Saturday, February 11, 2012

CME cBarge - Failed to setup barge

Just labbing on the CME cBarge feature and got the error message "Failed to setup Barge" on the phone display.  The reason in my case is I have forgotten to create the ad-hoc conference ephone-dn.  Let us quickly walkthrough the steps that are needed to config cBarge on CME:

1. Create Conferencing DSP farm profile

dspfarm profile 1 conference
codec g711ulaw
codec g711alaw
codec g729ar8
codec g729abr8
codec g729r8
codec g729br8
maximum sessions 2
associate application SCCP

2. DSP farm profile SCCP configuration

sccp local GigabitEthernet0/0
sccp ccm 192.168.20.254 identifier 1 priority 1 version 7.0
sccp
!
sccp ccm group 1
associate ccm 1 priority 1
associate profile 1 register CFB

3. sdspfarm configuration on CME under telephony-service

telephony-service
sdspfarm units 2
sdspfarm tag 1 CFB
no privacy
conference hardware

4. Create ephone template with cBarge softkey in remote-in-use state

ephone-template  1
softkeys remote-in-use  CBarge Newcall

5. Sample ephone configuration

ephone  1
privacy off
privacy-button
device-security-mode none
mac-address 0021.5555.5555
ephone-template 1
type 7965
button  1:1 2:3
!
!
!
ephone  2
privacy off
privacy-button
device-security-mode none
mac-address 0026.2222.2222
ephone-template 1
type 7975
button  1:2 2:3

6. Create shared line ephone-dn and ad-hoc conference ephone-dn
ephone-dn  3  octo-line
number 5003
!
!
ephone-dn  4  octo-line
number A123
conference ad-hoc

After I've created the ephone-dn 4 for ad-hoc conferencing, cBarge is setup successfully without the error any more!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for posting this!
I had the same problem and I was able to resolve it following your blog!

Unknown said...

This actually really helped me. Can you explain why does the ad-hoc octo-line need to be be configured to get it work since its not associated with anything? The Cbarge couldn't work without it but I understand why not?

Danny Wong said...

You can take a look at this:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucme/admin/configuration/guide/cmeadm/cmebarge.html

Ad-hoc conference resource needs to be setup prior using cBarge. And that ad-hoc conference DN is a system DN, will not be used directly by end users but by the system itself, therefore you need that in place before cBarge will work.