Search History; About Searches; Search History List - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

Search history

The Search history page
place since the VCS was last restarted.

About searches

Before a call can be placed, the endpoint being called must be located. The VCS sends and receives a series
of messages during its attempt to locate the endpoint being called; these messages are each known as
searches. An individual call can have one or more searches associated with it, and these searches can be of
different types.
The type of search message that is sent depends on whether the call is for SIP or H.323, and whether the call
request was received locally or from an external zone, as follows:
H.323 calls that are placed locally: two messages are sent - the first is an ARQ which locates the device
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being called, and the second is the call Setup which sends a request to the device asking it to accept the
call. Each message shows up as a separate search in the
message is associated with a particular call.
H.323 searches originating from external zones: an LRQ will appear in the
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SIP: a single message is sent in order to place a call: this is either a SIP INVITE or a SIP OPTIONS.
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Note that an individual call can have one or more searches associated with it, and these searches can be of
different types. Each search has an individual Search ID; each call has an individual Call Tag (see
calls).

Search history list

The search history summary list shows the following information:
Field Description
Start time The date and time at which the search was initiated.
Search The type of message being sent.
type
Source The alias of the endpoint that initiated the call.
Destination The alias that was dialed from the endpoint. This may be different from the alias to which the call
was actually placed, as the original alias may have been transformed either locally or before the
neighbor was queried.
Status Indicates whether or not the search was successful.
Actions Allows you to click View to go to the
Filtering the list
To limit the list of calls, enter one or more characters in the Filter field and click Filter. Only those calls that
contain (in any of the displayed fields) the characters you entered are shown.
To return to the full list of calls, click Reset.
Cisco VCS Administrator Guide (X7.1)
(Status > Search history) lists the most recent 255 searches that have taken
Search details
Overview and status information
Search history page, but only the Setup
Search history
page, which lists full details of this search.
page.
Identifying
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