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Preparing Cisco Unified Border Elements

UC Monitor supports Cisco Unified Border Elements (CUBEs), the Cisco session border controller for enterprise IP networks. UC Monitor automatically discovers the devices on which CUBE is enabled and uses SNMP to poll them for the call metrics that appear in UC Monitor reports.

The device on which the CUBE is enabled is discovered as a session border controller and appears in the management console on the Other Devices page.

A Cisco network administrator performs the following tasks to prepare a CUBE device for monitoring with UC Monitor:

• Enable SNMP on the device.
• Enable end-of-call statistics in SIP BYE messages on the device.
• Create an SNMP profile for the device in the UC Monitor management console.

Important: UC Monitor automatically polls a discovered CUBE device. If you do not enable SNMP and end-of-call statistics, the metrics that UC Monitor collects from the device may not be correct.