The following are the provisioning interfaces of Unified Communications Manager:

• Administration XML

• Cisco Extension Mobility service

The following are the device monitoring and call control interfaces of Unified Communications Manager:

The following are the serviceability interfaces of Unified Communications Manager:

Unified Communication Manager 8.0(1) and later supports the external call control (ECC) feature, which enables an adjunct route server to make call-routing decisions for Unified Communications Manager by using the Cisco Unified Routing Rules Interface. When you configure external call control, Unified Communications Manager issues a route request that contains the calling party and called party information to the adjunct route server. The adjunct route server receives the request, applies appropriate business logic, and returns a route response that instructs Unified Communications Manager on how the call should get routed, along with any additional call treatment that should get applied.

For more information, see the Routing Rules Interface Tech Center on the Cisco Developer Network http://developer.cisco.com/web/curri/home.

Microsoft has defined some basic APIs which can be invoked/supported from application code. All Microsoft defined APIs that can be used from the TAPI applications are declared in TAPI.H file. TAPI.H file is a standard library file that is with the VC++/VS2005 Installation. For example, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include\TAPI.H.

To use any specific API which is added or provided by Cisco TSP, the application needs to invoke that API by using the LineDevSpecific API.

Simple application

#include <tapi.h>#include <string>
#include "StdAfx.h"
class TapiLineApp {
LINEINITIALIZEEXPARAMS mLineInitializeExParams;//was declared in TAPI.h files
     HLINEAPP    mhLineApp;
     DWORD       mdwNumDevs;
     DWORD dwAPIVersion = 0x20005
    
public:
    // App Initialization
    // Note hInstance can be NULL
    // appstr – value can be given the app name "test program"
    bool TapiLineApp::LineInitializeEx(HINSTANCE hInstance, std::string appStr)
{
    unsigned long lReturn = 0;
    mLineInitializeExParams.dwTotalSize = sizeof(mLineInitializeExParams);
    mLineInitializeExParams.dwOptions = LINEINITIALIZEEXOPTION_USEEVENT;
    lReturn = lineInitializeEx (&mhLineApp, hInstance, NULL, appStr.c_str),
 &mdwNumDevs,&dwAPIVersion,&LineInitializeExParams);
    if ( lReturn = = 0 ) {
        return true;
    }
    else {
        return false;
    }
}
//App shutdown
bool TapiLineApp::LineShutdown()
{
    return! (lineShutdown (mhLineApp));
}
};

The following are Cisco TSP components:

• CiscoTSP dll– TAPI service implementation provided by Cisco TSP

• CTIQBE over TCP/IP – Cisco protocol used to monitor and control devices and lines

• CTI Manager Service – Manages CTI resources and connections to devices. Exposed to 3rd-party applications via Cisco TSP and/or JTAPI API

Cisco Media Driver can be used to play announcements or record the call media. For information about the installation of the Media Drivers, see Cisco Media Driver Selection.

The TAPI browser is a TAPI debugging application. It can be downloaded from the Microsoft MSDN Web site at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/TAPI/tb20.zip. The TAPI browser can be used to initialize TAPI, for use by TAPI developers to test a TAPI implementation and to verify that the TSP is operational.

The CTI Manager, along with the Cisco Unified TSP, provide an abstraction of the Unified Communications Manager cluster that allows TAPI applications to access Unified Communications Manager resources and functionality without being aware of any specific Unified Communications Manager. The Unified Communications Manager cluster abstraction also enhances the failover capability of CTI Manager resources. A failover condition occurs when a node fails, a CTI Manager fails, or a TAPI application fails, as illustrated in the following figure.

Note	Cisco does not support CTI device monitoring or call control with 3rd-party devices.

RTP events are generated as LINE_CALLDEVSPECIFIC events that contain Call Handle details of the call. However, to activate the feature, the application must negotiate the extension version greater than or equal to 0x00040001 when opening the line.

Due to dependency on the extension version of the line, the Media Events, RTP_START / STOP, are reported differently to the application:

• If extension version is less than EXTVERSION_FOUR_DOT_ZERO - 0x00040000 — TSP reports LINE_DEVSPECIFIC event to application on the line irrespective whether call object is present. In this case, even if a call is DeAllocated after IDLE state, RTP_STOP events are delivered to the application.

• If extension version is greater than or same as EXTVERSION_FOUR_DOT_ZERO - 0x00040000—TSP does report the Media Events if the Call Object is DeAllocated from Application.

So a check must be added for the Extension Version to maintain backward compatibility. So it must not be assumed that RTP events will always come before IDLE event.

Cisco Unified TSP supports the Cisco baseline for baselining of Quality of Service (QoS). Cisco Unified TSP marks the IP Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) for QBE control signals that flow from TSP to CTI with the value of the Service parameter "DSCP IP for CTI Applications" that CTI sends in the ProviderOpenCompletedEvent. The Cisco TAPI Wave driver marks the RTP packets with the value that CTI sends in the StartTransmissionEvent. The system stores the DSCP value received in the StartTransmissionEvent in the DevSpecific portion of the LINECALLINFO structure, and fires the LINECALLINFOSTATE_DEVSPECIFIC event with the QoS indicator.

Note	QoS information is not available if you begin monitoring in the middle of a call because existing calls do not have an RTP event.

