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FRINK Engine

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    One appliance, fully offline Foundation

    A virtual appliance for VMware and Nutanix; Azure on request. A short console wizard sets network, DNS, NTP and the admin user – fully offline. No cloud dependency, no agents, no internet connection required. Upgrades are signed packages delivered via virtual CD.

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    Connectors for every UC component Foundation

    Call records, call quality, configuration, registrations and certificates from CUCM, IM&P, Unity Connection, Meeting Server, Expressway and CUBE / IOS-XE gateways – collected with read-only accounts wherever the component allows it. Every product reads from the same data.

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    Storage and retention you decide Foundation

    All data stays on the appliance: up to 10 years, with a retention policy per record type (call records and logs: 180 days by default). Storage usage per node and service is always in view.

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    Alerts Foundation

    One alerting service for every product. Device goes unregistered → alert. Certificate expires in 30 days → alert. Health Check turns red → alert. Rules built in one dialog, no scripting. Delivered by e-mail.

    Alert rules · device registration rule and Health Check alert selection
    Alert rules · device registration rule and Health Check alert selection
    Alert e-mail · Health Check – failed checks on a cluster
    Alert e-mail · Health Check – failed checks on a cluster
    Alert e-mail · certificate expiry
    Alert e-mail · certificate expiry
    Alert e-mail · device registration change
    Alert e-mail · device registration change
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    Log management Foundation

    Collect CUCM, IM&P and Unity Connection service logs and keep them as long as you need; fetch them over the appliance's SFTP server. Retention policy per record type, storage usage per node and service.

    CUCM · service log selection per cluster
    CUCM · service log selection per cluster
    CUCM · log storage per node and service
    CUCM · log storage per node and service
    CUCM · retention policy per record type
    CUCM · retention policy per record type
    CUCM · storage usage of collected records
    CUCM · storage usage of collected records
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    Users, roles and audit trail Foundation

    Access per user and role. Every change made in CUBE Management and Video Room Management is recorded: who changed what, and when.

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    One interface, one sign-in Foundation

    Every product you license appears in the same interface, with one sign-in and one way of working. Add a product later and it appears next to the others.

FRINK Analytics

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    Call overview & statistics Calls & quality

    Total, abnormally disconnected and encrypted calls (CUCM) and average duration – each with change vs. the previous period. Top disconnect reasons at a glance. The same views per CUBE / voice gateway.

    Analytics · CUCM calls overview
    Analytics · CUCM calls overview
    Analytics · CUBE overview
    Analytics · CUBE overview
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    Call quality Calls & quality

    Every call with media metrics graded GOOD / ACCEPTABLE / POOR from Cisco's own media metrics. Trends against the previous week, quality by day and hour, by device group, worst devices.

    CUCM · call quality overview
    CUCM · call quality overview
    CUCM · quality by device group and worst devices
    CUCM · quality by device group and worst devices
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    From one bad call to the root cause Calls & quality

    Search any call → device info → media statistics for both ends → SIP ladder with every message. Numbers, partitions, redirect reasons and cause codes for every call.

    CUCM · list of calls & search
    CUCM · list of calls & search
    CUCM · dial plan info
    CUCM · dial plan info
    CUCM · media statistics per leg
    CUCM · media statistics per leg
    CUCM · SIP ladder with message content
    CUCM · SIP ladder with message content
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    CUCM devices Devices

    Every phone, trunk, gateway and media resource with registration status (synced regularly) and history. Per device: registration node, firmware, device pool, IP, calls per day, quality and disconnect reasons.

    CUCM · devices with registration status
    CUCM · devices with registration status
    CUCM · device details
    CUCM · device details
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    Configuration snapshots & comparison Toolkit

    Nightly copy of the CUCM / IM&P / CUC / Expressway / CMS configuration. Compare any two – or against what runs right now – and see exactly which field changed. Read-only: kept, compared and downloaded, never written back. No secrets inside.

    CUCM · configuration snapshots
    CUCM · configuration snapshots
    CUCM · comparison of snapshots & changes
    CUCM · comparison of snapshots & changes
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    UC certificates Toolkit

    All certificates of every node with days-to-expiry in red / amber / green. Identity certificates and trust stores, self-signed and expired flagged, one search across all clusters.

