Cisco 7942G (SIP42.9-4-2) Failover Configuration [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Hi all,
It’s slightly OT, but hopefully someone can help. I’m struggling with getting Cisco IP Phone 7942G to fail over to our secondary Asterisk server in the event of a primary failure.
We recently bought a bunch of new Cisco 7942G phones, which now come with the requirement of FW > 9.3(1)SR1
Unfortunately this new firmware is the version that requires the use of the
I can provision the phone with one server working, however when I make that primary server “disappear” (unload module chan_sip.so), the phone doesn’t failover to the secondary. The old model phone (FW 8-5-4S) fails over to
I have tried configuring
Has anyone had any joy with configuring these later model 7942G’s? (or 7965G’s, as they suffer the same problem)
I have inserted a copy of my current config attempt below – Note that this config is dynamically parsed and [_PRIM_VOIP] and [_SEC_VOIP] are replaced at TFTP-serve-time with the actual IPs of the Asterisk servers.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards, Calum
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