CUBE counts any response to an OPTIONS ping (503, 200 OK and so on) as reachable and busies out the dial-peer only after the retry count is exhausted with no response.

Checked 2026-09-25

CUBE monitors all the destinations irrespective of the response (503, 200 OK, and so on) that it receives.
Vendor
Cisco
Product
Cisco Unified Border Element
Subsystem
SIP trunk monitoring
Deployment
on-premises
Region
not restricted
Release range
Cisco IOS XE 17.6 onwards
Checked
2026-09-25

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Setting up CUBE for a carrier SIP trunk: source note cube-carrier-trunk-setup-options-busyout. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cube-carrier-trunk-setup-options-busyout

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-cube-carrier-trunk-setup-options-busyout,
  title  = {Setting up CUBE for a carrier SIP trunk: source note cube-carrier-trunk-setup-options-busyout},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cube-carrier-trunk-setup-options-busyout},
  note   = {Source note cube-carrier-trunk-setup-options-busyout, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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