Erwin Bierens

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Audiocodes - Block spam calls

2022-08-17 2 min read Audiocodes
More and more we hear customers complaining about spam likely calls, There is a way to block these calls based on your dialplan and an IP-2-IP route in the Audiocodes Mediant SBC. DialPlan If you are not using the DialPlan you will need to create one first, if you already use a DialPlan we can reuse it. Navigate to Signalling & Media > SIP Definitions > DialPlan Click on DialPlan Rule X items > Add a new DialPlan Rule > New Continue reading

Setting up tag based routing in Audiocodes Mediant

2021-02-24 2 min read Audiocodes Microsoft Teams
In this post i want to show the configuration steps of configuring tag based routing. You can use Dial Plan tags for determining the destination (IP Group) of an IP-to-IP Routing rule. One of the advantages of using Dial Plan tags is that it can reduce the number of IP-to-IP Routing rules that you would normally need to configure. For example: When you have an SBC with SIP trunk and legacy PBX and you would like to implement Microsoft Teams Direct Routing you can route specific numbers to Teams and the rest goes automatically to the legacy PBX. Continue reading

Transcoding issue on the Audiocodes Mediant

2020-12-03 2 min read Audiocodes Microsoft Teams
I have had a issue with a customer where we have implemented Direct Routing. It’s a HA setup version 7.20A.260.095 running virtual on a VMware cluster. The alarm says: License Pool Alarm. Some of the license pool allocations exceed maximum capability and will not be applied. In the syslog i see the followig errors show up: 20:11:35.145 172.20.1.1 local0.warn [S=3603724] [SID=815d0e:57:143476] (N 3305189)!! [ERROR] ResourceCounter: Cannot allocate more Media channel [0/0] [Time:23-11@20:11:36. Continue reading

Upgrading the Audiocodes One Voice Operations Center (OVOC)

2020-11-18 2 min read Audiocodes
AudioCodes One Voice Operations Center (OVOC, also known as Element Management System and IP Phone Manager) is a web-based voice network management solution that combines management of voice network devices (Audiocodes IP Phones, Mediapacks, Mediants etc..) and quality of experience monitoring into a single, intuitive web-based application. OVOC enables administrators to manage and to adopt a holistic approach to network lifecycle management by simplifying everyday tasks and assisting in troubleshooting all the way from detection to correction. Continue reading

Setup and Create Audiocodes log files

2020-07-16 1 min read Audiocodes
First start with downloading the Audiocodes Syslog viewer click here. Install Audiocodes “syslog viewer” on a windows-based PC. Login to your SBC and go to Troubleshoot > Logging > Logging Settings and enter the following values: Enable Syslog : enable Syslog Server IP Address : IP of the computer where the Audiocodes Syslog viewer is installed. Syslog Server Port : 514 VoIP Debug Level : detailed Start the Audiocodes syslog viewer and click on the play button to start the capture. Continue reading

Audiocodes MediaPack Loses Static IP Address

2019-01-29 1 min read Audiocodes Erwin Bierens
By default the Audiocodes MediaPacks, sent out a BootP request during a cold start of the device. If you have a enterprise DHCP server active in the network this will probaly respond (undesired) to this request and will give you a DHCP release from the DHCP pool. This way the MediaPack will receive a new IP address from the DHCP pool everytime it will have a cold start. The setting ‘BootPSelectiveEnable = 1’ enables the device’s integral BootP client to filter unsolicited BootP/DHCP replies and accepts only BootP replies that contain the text ‘AUDC’ in the vendor specific information field of the request. Continue reading

Upgrade Audiocodes OVOC 7.4.328 to 7.6.143

2018-11-15 2 min read Audiocodes Erwin Bierens
AudioCodes One Voice Operations Center (OVOC) is a voice network management solution that combines management of voice network devices and quality of experience monitoring into a single, intuitive web-based application. / Upgrading Download the right ISO from the Audiocodes site. Here’s the deeplink (link) Mount the ISO to the linux system in your Hypervisor. Login using Putty to the SSH shell with user acems and default password acems. Promote yourself to root with: Continue reading
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