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Clustering and peers 148
About clusters 149
Resource usage within a cluster 151
Managing clusters and peers 152
Setting up a cluster 152
Maintaining a cluster 152
Peer-specific configuration 154
Sharing registrations across peers 155
Sharing bandwidth across peers 155
Cluster upgrades, backup and restore 156
Clustering and FindMe 156
Clustering and Presence 157
Clustering and TMS 157
About the Cluster Subzone 157
Neighboring the local VCS to another VCS cluster 158
TMS Agent replication status 159
Troubleshooting cluster replication problems 160
Dial plan and call processing 161
Call routing process 162
About the VCS's directory service 164
About hop counts 165
Dial plan configuration 166
About the fallback alias 166
About transforms and search rules 168
About pre-search transforms 169
Configuring pre-search transforms 169
Search and zone transform process 171
Configuring search rules 171
Example searches and transforms 175
Filter queries to a zone without transforming 175
Always query a zone with original alias (no transforms) 176
Query a zone for a transformed alias 176
Query a zone for original and transformed alias 177
Query a zone for two or more transformed aliases 178
Stripping @domain for dialing to H.323 numbers 179
Transforms for alphanumeric H.323 ID dial strings 181
Allowing calls to IP addresses only if they come from known zones 183
Configuring policy services 184
About Call Policy 186
Configuring Call Policy 186
Configuring Call Policy rules using the web interface 188
Configuring Call Policy using a CPL script 188
Configuring VCS to use the Cisco TelePresence Advanced Media Gateway 190
Configuring Cisco AM GW policy rules 191
Dialable address formats 193
Dialing by IP address 193
Dialing by H.323 ID or E.164 alias 193
Dialing by H.323 or SIP URI 193
Dialing by ENUM 194