user would typically be the cvp_dbuser login.

9 Transfer Type data and Transfer Labels for SIP call events are now stored in the call event table.


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10 There is a data aggregator, which aggregates Unified CVP data in fifteen minute increments. Cisco UnifiedIntelligence Center templates are created to capture this information. Call data is summarized at 15 minute,daily, and weekly intervals. Dominant Path information is summarized at the same intervals. Thesesummaries are stored in the call_15, call_daily, call_weekly, applicationsummary_15,applicationsummary_daily, and applicationsummary_weekly tables. Call data is summarized into theCall_* structure, while an aggregate of each element invoked by each application is stored in theApplicationSummary_* structures.

11 Summary purge results are now logged in the log table.

12 Three new scheduled tasks have been added to the Reporting Server scheduler:

• CVPSummary, which builds summary tables.

• CVPCallArchive, which archives Callback data to maintain callback database performance.

• CVPLogDump, which extracts the administrative logs on a nightly basis.

13 All metadata for administrative processes has been moved into a new Ciscoadmin database. This removesthe tables from normal view of reporting users.

Cisco Unified IC TemplatesUnified Intelligence Center templates are used by customers who want to generate user friendly reports oncall data stored in the database.

See the following guides for more information about the packaged Unified CVP template and for informationon how to create additional templates:

• Reporting Guide for Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal, available at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/custcosw/ps1006/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html.

• Reporting Guide for Cisco Unified ICM Enterprise & Hosted, available at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/custcosw/ps1001/products_user_guide_list.html.

Backup and RestoreUnified CVP utilizes RAID as protection against failure of a single drive in a mirrored pair. However, RAID 10does not protect against the loss of a site, loss of a machine, or a loss of both mirrored drives.

Unified CVP allows, by means of the Operations Console, to schedule daily database backups or to rundatabase backups on-demand. This capability enables restore to database manually (if needed) to the lastbackup time, so that the worst-case scenario is losing about 24 hours worth of data.

Database backups are written to the local database server. However, storing backups only on a local machinedoes not protect the system against server failures or the loss of a site. Copy the backup Unified CVP files toa different machine, preferably at a different location. You must assume all security and backup managementresponsibilities.

Backups are compressed and stored on disk. During a backup, the oldest of two backups is removed andreplaced with the most recent backup while a new backup is made. In the event of a hardware failure duringa backup which results in a bad backup image, the older backup image can be used to replace the failed backupimage. Retention of older backups is beyond the scope of the Unified CVP Reporting Server and should bemanaged by the customer.


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Restore Process in CVPIn Cisco Unified CVP, there is a supported script to perform a database restore.

There are two reasons why you would want to restore a backup image. The first would be in the event thatolder data on a backup image needs to be recovered. The second reason would be the case of a machine thathas been rebuilt after a hardware failure, where you would want to recover as much data as possible.

Although it is possible to restore a backup image from one reporting server to another, such a restorationis not supported with the CVP restore process.

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The restore process in CVP is as follows:

Procedure

Step 1 Stop the CallServer process (Reporting Server).Step 2 Execute the script: %CVP_Home%\bin\cvprestore.batStep 3 Restart the CallServer Process.

More InformationFor more information on Unified CVP reporting, see the Reporting Guide for Cisco Unified Customer VoicePortal, available at:


Unified System CLI and Web Services ManagerUnified CVP infrastructure includes the Web Services Manager, a services layer that supports a DiagnosticPortal API.

The following features are supported by the Unified CVP Infrastructure:

1 Diagnostic Portal API service support by the WebServices Manager.

2 Unified System Command Line Interface (Unified System CLI) - A client tool that supports the diagnosticportal API and other APIs for collecting diagnostic data.

3 Licensing.

• Common Licensing for all CVP components (VXML Server, Call Server, Reporting Server, andCall Studio all support FlexLM)

• 30 ports with 30 day expiration for Call Server and VXML Server evaluation licenses

• 10,000 database writes for Reporting Server evaluation licenses


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• Licenses are only valid if the license feature, CVP_SOFTWARE, is added. This feature will be usedto ensure that you have the right to run the current version of CVP.

4 Serviceability Across Products.

• Enhanced Log & Trace messages

The CVP WebServices Manager (WSM) is a new component that is installed automatically on all UnifiedCVP Servers, including Remote Operations Manager (ROM) only installations. WSM interacts with varioussubsystems and infrastructure handlers, consolidates the response, and publishes an xml response. WSMsupports secure authentication and data encryption on each of the interfaces.

Analysis Manager versus Unified System CLIThe Diagnostic Portal API is accessed by the Analysis Manager and the Unified System CLI. The AnalysisManager and the Unified System CLI have similar set of features, but the following differences:

Analysis Manager

• The Analysis Manager is a GUI-based client that is part of the Unified CM Real Time Monitoring Tool(RTMT). The Analysis Manager has a user friendly interface due to its GUI based design.

• The Analysis Manager is not bundled with CVP and is not installed by CVP installer.

