Registering MGCP Gateways
Situation
I tried to register my MGCP gateway to my CUCM, but everytime I did a “show ccm-manager”, it displays the following:
Troubleshooting
I first thought about an issue about DNS on CUCM. I remembered that, during the CUCM installation, I put CUCM somewhere.
So I went to every corner of CUCM admin pages, where I could find the “CUCM” keyword.
I changed some settings in Entreprise Parameters. I even tried to change the hostname under the CUCM CLI mode:
Then, I examined what’s happening at the router level, with “debug mgcp events”. I noticed this line:

I figured that the gateway could not solve CUCM. I thought that one quick solution was to set up a DNS server on the router.
I did a “no ccm-manager config”, then “ccm-manager config”.
et voilà:
Sidenote
I still don’t know why the gateway IP address shows “unknown” on CUCM :p
