AVAYA Call Management System 14 Administration Manual

Avaya Call Management System

Release 14 Administration
07-601585
July 2007
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Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Intended users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Conventions and terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Reasons for reissue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Change description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Administration documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Software documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Hardware documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Call Center documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Avaya CMS upgrade documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Base load upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Platform upgrades and data migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Avaya Call Management System Upgrade Express (CUE) . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Documentation Web sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 1: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
What is Avaya CMS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
How Avaya CMS stores ACD data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
How Avaya CMS logically stores ACD data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Real-time databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Historical databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Data summarizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
CMS data storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
How Avaya CMS physically stores ACD data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Dbspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chunks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
ACD Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
How Avaya CMS tracks ACD data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
How CMS tracks a call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Events that start or stop data collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Chapter 2: Configuring Avaya CMS Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
General tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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Scripting tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Report Colors tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Creating a new report color scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Threshold Colors tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Creating a new threshold color scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Name Format tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Defining entity formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 3: Using the Dictionary to name contact center entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
About the Dictionary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Dictionary rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Searching the Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
ACD Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Listing all ACD Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Viewing the contents of an ACD Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
ACDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Adding an ACD name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Modifying an ACD name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Deleting an ACD Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Agent groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Adding an agent group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Listing agents in an agent group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Copying an existing agent group to a new name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Adding agents to an existing agent group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Deleting agents in an existing agent group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Deleting an agent group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Agent string values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Changing agent string value descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Agent string value field descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Announcement names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Adding an announcement name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
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Viewing an announcement name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Listing all announcement names for an ACD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Modifying an announcement name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Deleting an announcement name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
AUX reason code names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Adding an AUX reason code name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Viewing an AUX reason code name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Listing all AUX reason code names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Modifying an AUX reason code name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Deleting an AUX reason code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Viewing a calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Listing all calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Adding a calculation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Modifying a custom calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Deleting a custom calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Call work codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Adding a name to a call work code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Viewing a call work code name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Listing all call work code names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Modifying a call work code name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Deleting a call work code name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Constants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Adding a constant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Viewing a constant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Listing all constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Modifying a constant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Deleting a constant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Custom database items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Adding a custom database item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Viewing a custom database item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
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Listing all custom database items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Modifying a custom database item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Deleting a custom database item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Generic string values synonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Viewing generic string values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Modifying generic string values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Location IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Adding a location ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Viewing a location ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Listing all location IDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Modifying a location ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Deleting a Location ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Login ID names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Adding a name to a login ID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Viewing a login ID name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Listing all login ID names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Modifying a login ID name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Deleting a login ID name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Logout reason code names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Adding a logout reason code name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Viewing a logout reason code name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Listing all logout reason code names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Modifying a logout reason code name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Deleting a logout reason code name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Split/skill string values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Viewing split/skill string values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Modifying split/skill string values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Split/skill string value field descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Split/Skill names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Adding a split/skill name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
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Viewing a split/skill name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Listing all the split/skill names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Modifying a split/skill name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Deleting a split/skill name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Standard database items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Viewing a standard database item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Viewing all standard database items alphabetically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Trunk group names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Adding a trunk group name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Viewing a trunk group name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Listing all trunk group names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Modifying a trunk group name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Deleting a trunk group name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Trunk string values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Viewing and modifying trunk string values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Trunk string values field descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