    UC certificates with days to expiry
    UC certificates with days to expiry
    Certificate details
    Certificate details
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    Call Tester Toolkit

    Build your own call testing environment with any scenario possible; define repetitions and gaps. Test calls are visible live and as a call flow ladder; single scenarios combine into complex test suites.

    CUCM · scenario library with last run result
    CUCM · scenario library with last run result
    CUCM · scenario builder – roles, devices and steps
    CUCM · scenario builder – roles, devices and steps
    CUCM · test suite – scenarios, repetitions and gaps
    CUCM · test suite – scenarios, repetitions and gaps
    CUCM · test run – call flow ladder as it ran
    CUCM · test run – call flow ladder as it ran
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    Operations reporting – day by day Operations reporting

    Day-by-day operations view of the whole infrastructure: calls by quality, media type and duration, PSTN traffic in and out per trunk, conferences and participants (SIP vs. web app). Quality broken down by site, CUCM location, device pool, calling subnet, device type (desk phones, Jabber desktop, Jabber mobile) and VPN vs. office. Worst-first lists: devices, calling and called user IDs, locations and sites with the most poor calls – and calling IPs that belong to no site yet. Sites and network types are assigned per subnet by the administrator; every report follows that mapping.

    Overview · calls by quality, day by day
    Overview · calls by quality, day by day
    Overview · total call duration and quality per day
    Overview · total call duration and quality per day
    Overview · calls by media type · PSTN incoming and outgoing per day
    Overview · calls by media type · PSTN incoming and outgoing per day
    Overview · PSTN calls by trunk per day, incoming and outgoing
    Overview · PSTN calls by trunk per day, incoming and outgoing
    Overview · PSTN calls by trunk, totals
    Overview · PSTN calls by trunk, totals
    Overview · VPN call share and VPN call quality
    Overview · VPN call share and VPN call quality
    Overview · calls and poor calls per day, VPN vs. not VPN
    Overview · calls and poor calls per day, VPN vs. not VPN
    Overview · CMS conferences and participants per day, SIP vs. web app
    Overview · CMS conferences and participants per day, SIP vs. web app
    Call quality · calls by quality per day · devices with the most poor calls
    Call quality · calls by quality per day · devices with the most poor calls
    Call quality · desk phones, Jabber desktop, Jabber mobile
    Call quality · desk phones, Jabber desktop, Jabber mobile
    Call quality · calling and called user IDs with the most poor calls
    Call quality · calling and called user IDs with the most poor calls
    Location quality · by site · calls with and without a site
    Location quality · by site · calls with and without a site
    Location quality · by CUCM location and by device pool
    Location quality · by CUCM location and by device pool
    Location quality · worst locations · quality by calling subnet
    Location quality · worst locations · quality by calling subnet
    Location quality · calling IPs without a site · sites with the most poor calls
    Location quality · calling IPs without a site · sites with the most poor calls
    Conferences · day by day with peak participants and quality split
    Conferences · day by day with peak participants and quality split
    Conferences · participant call legs, SIP vs. web app, day by day
    Conferences · participant call legs, SIP vs. web app, day by day
    Admin · subnets with site and network type (VPN, data centre)
    Admin · subnets with site and network type (VPN, data centre)
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    Operations reporting – monthly and by device group Operations reporting

    Monthly trend for management reports: calls, call hours, conferences, participants and participant hours – six months side by side. Device inventory by type and device group, and the same groups rated by call quality over the last hour, day, 30 and 90 days. One time axis for every question: quality in the last 60 minutes call by call, last 24 hours by hour, last 30 and 90 days by day.

    Monthly · calls, call hours and conferences per month
    Monthly · calls, call hours and conferences per month
    Monthly · conference participants (SIP vs. web app) and participant hours
    Monthly · conference participants (SIP vs. web app) and participant hours
    Inventory · UC devices by type and by device group
    Inventory · UC devices by type and by device group
    Quality by device group · last 60 minutes and last 24 hours
    Quality by device group · last 60 minutes and last 24 hours
    Quality by device group · last 30 and last 90 days
    Quality by device group · last 30 and last 90 days
    Quality by device group · table with good / acceptable / poor shares
    Quality by device group · table with good / acceptable / poor shares
    Quality · last 60 minutes, call by call
    Quality · last 60 minutes, call by call
    Quality · last 24 hours, by hour
    Quality · last 24 hours, by hour
    Quality · last 30 days, by day
    Quality · last 30 days, by day
    Quality · last 90 days, by day
    Quality · last 90 days, by day
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    Calls by country Operations reporting

    Every call that reaches the infrastructure over the internet via Expressway, mapped to the country and the network owner (ISP) it came from. Calls per country and per ISP – totals, share and call time, and the trend per day. Geolocation runs fully offline: the IP-to-country and IP-to-ISP databases ship with the platform and can be updated by file upload.

