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Table of Contents
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Hardware/System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Supported Phones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
User Guide Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Interface Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Installing RemotePhoneControl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Using RemotePhoneControl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Release Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
RemotePhoneControl Installation and User Guide
Overview
Overview
Singlewire’s RemotePhoneControl application was originally developed as a support tool to allow
authorized you to remotely connect to and view an IP phone, regardless of where the phone is located.
By viewing an image of the phone via a web browser, you can quickly determine if there’s a problem
with the telephony infrastructure or if the problem is due to user error.
However, RemotePhoneControl allows you to do things beyond simply viewing the screen of any
XML-capable phone. Not only can you see multiple phones or view the phone’s operation, you can
actually remotely seize control of a phone for testing, troubleshooting, and training purposes.
Intended Audience
This user guide is written with two audiences in mind: the installers and users of RemotePhoneControl.
Hardware/System Requirements
RemotePhoneControl has the following requirements:
• 256 Mb RAM
• 500 Mb HD space
• 1 GHz Pentium Processor
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 6.0.x, 6.1.x, 7.0.x, 7.1.x, 8.0.x, 8.5,
and 8.6.
Supported Phones
RemotePhoneControl supports the following phones:
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Overview
Interface Orientation
The interface for RemotePhoneControl has two windows: a Settings window where you set up the
phones you’d like to view, and a Phone window, which displays the phone’s interface that you’re
controlling.
Settings Window
Phone Window
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Overview
Troubleshooting
If you’ve followed the instructions in this guide and are still having trouble getting
RemotePhoneControl to work, “Troubleshooting” on page 24 may help you figure out what’s wrong.
Help
As of January 1, 2015, RemotePhoneControl is now offered as one of Singlewire’s free applications for
Cisco IP phones. It is offered in good faith to anyone in the world who would care to use it. Singlewire
does not offer technical or developmental support for RemotePhoneControl.
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Installing RemotePhoneControl
Installing RemotePhoneControl
Before you can begin using RemotePhoneControl, you must download its installation files and install
RemotePhoneControl on your computer. You will need access to the Internet to perform the
installation.
Step 1 Open a web browser and go to www.singlewire.com/remotephonecontrol. The Free Applications for
Cisco IP Phones page appears.
Step 2 Scroll down to the RemotePhoneControl area and click the RemotePhoneControl button, which will
download the RPC_V2.zip file containing:
• The RemotePhoneControl application (RemotePhoneControl_2.5.2.exe)
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Step 5 Click the Run button. InstallAnywhere will begin the installation process.
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Installing RemotePhoneControl
Step 6 Click the I accept the terms of the License Agreement radio button and click the Next button. The
Introduction - New Installation window appears.
Step 7 Click the Next button. The Choose Install Folder window appears.
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Step 8 Click the Next button to accept the default location for the RemotePhoneControl installation files or
click the Choose button to navigate to a new location for the installation files. The Pre-Installation
Summary window appears.
Step 9 Click the Install button. The files will begin installing on your computer. This may take a few moments.
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Installing RemotePhoneControl
Step 10 Click the Done button. You have finished installing RemotePhoneControl.
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Configuring RemotePhoneControl to Work with CUCM
Step 1 Open a web browser and log into the administration interface of the CUCM server (the address will be
similar to https://<CUCM IP Address>/ccmadmin). The Cisco Unified CM Administration page
appears.
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Step 2 Select Cisco Unified Seviceability from the Navigation dropdown menu and click the Go button.
The Cisco Unified Serviceability page appears.
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Configuring RemotePhoneControl to Work with CUCM
Note If you have more than one server, you’ll have to select your server from the Server dropdown
menu and click the Go button. The Service Activation page for that server will then appear.
Step 4 Ensure the following services’ checkboxes are selected: Cisco CallManager, Cisco Tftp, Cisco
CTIManager, Cisco AXL Web Service, and Cisco CallManager SNMP Service.
Step 5 Click the Save button to save your changes.
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Configuring RemotePhoneControl to Work with CUCM
Step 6 Click the OK button if you receive a message about activating/deactivating services.
