When an OPTIONS keepalive fails, CUBE busies out (makes inactive) every dial-peer associated with that profile, so calls can be routed elsewhere.

Checked 2026-09-24

If that ping fails, then all of the associated dial-peers are busied out (inactive) by CUBE.
Vendor
Cisco
Product
CUBE (IOS XE)
Subsystem
SIP trunk monitoring
Deployment
on-premises
Region
not restricted
Release range
IOS XE 17.6 onwards
Checked
2026-09-24

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 24). SIP OPTIONS pings and trunk keepalives: source note sip-options-keepalive-cube-busyout. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-options-keepalive-cube-busyout

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-options-keepalive-cube-busyout,
  title  = {SIP OPTIONS pings and trunk keepalives: source note sip-options-keepalive-cube-busyout},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-options-keepalive-cube-busyout},
  note   = {Source note sip-options-keepalive-cube-busyout, checked 2026-09-24}
}

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