VDN names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Adding a VDN name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Viewing a VDN name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Listing all VDN names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Modifying a VDN name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Deleting a VDN name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Vector names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Adding a vector name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Viewing a vector name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Listing all vector names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Modifying a vector name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Deleting a vector name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Dictionary reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Printing Dictionary reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Running an agent group members report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
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Chapter 4: Using reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Interfaces for reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Types of reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
What reports summarize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Choosing a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Generating a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Printing a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Printing a Historical report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Changing the print setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Restarting a report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Chapter 5: Scripting CMS operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Tasks scripts can automate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Interactive and automatic scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Creating scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Accessing scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Accessing the script options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Creating an interactive report script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Creating an automatic report script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Creating a script to export report data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Creating a script to export report data as HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Scripting other Supervisor operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Actions not associated with reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Scripting an input window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Scripting an action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Organizing scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Error and warning messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Chapter 6: Administering contact center agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Starting or stopping an agent trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Viewing current agent trace states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Listing agents traced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Changing agent skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Changing skills for multiple agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Changing extension split assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Moving extensions between splits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
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Running a split members report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Chapter 7: Administering the contact center configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
ACD Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
ACD Group capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
ACD Groups feature interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Adding an ACD Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Listing all ACD Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Adding an ACD to an ACD Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Viewing the contents of an ACD Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Deleting an ACD from an ACD Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Modifying an ACD Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Deleting an ACD Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Call work codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Adding call work codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Viewing call work codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Listing all call work codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Deleting call work codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
VDN skill preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Changing VDN skill preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Viewing VDN skill preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Listing all VDN skill preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Split/skill call profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Adding split/skill call profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Viewing an existing split/skill call profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Modifying a split/skill call profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Deleting a split/skill call profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Trunk group assignments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Viewing all trunk group assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
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Viewing a single trunk group assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Viewing a trunk group assignment by VDN or split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Trunk group members report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Running a trunk group members report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
VDN-to-vector assignments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Viewing all VDN-to-vector assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Listing VDNs associated with a vector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Modifying VDN-to-vector assignments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
VDN call profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Adding a VDN call profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Viewing an existing VDN call profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Modifying a VDN call profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Deleting a VDN call profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Vector configuration report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Running vector configuration reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Chapter 8: Administering exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
About exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Types of Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Exception capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Exception notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Changing exception notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Agent exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Adding agent exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Modifying agent exceptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Deleting agent exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Agent exception definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
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Agent exceptions report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Split/skill exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Adding split/skill exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Modifying split/skill exceptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Deleting split/skill exceptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Split/skill exception definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Split/skill exceptions report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Trunk group exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Adding trunk group exceptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Modifying trunk group exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Deleting trunk group exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Trunk group exception definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Trunk group exceptions report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
VDN exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Adding VDN exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Modifying VDN exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Deleting VDN exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
VDN exception definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
VDN exceptions report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Vector exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Adding vector exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Modifying vector exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Deleting vector exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Vector exception definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Vector exceptions report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Data collection exceptions report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Running a data collection exceptions report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Malicious call trace report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Running a malicious call trace report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Real-time exceptions log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
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Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Running the real-time exceptions log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Chapter 9: Administering user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Example of user permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
User data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Adding a CMS user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Viewing CMS users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Modifying CMS users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Deleting CMS users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
ACD access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Adding ACD access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Viewing ACD access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Listing all ACD access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Modifying ACD access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Deleting ACD access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Feature access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Viewing Feature Access user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Listing all Feature Access user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Modifying Feature Access user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Main Menu Addition Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Viewing Main Menu Addition Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Listing all Main Menu Addition Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Assigning or modifying Main Menu Addition Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Split/Skill access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Adding split/skill user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Viewing split/skill user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Listing all split/skill user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Modifying split/skill user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
