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Contact Search Authentication provides additional security for your system by ensuring that users whom access the company directory must authenticate themselves. This feature secures the directory from being accessed by external parties.
Complete the following tasks to set up Contact Search Authentication in Unified Communications Manager. When this feature is configured, users must authenticate themselves before searching the directory for other users.
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Confirm that your phones support this feature. Run the Unified CM Phone Feature List report in Cisco Unified Reporting to get a list of phone models that support the feature. |
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Configure Unified Communications Manager for Contact Search Authentication. |
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Use this procedure to configure Unified Communications Manager with the URL to which phone users are directed when they search the directory for other users. |
Confirm that the phones in your deployment support contact search authentication. Run a Phone Feature List report to obtain a full list of phone models that support the feature.
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From Cisco Unified Reporting, click System Reports. |
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Select Unified CM Phone Feature. |
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Click the Unified CM Phone Feature report. |
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Leave the Product field at the default value. |
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From the Feature drop-down, choose Authenticated Contact Search. |
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Click Submit. |
Use this procedure on Unified Communications Manager to configure contact search authentication for phone users.
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Log in to the Command Line Interface. |
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Run the utils contactsearchauthentication status command to confirm the contact search authentication setting on this node. |
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If you need to configure contact search authentication:
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Repeat this procedure on all Unified Communications Manager cluster nodes.
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Use this procedure to configure Unified Communications Manager with the directory server URL to which UDS sends user search requests. The default value is https://<cucm-fqdn-or-ip>:port/cucm-uds/users.
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The default UDS port is 8443. When contact search authentication becomes enabled, the default UDS port switches to 9443. If you then disable contact search authentication, you must change the UDS port back to 8443 manually. |
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From Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration, choose . |
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In the Secure Contact Search URL text box, enter the URL for secure UDS directory requests.
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Click Save. |
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