Step 7 Verify that the SNMP service is running by going to Tools | Control Center - Feature Services. The
Cisco CallManager SNMP Service should say it is Activated. If not, click the green arrow in the top
left hand corner to start the service.
Step 8 Repeat Steps 3 through 7 for all nodes in your CUCM cluster.
Step 1 Go to SNMP | V1/V2c | Community String. The SNMP Community String Configuration page
appears.
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Configuring RemotePhoneControl to Work with CUCM
Step 2 Select your server from the Server dropdown menu and click the Find button. The SNMP Community
String Configuration page refreshes.
Step 3 Click the Add New button to create a new community string. The SNMP Community String
Configuration page refreshes again.
Step 4 Enter RemotePhoneControl into the Community String Name field. You will need to remember
this name when you edit RemotePhoneControl’s preferences in “Edit RemotePhoneControl’s
Preferences” on page 18.
Step 5 Select ReadOnly from the Access Privileges dropdown menu.
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Configuring RemotePhoneControl to Work with CUCM
Note If you’re using RemotePhoneControl in conjunction with InformaCast, you can use InformaCast’s
application user. Skip ahead to “Using RemotePhoneControl” on page 17.
Step 1 Go to User Management | Application User. The Find and List Application Users page appears.
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Step 2 Click the Add New button. The Application User Configuration page appears.
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Configuring RemotePhoneControl to Work with CUCM
Step 6 Adjust the filters to find phones where the device name begins with SEP. Click the Find button. The
Find and List Phones window refreshes.
Step 7 Select any and all hardware phones that you want to be able to control with RemotePhoneControl (you
may need to scroll through several pages of phones). Click the Add Selected button.
The phones have been associated with the application user if they are now listed in the Controlled
Devices field.
Step 8 Click the Save button to save your changes.
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Using RemotePhoneControl
Using RemotePhoneControl
Once you have installed RemotePhoneControl and configured CUCM, you’ll need to install your
license key, set up your preferences, and add phones with which to interact.
Step 2 Click the Install button. The Install RemotePhoneControl License File dialog box appears.
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Using RemotePhoneControl
Step 3 Navigate to where you saved the extracted contents of the RPC_V2.zip file, select the
LicenseKey-RemotePhoneControl.txt file, and click the Install button. The About
RemotePhoneControl window refreshes.
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Using RemotePhoneControl
Step 3 Enter your CUCM username and password into the CUCM Login and CUCM Password fields,
respectively. These are the same credentials you used when logging into CUCM in Step 1 on page 9.
Step 4 Enter the name of the SNMP community string you created in Step 4 on page 13 in the CUCM SNMP
Community String field.
Step 5 Click the Save button. Your CUCM’s settings are now saved in RemotePhoneControl’s preferences.
Step 1 Go to File | New Phone. The Create New Phone dialog box appears.
Note You can use any name that makes sense to you, up to 20 characters in length. You may use any
printable character except for slash and backslash. Spaces are also acceptable.
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Note When you have added multiple phones, you can use the Phone dropdown menu to switch
between settings for different phones.
Step 4 Determine whether you will manually enter your phone’s IP address or directory number in the Phone
IP (or DN) field or use the Search button.
Note To use a directory number to select a phone to control, you must have your CUCM preferences
set correctly. See “Edit RemotePhoneControl’s Preferences” on page 18 for more information.
Note This operation may take a few minutes, depending on the number of devices on your CUCM.
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Step 6 Select the phone that you want to view/control and click the Use button. The RemotePhoneControl
Settings window refreshes.
Step 7 Enter the application user’s username in the Application User field. This is the same user you created
in “Create a CUCM Application User” on page 14.
Step 8 Enter the application user’s password in the Password field.
Step 9 Select the refresh rate of the phone from the Refresh Rate slide control.
Step 10 Display a large icon of RemotePhoneControl’s phone display by selecting the Display as large image
checkbox.
Step 11 Click the Open button. The Phone window appears displaying an image of the phone to which you’re
connected.