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Deleting split/skill user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
Trunk group access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Adding trunk group user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Viewing trunk group user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Listing all trunk group user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Modifying trunk group user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Deleting trunk group user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Vector access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Adding vector user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Viewing vector user permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Listing all vector user permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Modifying vector user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Deleting vector user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
VDN access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Adding VDN user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Viewing VDN user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Listing all VDN user permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Modifying VDN user permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
Deleting VDN user permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Chapter 10: Configuring CMS system settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
CMS state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Changing the CMS state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Changing the master ACD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
Data collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Changing the data collection state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Data Storage Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
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Viewing Data Storage Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Modifying Data Storage Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Data summarizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Archiving data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
External Application Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Enabling or disabling the External Application Status feature . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Viewing the states of external applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
Starting or stopping external applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Free Space Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Viewing Free Space Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Viewing Free Space Allocation contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Modifying Free Space Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
Verifying chunk allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Migrating CMS data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
Migrating R3 data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Pseudo-ACDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
Creating a pseudo-ACD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
Viewing pseudo-ACDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Deleting a pseudo-ACD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
Loading pseudo-ACD data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Storage intervals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Viewing storage interval settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Changing the intrahour interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Changing switch time zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
Modifying data summarizing settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Switch setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482
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Viewing switch setup data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Listing all switch setup data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484
Chapter 11: Maintaining CMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
ACD status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Viewing ACD status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
Listing ACD status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
Description of the ACD Status window - with EAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Description of the ACD Status window - without EAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
Requesting ACD translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Archiving status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Viewing the archiving status of a single ACD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Viewing the archiving status of all ACDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Description of the Archiving Status - List All window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Backup/restore devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Viewing a backup/restore device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Listing all backup/restore devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Adding a backup/restore device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Modifying a backup/restore device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Deleting a backup/restore device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Data Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
CMSADM backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Maintenance backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
Tape drives and cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Things to consider when backing up or restoring data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Factors that impact backup and restore times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Reducing tape backup and restore times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Alternate methods for backing up and restoring data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
Performing a CMSADM backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
Performing a maintenance backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
Description of the Backup Data window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
The Backup Data window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Field descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Data to back up descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
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Common backup error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Labeling the backup volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Recovery kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Restoring data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Automatic restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
Manual restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524
Recommendation to restart your CMS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Connection status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
Viewing the connection status of an ACD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Listing the connection status of all ACDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Description of the Connection Status window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
Administering a printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Adding a new printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
Listing all printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
Modifying printer options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
Deleting a printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Maintenance Error Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
Running a Maintenance Error Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540
Severity of errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
Maintenance Error Log messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
ACD Administration Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Running the ACD Administration Log report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
ACD Administration Log window field descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
Chapter 12: Using Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
Logging in to CMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
Logging in to CMS from the remote console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
Logging in to CMS from the server console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572
Administering passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574
Changing a user's password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
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Administering password aging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
Using Solaris printer commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
Chapter 13: Using timetables and shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
Timetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
Creating and scheduling a timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
Adding tasks to a timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Listing all timetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Copying a timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
Copying timetable tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
Modifying timetable tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Editing timetables globally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
Globally editing tasks in a timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
Deleting tasks from a timetable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
Deleting a timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602
Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602
Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
Creating a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
Adding tasks to a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
Running a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
Modifying a shortcut description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607
Copying a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
Copying shortcut tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
Modifying shortcut tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
Deleting shortcut tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612
Deleting a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
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Preface

