Tricks full of awesome: monitoring voicemail ports remotely

Here’s a neat trick I picked up in INE voice boot camp this week*: you can monitor Unity Connection ports from a telnet session.

Why would you want to do this?

Well, one, you are studying for the CCIE voice lab and you know that you won’t have access to the Unity Tools website to download the port monitor tool during the exam.

Two, you like cool and easy ways to do things and you think installing the port monitor tool is a terrific hassle**. I happen to fall into both categories.

Now to get this going – first be sure to turn on remote port monitoring in Unity Connection. Go to System Settings -> Advanced -> Conversations ->

You will see Enable Remote Port Status Monitor Output at the top if you’re in CUCM 7.x. Just check the box and enter the IP address of the router or host you will be initiating the telnet session from.

Then go to your router (or device of your preference) and issue this command:

telnet 10.10.10.10 5000 /source-int lo0 (note the IP address is the IP address of your Unity Connection server and the source-int should match the IP address you put in Unity Connection)

Here’s a nice sample of the output before I created a voicemail account for a user – you can see the caller’s extension and the voicemail pilot. You can also see the name of the voicemail port being used. Also note that when the system doesn’t find a voicemail box it plays the Opening Greeting instead.

Branch1#telnet 10.10.10.10 5000 /source-int lo0
Trying 10.10.10.10, 5000 … Open
CallData, 2, CallerId=1001, CalledId=8000, RedirectingId=, Origin=16, Reason=1, CallGuid=A409F619FAF34289B7F7092AAA6719A2, CallerName=My User, LastRedirectingId=, LastRedirectingReason=1024, PortDisplayName=PortGroup1-002
Application, 2, 1001, AttemptSignIn
State, 2, 1001, State – AttemptSignIn.cde!Dummy
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
Application, 2, 1001, PHTransfer
State, 2, 1001, State – PHTransfer.cde!LoadInfo
State, 2, 1001, Event is [TrueEvent]
Application, 2, 1001, PHGreeting
State, 2, 1001, State – PHGreeting.cde!PlayGreeting
Display, 2, 1001, Call answered if needed
Display, 2, 1001, Playing greeting for Call Handler: Opening Greeting
State, 2, 1001, Event is [HangupEvent]
State, 2, 1001, State – PHGreeting.cde!DoHangup
State, 2, 1001, Event is [HangupEvent]
Display, 2, 1001, Idle

Now here is the output after I created the voicemail box. You can see that it recognizes the user has a voicemail box and prompts the user to authenticate:

CallData, 2, CallerId=1001, CalledId=8000, RedirectingId=, Origin=16, Reason=1, CallGuid=EE22CD20CC714BF7A723D24A4153B306, CallerName=My User, LastRedirectingId=, LastRedirectingReason=1024, PortDisplayName=PortGroup1-002
Application, 2, 1001, AttemptSignIn
State, 2, 1001, State – AttemptSignIn.cde!Dummy
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
Application, 2, 1001, SubSignIn
Display, 2, 1001, Subscriber Sign-In
State, 2, 1001, State – SubSignIn.cde!AnswerPhone
State, 2, 1001, Event is [TrueEvent]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubSignIn.cde!AuthenticateUser
Application, 2, 1001, –>SubAuthenticate
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!TryCounter
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!GatherID
State, 2, 1001, Event is [FalseEvent]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!LoadSubscriberMinimalData
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!GatherPIN
Application, 2, 1001, –>SubAuthenticatePW
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticatePW.cde!ValidatePwd
State, 2, 1001, Event is [HangupEvent]
Application, 2, 1001, <–SubAuthenticatePW
State, 2, 1001, Event is [HangupEvent]
Application, 2, 1001, <–SubAuthenticate
State, 2, 1001, Event is [HangupEvent]
Display, 2, 1001, Idle

And one final output I thought was interesting (yes I am a geek). Here is what it looks like when you enter the wrong pin, then enter the wrong ID and wrong pin when prompted again.