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Note Even if you set a slow refresh rate, the display will automatically be refreshed for a brief period
after you send the phone a command, and you can also manually request a refresh of the display
at any time by clicking the Refresh button.
If you regularly work with more than one phone, it makes sense to create separate settings for each
phone you need to control. Follow Steps 1 through 11 to add more phones to RemotePhoneControl.
Note You can have multiple phone windows open at once in order to troubleshoot interactions between
remote phones.
Note If the action takes too long to be entirely caught by the refresh, or if for any other reason you’d like to
force an update of the display, you can click the Refresh button. However, the phone’s Message Waiting
Indicator light is refreshed every 30 seconds regardless of the refresh rate you selected, and is not
affected by the Refresh button.
You can also use your computer’s keyboard for shortcuts to pressing many of the phone’s buttons, as
shown in the following table.
Buttons Keyboard Equivalents
Dial Keypad The number keysa
Softkeys F1 through F5 are the equivalent of pressing softkeys 1 through 5,
e.g. Select, Clear, Exit, etc.
Messages menu F6
Directories/Contacts menu F7
Services menu F8
Settings menu F9
Hold F10
Mute F11
Applications menu F12
Information button ?
Volume up +
Volume down -
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Note If your phone doesn’t have one of the buttons listed in this table, using its keyboard equivalent won’t
do anything, i.e. pressing F11 for a phone without a Mute button will not mute the call.
Tip If you let your mouse pointer hover over a phone button with a keyboard equivalent, a tooltip will
display, reminding you of the keyboard shortcuts.
Delete a Phone
As your RemotePhoneControl needs change, you may want to delete phones that you’ve added to the
system.
Step 1 Select your phone from the Phone dropdown menu on the RemotePhoneControl Settings window.
Step 2 Go to File | Delete Phone. The Confirm Deletion dialog box appears.
Step 3 Click the Yes button. Confirming the deletion removes the specified settings, and the first remaining
settings will be displayed. If there are no remaining settings, empty “Default” settings will be displayed.
Note If you ever want to rename the default settings, all you need to do is select them, create a new
phone with the name you’d like to use (which copies the settings) and delete the default settings.
Quit RemotePhoneControl
When you’d like to quit the program, go to File | Exit, or simply close the Settings window. Your
settings are saved as you use them, so nothing will be lost. When you start the RemotePhoneControl
again, the phone you had last selected will remain selected in the Settings window.
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Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
This section is intended to help track down and resolve the common problems people face when
installing and working with RemotePhoneControl.
Problem While using RemotePhoneControl to view a remote phone’s directory, such as my missed call
list or corporate directory, clicking a softkey that should dial a directory entry will sometimes just take
the phone off-hook without actually dialing the number.
Solution This is a problem with the phone itself, not RemotePhoneControl, and has been reported to
Cisco. It will need to be fixed by a future phone firmware version.
Problem The refresh time on color phones is still long even though I lowered the Refresh Rate slide
control.
Solution Color phones may take 10 to 20 seconds to display the refreshed screen. This is related to the
firmware the phone is using.
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Release Notes
Release Notes
The following sections contain the release notes for RemotePhoneControl from version 2.5 through
the current version.
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Release Notes
– 7937
– 7971
– 8961
– 9951
– 9971
• Improved Field Names. Several field names in RemotePhoneControl v2.5 have changed in name
to improve readability (their function remains the same):
– IP or DN of phone to control has changed to Phone IP (or DN)
– User associated with phone has changed to Application User
– IP address of Call Manager has changed to CUCM IP (CUCM is an abbreviation for Cisco
Unified CUCM)
– Call Manager login has changed to CUCM Login
– Call Manager password has changed to CUCM Password
– SNMP Community has changed to CUCM SNMP Community String
• Improved Help Information. RemotePhoneControl’s help information has been updated,
elaborated upon, and included as a PDF.
• New Company: Singlewire. In April 2009, the developers, sales personnel, and support staff
involved with IPT applications at CDW/Berbee spun off into a new company: Singlewire Software.
New releases of Berbee applications (RemotePhoneControl v2.5) will branded with the Singlewire
name.
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