Unified System CLI

• Unified System CLI is a command line based tool. The Unified System CLI is more flexible because itcan be used in a batch file to perform more complex tasks.

• The Unified System CLI is bundled with Unified CVP installer, and is also bundled with the UnifiedCCE installer.

The following diagram shows how the two interfaces interact with the WSM to provide information aboutUnified CVP components.

Figure 1: Typical Use of the Web Services Layer


Managing, Monitoring, and Reporting FunctionsAnalysis Manager versus Unified System CLI

Analysis ManagerTheWeb ServiceManager supports all diagnostic (health and status) requests from the newAnalysis Manager.Analysis Manager provides end users a common interface for collecting health and status information for alldevices in its network topology. If Unified CVP is configured as a part of the solution, you can leverage theWSM through the AnalysisManager to collect diagnostic details like server map, version information, licenses,configuration, components, logs, traces, performance factors, platform information for each CVP Device ona component and sub-component level. Users can set/reset debug levels using the Analysis Manager on acomponent and sub-component level.

The Analysis Manager is part of UCM RTMT tool.

A new user with username wsmadmin is created during installation with the same password as the UnifiedCVP Operations Console Server administrator user. Use wsmadmin to control access to the diagnostic portalservices.

For a discussion of the Analysis Manager, and a related discussion of the Analysis Call Path tool, seeCisco Unified Analysis Manager available at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/service/8_0_1/rtmt/ch1_overview.html.

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Unified System CLIWhen an issue arises in Unified CVP operation, you can use the SystemCLI tool to collect data to be reviewedby Cisco engineers. For example, you can use the System CLI if you suspect a call is not handled correctly.In this case you would use the show tech-support command to collect data and send the data to Cisco support.

Important features of the Unified System CLI:

• It is automatically installed on all Unified CVP servers as part of the infrastructure; there is no additionalinstallation required on any Unified CVP server.

• Every Unified CVP server is also aware of at least one seed device (the Unified CVPOperations Consoleserver). Your entire solution topology is automatically retrieved from the Operations Console on anyUnified CVP box by using System mode. There is no additional configuration needed for Systemmode.

• The Unified System CLI uses a consistent command across multiple products and servers.

• The Unified System CLI can be executed as a Windows scheduled job.



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The following figure summaries the high-level commands for the Unified SystemCLI and shows the interactionof devices and Unified Cisco products.

Figure 2: High-Level Commands for Unified System CLI

Unified System CLI Modes of OperationThe Unified System CLI can operate interactively in two modes:

• Local mode.

◦In the local mode, the Unified System CLI only interacts with a single device. For example, theshow version command shows only the version for a single device.

• System mode.

◦In the System mode, the Unified System CLI automatically detects the Unified CVP OperationsConsole (which acts as a seed device for the CLI) and then interacts with all of the devices in thedevice list in the Operations Console to extract the solution topology automatically.



In this mode, the show version command shows the version information for all devices in thedevice list.

◦All of the commands available in local mode for a single device are available in system mode.

◦The command syntax remains the same in system mode.

◦There are additional options to limit the system command option to certain device group, devicetype, or list of servers.

In addition to the interactive user interface, the Unified System CLI can be used as a batch command. Thisfeature allows the System CLI to be used in scheduled jobs.

Unified System CLI FAQ

Does Unified System CLI affect the performance of a the device(s) it queries?Q.

Unified System CLI runs at a low priority; it uses idle CPU time on the System. It should not affect callprocessing even if executed on a system running under load.

A.

The response time from the given CLI command varies depending on the load of the system and the serverresponse time. The response time when there in no running load should be below 5 seconds for each serverfor simple operations like show version, show license, show debug, and show perf. The response timewhen there is no running load for show platform should be below 10 seconds for each server.

However, the response time cannot be determined for commands such as show trace, show log, showsessions, show all, and show tech-support. The response for these commands can vary depending on thedata being transferred by the server.

Can I redirect the output of a Unified System CLI command to a network drive?Q.

Yes. Just specify the path to the network drive.A.

Can I filter and include multiple components and devices?Q.

Yes. Use the component and subcomponent options to filter components and subcomponents and use theserver option to filter devices. You may use“ | ”symbol to select multiple components or subcomponentsor devices. For example:admin:show debug subcomponent cvp:SIP|cvp:ICM|cvp:IVRComponent: CallServer, subcomponent: SIP

A.

Trace level = 0Description:Application data:Component: CallServer, subcomponent: ICMTrace level = 0Description:Application data:Component: CallServer, subcomponent: IVRTrace level = 0Description:Application data:admin:

Can turning on “debug level 3” affect the performance on a production system?Q.



Yes. Therefore the debug level should be set to 0 for normal production environment. The definition ofdebug levels are given below for reference:

A.

level 1 --- Low performance impact

level 2 --- Medium performance impact

level 3 --- High performance impact

How do I set the debug level to its default?Q.

Set the debug level to 0.A.

For detailed information on using the Unified System CLI, see: Unified System CLI in theConfiguration Guide for Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal, available at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/custcosw/ps1006/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html.

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