Avaya Call Management System (CMS) is an application for businesses and organizations that use Avaya communication servers to process large volumes of telephone calls using the Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) feature. Avaya CMS supports solutions for routing and agent selection, multi-site contact centers, remote agents, reporting, interfaces to other systems, workforce management, desktop applications, system recovery, and quality monitoring.
Avaya CMS is part of the Operational Effectiveness solution of the Avaya Customer Interaction Suite.
This section includes the following topics:
Purpose on page 19
Intended users on page 19
Overview on page 20
Conventions and terminology on page 21
Reasons for reissue on page 22
Availability on page 22
Related documentation on page 23
Support on page 26

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to provide instructions on administering a contact center through Avaya CMS Supervisor.
This information product specifically addresses the functionality of CMS.

Intended users

This document is written for:
Avaya Call Management System (CMS) administrators who have access to all parts of
CMS
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Split/Skill supervisors with limited access to CMS

Overview

This document includes the following topics:
Chapter 1: Introduction on page 27
This chapter provides an overview of this document, password information, and cross-references for Avaya CMS Supervisor usage
Chapter 2: Configuring Avaya CMS Supervisor on page 37
This chapter describes the Supervisor configuration options
Chapter 3: Using the Dictionary to name contact center entities on page 49
This chapter describes how to create synonyms in the Dictionary
Chapter 4: Using reports on page 179
This chapter describes the basic use of the Reports subsystem
Chapter 5: Scripting CMS operations on page 187
This chapter describes how to script common actions
Chapter 6: Administering contact center agents on page 201
This chapter describes how to change agent splits/skills, create agent templates, move extensions between splits, and use agent trace
Chapter 7: Administering the contact center configuration on page 227
This chapter describes how to add or delete call work codes and split/skill call profiles, change VDN skill preferences, view trunk group assignments, change VDN call profiles, and other contact center activities
Chapter 8: Administering exceptions on page 283
This chapter describes how to define exceptions and run exception reports for agents, split/skills, trunk groups, VDNs, and vectors
Chapter 9: Administering user permissions on page 355
This chapter describes how to create users and define, change, or modify associated CMS permissions
Chapter 10: Configuring CMS system settings on page 429
This chapter describes how to change the state of CMS, allocate storage space, specify storage intervals, and other system setup activities
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Chapter 11: Maintaining CMS on page 487
This chapter describes backups, restores, backup strategies, maintenance reports, backup volumes, and labeling
Chapter 12: Using Solaris on page 571
This chapter describes the Sun Microsystems, Inc. Solaris operating system and how to use it with CMS
Chapter 13: Using timetables and shortcuts on page 579
This chapter describes how to use timetables and shortcuts to streamline activities

Conventions and terminology

If you see any of the following safety labels in this document, take careful note of the information presented.
Conventions and terminology
!
CAUTION:
CAUTION: Caution statements call attention to situations that can result in harm to software,
loss of data, or an interruption in service.
!
!
WARNING:
WARNING: Warning statements call attention to situations that can result in harm to hardware
or equipment.
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!
DANGER
DANGER: Danger statements call attention to situations that can result in harm to personnel.
!
!
SECURITY ALERT:
SECURITY ALERT: Security alert statements call attention to situations that can increase the potential
:
for unauthorized use of a telecommunications system.
Note:
Note: In some instances, your communication server and its associated software may
be referred to as "switch". Unless otherwise noted, the term, Communication Manager, includes earlier Avaya communication servers, such as MultiVantage and DEFINITY®.
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Reasons for reissue

This is the first issue of this document.

Availability

Copies of this document are available from one or both of the following sources:
Note:
Note: Although there is no charge to download documents through the Avaya Web site,
documents ordered from the Avaya Publications Center must be purchased.
The Avaya online support Web site, http://www.avayadocs.com
The Avaya Publications Center, which you can contact by:
Voice:
+1-207-866-6701 +1-800-457-1764 (Toll-free, U.S. and Canada only)
Fax:
+1-207-626-7269 +1-800-457-1764 (Toll-free, U.S. and Canada only)
Mail:
GlobalWare Solutions 200 Ward Hill Avenue Haverhill, MA 01835 USA Attention: Avaya Account Manager
E-mail:
totalware@gwsmail.com
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Related documentation

You might find the following Avaya CMS documentation useful. This section includes the following topics:
Change description on page 23
Administration documents on page 23
Software documents on page 24
Hardware documents on page 24
Call Center documents on page 24
Avaya CMS upgrade documents on page 25
Documentation Web sites on page 26

Change description

Related documentation
For information about recent changes made in Avaya CMS, see:
Avaya Call Management System Release 14 Change Description, 07-601579

Administration documents

For more information about Avaya CMS administration, see:
Avaya Call Management System Release 14 Administration, 07-601585
Avaya Call Management System (CMS) Release 14 Database Items and Calculations,
07-601591
Avaya Call Management System Supervisor Release 14 Reports, 07-601590
Avaya Call Management System (CMS) Supervisor Release 14 Installation and Getting
Started, 07-601587
Avaya Call Management System High Availability User Guide, 07-300066
Avaya Call Management System High Availability Connectivity, Upgrade and
Administration, 07-600957
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Software documents