    Calls over the internet · share of Expressway calls, calls per country and per day
    Calls over the internet · share of Expressway calls, calls per country and per day
    Calls per ISP and per ISP per day
    Calls per ISP and per ISP per day
    Countries and ISPs · calls, share and call time
    Countries and ISPs · calls, share and call time
    Admin · IP geolocation databases, shipped with the platform, updatable
    Admin · IP geolocation databases, shipped with the platform, updatable
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    Call security Security dashboards

    Encrypted vs. not-secured calls: share, trend and the per-day split – for the whole infrastructure or any cluster, device group or trunk. Every not-secured call listed with both devices and numbers; the connections and called devices where unsecured calls cluster. Anonymous callers on SIP trunks: count, share per day and the numbers they dial – the early sign of toll fraud or misrouted trunks.

    Call security · encrypted vs. not secured, per day
    Call security · encrypted vs. not secured, per day
    Trend of calls not secured · calls by security
    Trend of calls not secured · calls by security
    Calls from SIP trunks · share of anonymous callers per day
    Calls from SIP trunks · share of anonymous callers per day
    Anonymous callers on SIP trunks · destinations of anonymous calls
    Anonymous callers on SIP trunks · destinations of anonymous calls
    Top connections and called devices with calls not secured
    Top connections and called devices with calls not secured
    Calls not secured · call by call
    Calls not secured · call by call
    Top connections between devices
    Top connections between devices
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    CUCM security Security dashboards

    Failed logins and refused accesses from the Cisco audit logs of every cluster – administration, OS administration, AXL, RTMT, serviceability, user options. Who, from where, against what: user IDs, client addresses and resources with the most failures, with the day-by-day trend. The report says when a cluster's audit logs are not collected, so a quiet chart is never mistaken for a safe one.

    CUCM failed logins · failed events per day
    CUCM failed logins · failed events per day
    User IDs, client addresses and resources with the most failures
    User IDs, client addresses and resources with the most failures
    Failed events · event by event
    Failed events · event by event
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    Expressway security Security dashboards

    Every token message on the edge: accepted, expired and refused access and refresh tokens – 35 million of them in a month. Refused and expired tokens per day and the users behind them: expired tokens on one user usually mean a stale client, on many a certificate or clock problem. Requests refused with 403: the addresses and URLs probing the Expressway from the internet, per node and per day.

    Expressway security · token messages and refused requests
    Expressway security · token messages and refused requests
    Access token split · token messages per day
    Access token split · token messages per day
    Refused and expired tokens per day · users with the most
    Refused and expired tokens per day · users with the most
    Addresses and URLs refused most often
    Addresses and URLs refused most often
    Requests refused with 403 per day, per node
    Requests refused with 403 per day, per node
    Requests refused with 403 · request by request
    Requests refused with 403 · request by request

FRINK Health Check

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    Health Check for core UC components Health Check

    Every night, or whenever you start it, about 60 checks run across all UC components: services, replication, backups, time sync, certificates, trunks, licensing, syslog errors, disks. Result: a red / amber / green board with history and trends.

    Health Check · overview of the deployment
    Health Check · overview of the deployment
    Health Check · checks and thresholds per technology
    Health Check · checks and thresholds per technology
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    Where Health Check looks Health Check

    All UC components connected to FRINK Engine. Two ways in: by location or by technology (all CUCM clusters side by side). Every check opens into its detail, for example the DRS backup.

