Chapter 9 Troubleshooting and Maintenance

General Troubleshooting Tips

Table 9-2

Cisco Unified IP Phone Troubleshooting (continued)

 

 

 

Summary

 

Explanation

 

 

Peer Firmware Sharing fails.

If the Peer Firmware Sharing fails, the phone will default to using the TFTP

 

 

server to download firmware. Access the log messages stored on the remote

 

 

logging machine to help debug the Peer Firmware Sharing feature.

 

 

Note These log messages are different from the log messages sent to the

 

 

phone log.

 

 

Cisco VT Advantage/Unified Video

If you are having problems getting CVTA to work, make sure that the PC Port

Advantage (CVTA)

is enabled, and that CDP is enabled on the PC port.

 

 

See Network Configuration Menu, page 4-5for more information.

 

 

Phone call cannot be established

The phone does not have a DHCP IP address, is unable to register to Cisco

 

 

Unified Communications Manager, and shows a Configuring IP or Registering

 

 

message.

 

 

Verify the following:

 

 

1. The Ethernet cable is attached.

 

 

2. The Cisco CallManager service is running on the Cisco Unified

 

 

Communications Manager server.

 

 

3. Both phones are registered to the same Cisco Unified Communications

 

 

Manager.

 

 

4. Audio server debug and capture logs are enabled for both phones. If

 

 

needed, enable Java debug.

 

 

Call established with the iLBC protocol

Call statistics display does not show iLBC as the receiver/sender codec.

does not show that the iLBC codec is

1. Check the following by using Cisco Unified Communications Manager

being used

 

 

Administration:

 

 

 

 

Both phones are in the iLBC device pool.

 

 

The iLBC device pool is configured with the iLBC region.

 

 

The iLBC region is configured with the iLBC codec.

 

 

2. Capture a sniffer trace between the phone and Cisco Unified

 

 

Communications Manager and verify that SCCP messages,

 

 

OpenReceiveChannel, and StationMediaTransmit messages have media

 

 

payload type value equal to 86. If so, the problem is with the phone;

 

 

otherwise, the problem is with the Cisco Unified Communications

 

 

Manager configuration.

 

 

3. Enable audio server debug and capture logs from both phones. If needed,

 

 

enable Java debug.

 

 

 

 

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