For more information about Avaya CMS software, see:
Avaya Call Management System Release 14 Software Installation, Maintenance, and
Troubleshooting Guide, 07-601578
Avaya CMS Open Database Connectivity Version 5.2, 07-601580
Avaya Call Management System Release 14 LAN Backup User Guide, 07-601589
Avaya Call Management System Release 14 External Call History Interface, 07-601586
Avaya CMS Custom Reports, 585-215-822
Avaya CMS Forecast User Guide, 585-215-825
Avaya Call Management System (CMS) Supervisor Release 14 Report Designer,
07-601588
Avaya Business Advocate Reports, 07-601618

Hardware documents

For more information about Avaya CMS hardware, see:
Avaya Call Management System Sun Netra 210 Computer Hardware Installation,
Maintenance, and Troubleshooting, 07-600963
Avaya Call Management System Sun Fire V880/V890 Computer Hardware Installation,
Maintenance, and Troubleshooting, 07-600965
Avaya Call Management System Sun Blade 100/150 Workstation Hardware Installation,
Maintenance, and Troubleshooting, 07-600964
Avaya Call Management System Terminals, Printers, and Modems, 585-215-874

Call Center documents

For more information about Avaya Call Center documents, see:
Avaya Call Management System Switch Connections, Administration, and
Troubleshooting, 07-601582
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Avaya CMS upgrade documents

There are several upgrade paths supported with Avaya CMS. There is a document designed to support each upgrade.
This section includes the following topics:
Base load upgrades on page 25
Platform upgrades and data migration on page 25
Avaya Call Management System Upgrade Express (CUE) on page 25
Base load upgrades
Use a base load upgrade when upgrading CMS to the latest load of the same version (for example, r14ak.g to r14al.k). A specific set of instructions is included with the upgrade. The Avaya Call Management System Release 14 Base Load Upgrade document is shipped to the customer site with the CMS software CD-ROM as part of a Product Correction Notice (PCN).
Related documentation
Platform upgrades and data migration
Use a platform upgrade when upgrading to a new hardware platform (for example, upgrading from a SPARCserver 5 to a Sun Netra 210). The new hardware platform is shipped from the Avaya factory with the latest CMS load. Therefore, as part of the upgrade you will have the latest CMS load (for example, R3V11 to R14).
For more information about platform upgrades and data migration, see:
Avaya Call Management System Release 14 Platform Upgrade and Data Migration,
07-601581
Avaya Call Management System Upgrade Express (CUE)
Use CUE when CMS is being upgraded from an earlier version (for example, R3V11) to the latest version (for example, R14).
A specific set of upgrade instructions is included with the upgrade. The Avaya Call Management System Release 14 CMS Upgrade Express (CUE) for Sun Computers document is included on the CUE software CD-ROM that is shipped to the customer site with the CUE kit.
For information about customer requirements for CUE upgrades, see:
Avaya Call Management System Release 14 CMS Upgrade Express (CUE) Customer
Requirements, 700419930
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Documentation Web sites

For Avaya product documentation, go to http://www.avayadocs.com. Additional information about new software or hardware updates will be contained in future issues of this book. New issues of this book will be placed on the Web site when available.
Use the following Web sites to view related support documentation:
Information about Avaya products and service
Sun hardware documentation

Support

Contacting Avaya technical support
Avaya provides support telephone numbers for you to report problems or ask questions about your product.
For United States support:
1- 800- 242-2121
For international support:
See the 1-800 Support Directory
http://www.avaya.com
http://docs.sun.com
listings on the Avaya Web site.
Escalating a technical support issue
Avaya Global Services Escalation Management provides the means to escalate urgent service issues. For more information, see the Escalation Management
listings on the Avaya Web site.
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Chapter 1: Introduction

This section provides introductory information on Avaya CMS Supervisor and complementary products. Basic information regarding the interfaces and usage of Supervisor can be found in the Avaya CMS Supervisor Installation and Getting Started document.
This section contains the following topics:
What is Avaya CMS? on page 27
How Avaya CMS stores ACD data on page 27
ACD Administration on page 33

What is Avaya CMS?