    Health Check · cluster board, six areas with every check
    Health Check · cluster board, six areas with every check
    Health Check · one check in detail – DRS backup
    Health Check · one check in detail – DRS backup

FRINK Live Data

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    Live data Live Data

    One board per technology with relevant KPIs – refreshed every minute, as often as Cisco's perfmon interface allows. Short history and today's peaks behind the key figures. Create watch lists for specific phones, trunks, gateways or hunt lists.

    Live Data · overview, one figure per technology
    Live Data · overview, one figure per technology
    Live Data · cluster details with watchlist and history
    Live Data · cluster details with watchlist and history

FRINK CUBE Management

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    CUBE overview Overview

    Every CUBE and IOS-XE voice gateway per site: platform, software, reachability, last read. The dashboard flags running configs that were never saved.

    CUBE · dashboard per site with unsaved running configs
    CUBE · dashboard per site with unsaved running configs
    Device inventory · platform, software, reachability, saved state
    Device inventory · platform, software, reachability, saved state
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    CUBE management Management

    Validated forms for voice service, dial-peers, trunks, codecs, SIP profiles and interfaces – written back as verified CLI, always with an audit trail. Voice and the related interface configuration can be managed here.

    CUBE · interfaces, edited through validated forms
    CUBE · interfaces, edited through validated forms
    CUBE · voice service VoIP as a form instead of CLI
    CUBE · voice service VoIP as a form instead of CLI
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    SIP debug Troubleshooting

    Start or import a SIP debug log and get call flows, a ladder and the dial-peer decisions – failures highlighted.

    SIP debug · imported capture parsed into call flows and dial-peer decisions
    SIP debug · imported capture parsed into call flows and dial-peer decisions
    SIP debug · ladder with the 407 failure highlighted
    SIP debug · ladder with the 407 failure highlighted
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    Dial-peer simulator Troubleshooting

    Which dial-peer will this call hit – answered before you dial.

    screenshot to add · Dial-peer simulator
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    Snapshots & disaster recovery Toolkit

    Automatic snapshot before template deployments and rollbacks, manual snapshots any time, drift and compliance checks, detection of changes made outside FRINK CUBE Management (per gateway, needs archive logging), rollback.

    CUBE · snapshots & disaster recovery with rollback
    CUBE · snapshots & disaster recovery with rollback
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    Templates Toolkit

    Scalable CUBE changes with templates with variables; per-site values through the API.

    CUBE · templates with variables for many gateways
    CUBE · templates with variables for many gateways

FRINK Video Room Management

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    Video rooms overview Overview & utilization

    Rooms board with every room tinted by its worst finding, grouped per site.

    Rooms · every room per site, tinted by its worst finding
    Rooms · every room per site, tinted by its worst finding
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    Utilization Overview & utilization

    Booked vs. actually used, booked-but-empty (no-shows), walk-in use, people counted – per room and per site.

    Room utilization · right now and over the last days
    Room utilization · right now and over the last days
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    Video rooms management Management

    Wake, sleep, mute, restart – one room or all rooms, now or on a weekly schedule. Templates (boardroom, training room), configuration compare, commissioning compliance scan.

    Room · call control and quick actions
    Room · call control and quick actions
    Room · full device configuration, searchable
    Room · full device configuration, searchable
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    Video rooms troubleshooting Troubleshooting

    Live audio/video quality per call, worst first – audio and video judged separately. Packet loss, jitter and quality score over the course of the call, per room. Diagnostics, extended logging and live xFeedback log.

    Active calls · live audio/video quality, worst first
    Active calls · live audio/video quality, worst first
    Room · diagnostics, extended logging and live xFeedback log
    Room · diagnostics, extended logging and live xFeedback log
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    Shure and Lightware 3rd party

    Shure microphones and DSPs, Lightware switchers – monitored and controlled per device alongside the Cisco RoomOS devices they sit next to.

    Shure P300 · system, device and health
    Shure P300 · system, device and health
    Lightware · HDMI routing per output
    Lightware · HDMI routing per output
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    Room snapshots Toolkit

    Snapshots per room – capture before a change or a firmware upgrade, compare afterwards.

    Room snapshots · capture, compare per room
    Room snapshots · capture, compare per room
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    Room alerts Toolkit

    Every alert raised or cleared across the infrastructure, as a live stream.

    Room alerts · every alert raised or cleared, live
    Room alerts · every alert raised or cleared, live

See it on your own infrastructure.

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