CallData, 2, CallerId=1001, CalledId=8000, RedirectingId=, Origin=16, Reason=1, CallGuid=8667665A30304959991818F0EE9C47B7, CallerName=My User, LastRedirectingId=, LastRedirectingReason=1024, PortDisplayName=PortGroup1-002
Application, 2, 1001, AttemptSignIn
State, 2, 1001, State – AttemptSignIn.cde!Dummy
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
Application, 2, 1001, SubSignIn
Display, 2, 1001, Subscriber Sign-In
State, 2, 1001, State – SubSignIn.cde!AnswerPhone
State, 2, 1001, Event is [TrueEvent]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubSignIn.cde!AuthenticateUser
Application, 2, 1001, –>SubAuthenticate
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!TryCounter
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!GatherID
State, 2, 1001, Event is [FalseEvent]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!LoadSubscriberMinimalData
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!GatherPIN
Application, 2, 1001, –>SubAuthenticatePW
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticatePW.cde!ValidatePwd
Display, 2, 1001, Subscriber sign-in failed. Alias – myuser. Extension – 1001. Caller Id – 1001.
State, 2, 1001, Event is [FalseEvent]
Application, 2, 1001, <–SubAuthenticatePW
State, 2, 1001, Event is [FalseEvent]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!TryCounter
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!GatherID
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!GatherPIN
Application, 2, 1001, –>SubAuthenticatePW
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticatePW.cde!ValidatePwd
Display, 2, 1001, Subscriber sign-in failed. Alias – . Extension – – Not Available –. Caller Id – 1001.
State, 2, 1001, Event is [FalseEvent]
Application, 2, 1001, <–SubAuthenticatePW
State, 2, 1001, Event is [FalseEvent]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!TryCounter
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!GatherID
State, 2, 1001, Event is [FalseEvent]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!LoadSubscriberMinimalData
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!GatherPIN
Application, 2, 1001, –>SubAuthenticatePW
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticatePW.cde!ValidatePwd
Display, 2, 1001, Subscriber sign-in successful. Alias – . Extension – – Not Available -. Caller Id – 1001.
State, 2, 1001, Event is [Expired]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticatePW.cde!ReturnExpired
State, 2, 1001, Event is [Expired]
Application, 2, 1001, <–SubAuthenticatePW
State, 2, 1001, Event is [Expired]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubAuthenticate.cde!ReturnExpired
State, 2, 1001, Event is [Expired]
Application, 2, 1001, <–SubAuthenticate
State, 2, 1001, Event is [Expired]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubSignIn.cde!AuthenticateUser_Expired
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubSignIn.cde!RunSignInUtil
Application, 2, 1001, –>SubSignInUtil
State, 2, 1001, State – SubSignInUtil.cde!CheckAccountLocked
State, 2, 1001, Event is [FalseEvent]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubSignInUtil.cde!CheckExpiredAndNew
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NewUser]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubSignInUtil.cde!RunEnrollmentConv
Application, 2, 1001, –>SubEnrollment
State, 2, 1001, State – SubEnrollment.cde!PlayEnrollmentIntro
State, 2, 1001, Event is [TTStarEvent]
State, 2, 1001, State – SubEnrollment.cde!ReApplyRoutingRules
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
Application, 2, 1001, <–SubEnrollment
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
Application, 2, 1001, <–SubSignInUtil
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
Application, 2, 1001, AttemptSignIn
State, 2, 1001, State – AttemptSignIn.cde!Dummy
State, 2, 1001, Event is [NULL]
Application, 2, 1001, PHTransfer
State, 2, 1001, State – PHTransfer.cde!LoadInfo
State, 2, 1001, Event is [TrueEvent]
Application, 2, 1001, PHGreeting
State, 2, 1001, State – PHGreeting.cde!PlayGreeting
Display, 2, 1001, Call answered if needed
Display, 2, 1001, Playing greeting for Call Handler: Opening Greeting

*Credit for this tip goes to classmate Israel, thanks to him for bringing it to the class’s attention!

**Last time I tried to install the port monitor tool for Unity Connection on a Windows VM, it crashed the VM.  This may or may not be blamed on the tool itself, but after having to restore from snapshot, I am a bit wary of installing the tool.