There is a need to separate the presentability aspects of a number (calling, called, and so on) from the actual number itself. For example, when the number is not to be displayed on the IP phone, the information might still be needed by another system, such as Unity VM. Hence, each number/name of the display name needs to be associated with a Presentation Indication (PI) flag, which will indicate whether the information should be displayed to the user or not.

You can set up this feature as follows:

You can configure Cisco Unified TSP to provide first-or third-party call control.

Third-Party Call Control

In third-party call control, the control of an audio stream terminating device is not "local" to the Unified Communications Manager. In such cases, the controller might be the physical IP phone on your desk or a group of IP phones for which your application is responsible.

Note	Cisco does not support CTI device monitoring or call control with 3rd-party devices.

For first-party call control, a CTI port device must exist in the Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Because each port can only have one active audio stream at a time, most configurations only need one line per port.

A CTI port device does not actually exist in the system until you run a TAPI application and a line on the port device is opened requesting LINEMEDIAMODE_AUTOMATEDVOICE and LINEMEDIAMODE_INTERACTIVEVOICE. Until the port is opened, anyone who calls the directory number that is associated with that CTI port device receives a busy or reorder tone.

The IP address and UDP port number is either specified statically (the same IP address and UDP port number is used for every call) or dynamically. By default, CTI ports use static registration.

Dynamic Port Registration enables applications to specify the IP address and UDP port number on a call-by-call basis. Currently, the IP address and UDP port number are specified when a CTI port registers and is static through the life of the registration of the CTI port. When media is requested to be established to the CTI port, the system uses the same static IP address and UDP port number for every call.

An application that wants to use Dynamic Port Registration must specify the IP address and UDP port number on a call before invoking any features on the call. If the feature is invoked before the IP address and UDP port number are set, the feature will fail, and the call state will be set depending on when the media time-out occurs.

You can use Cisco Unified TAPI to control CTI route points. CTI route points allow Cisco Unified TAPI applications to redirect incoming calls with an infinite queue depth. This allows incoming calls to avoid busy signals.

CTI route point devices have an address capability flag of LINEADDRCAPFLAGS_ROUTEPOINT. When your application opens a line of this type, it can handle any incoming call by disconnecting, accepting, or redirecting the call to some other directory number. The basis for redirection decisions can be caller ID information, time of day, or other information that is available to the program.

The Media Termination at Route Point feature lets applications terminate media at route points. This feature enables applications to pass the IP address and port number where they want the call at the route point to have media established.

The system supports the following features at route points:

• Answer

• Multiple Active Calls

• Redirect

• Hold

• UnHold

• Blind Transfer

• DTMF Digits

• Tones

The Cisco Unified TSP supports monitoring calls on lines that represent Call Park Directory Numbers (Call Park DNs). The Cisco Unified TSP uses a device-specific extension in the LINEDEVCAPS structure that allows TAPI applications to differentiate Call Park DN lines from other lines. If an application opens a Call Park DN line, all calls that are parked to the Call Park DN get reported to the application. The application cannot perform any call control functions on any calls at a Call Park DN.

To open Call Park DN lines, you must check the Monitor Call Park DNs check box in Unified Communications Manager User Administration for the Cisco Unified TSP user. Otherwise, the application will not perceive any of the Call Park DN lines upon initialization.

In the Cisco Unified TAPI solution, the TAPI application and Cisco Unified TSP get installed on the same machine. The Cisco Unified TAPI application and Cisco Unified TSP do not directly interface with each other. A layer written by Microsoft sits between the TAPI application and Cisco Unified TSP. This layer, known as TAPISRV, allows the installation of multiple TSPs on the same machine, and it hides that fact from the Cisco Unified TAPI application. The only difference to the TAPI application is that it is now informed that there are more lines that it can control.

Consider an example—assume that Cisco Unified TSP1 exposes 100 lines, and Cisco Unified TSP2 exposes 100 lines. In the single Cisco Unified TSP architecture where Cisco Unified TSP1 is the only Cisco Unified TSP that is installed, Cisco Unified TSP1 would tell TAPISRV that it supports 100 lines, and TAPISRV would tell the application that it can control 100 lines. In the multiple Cisco Unified TSP architecture, where both Cisco Unified TSPs are installed, this means that Cisco Unified TSP1 would tell TAPISRV that it supports 100 lines, and Cisco Unified TSP2 would tell TAPISRV that it supports 100 lines. TAPISRV would add the lines and inform the application that it now supports 200 lines. The application communicates with TAPISRV, and TAPISRV takes care of communicating with the correct Cisco Unified TSP.

Ensure that each Cisco Unified TSP is configured with a different username and password that you administer in the Unified Communications Manager Directory. Configure each user in the Directory, so devices that are associated with each user do not overlap. Each Cisco Unified TSP in the multiple Cisco Unified TSP system does not communicate with the others. Each Cisco Unified TSP in the multiple Cisco Unified TSP system creates a separate CTI connection to the CTI Manager as shown in the following figure. Multiple Cisco Unified TSPs help in scalability and higher performance.

With CTI Device/Line restriction implementation, a CTIRestricted flag is be placed on device or line basis. When a device is restricted, it assumes that all its configured lines are restricted.

Cisco Unified TSP does not report any restricted devices and lines back to application. When a CTIRestricted flag is changed from Unified Communications Manager Administration, Cisco Unified TSP treats it as normal device/line add or removal.