Avaya CMS is a software product for businesses and organizations that have an Avaya Communication Manager system and receive a large volume of telephone calls that are processed through the Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) feature. Avaya CMS collects call-traffic data, formats management reports, and provides an administrative interface to the ACD feature on the Communication Manager system.
A CMS administrator accesses the CMS database, generates reports, administers ACD parameters, and monitors call activities to determine the most efficient service for the calling customers.

Operating system

Avaya CMS resides on the Sun Microsystems, Inc. Solaris operating system and uses several Solaris system utilities to communicate with terminals and printers, to log errors, and to execute processes. CMS utilizes the Informix Software, Inc. INFORMIX database management system, which provides an interface to the CMS historical database.

How Avaya CMS stores ACD data

There are two ways to describe how Avaya Call Management System (CMS) stores ACD data:
Logically - How the CMS system organizes data for processing
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Physically - How the CMS system mechanically stores the data on the disk drive
This section includes the following topics:
How Avaya CMS logically stores ACD data on page 28
How Avaya CMS physically stores ACD data on page 31

How Avaya CMS logically stores ACD data

The logical storage of the ACD data has more impact on the CMS user than does the physical storage. The logical data storage controls how a CMS user is able to access and manipulate ACD data. CMS stores all of the ACD data received from the communication server in the real-time and historical databases.
Real-time databases
Real-time databases include tables for the current intrahour interval data and the previous intrahour interval data. The storage interval can be 15, 30, or 60 minutes.
Historical databases
Historical databases include tables for the intrahour, daily, weekly, and monthly data. The following table shows all of the historical database tables and the maximum amount of time data can be stored in a particular table:
Historical database tables Maximum time for data storage
Intrahour historical data 62 days
Daily historical data 5 years (1825 days)
Weekly historical data 10 years (520 weeks)
Monthly historical data 10 years (120 months)
Note:
Note: You can use historical data to predict future call traffic and future agent and trunk
requirements. For more information see Avaya CMS Forecast User Guide.
Data summarizing
When CMS collects data from the ACD, the data is stored in the real-time database for the current interval. At the end of the current interval, the following events occur:
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The data that was in current interval database table is archived to the previous interval
database table.
The data that was in previous interval database table is archived in the historical database
as intrahour historical data.
The data remains in the historical database as intrahour historical data for a maximum of 62 days. At your designated data summarizing time, the intrahour historical data is summarized into daily historical data.
The daily historical data is summarized on a weekly and monthly basis. At the end of your designated week, the daily historical data is summarized into weekly historical data. On the first day of a new month, the daily historical data is summarized into monthly historical data for the previous month.
For more information, see CMS data storage
CMS data storage
The following figure illustrates how CMS stores data.
on page 29.
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Agent (cagent)
Agent (pagent)
The previous interval data is archived at the end of the interval to the intrahour historical data
Split (csplit)
Split (psplit)
Agent (hagent)
ACD#
Data
Real-time database
Current interval data
Trunk (ctrunk)
Trunk group (ctkgrp)
Previous interval data
Trunk (ptrunk)
Trunk group (ptkgrp)
Historical database
Intrahour historical data
Split (hsplit)
Trunk (htrunk)
Vector (cvector)
Vector (pvector)
Trunk group (htkgrp)
CMS processorCommunication Server
VDN (cvdn)
VDN (pvdn)
Vector (hvector)
Call work codes (ccwc)
Call work codes (pcwc)
VDN (hvdn)
The current interval data is archived at the end of the interval to the previous interval data
Call work codes (hcwc)
Intrahour data is summarized into daily data.
Daily data is summarized into weekly data and monthly data
Weekly data is summarized at the end of your designated week.
Monthly data is summarized on the first day of the month for the previous month.
Agent (dagent)
Agent (wagent)
Agent (magent)
Split (dsplit)
Split (wsplit)
Split (msplit)
Daily historical data
Trunk (dtrunk)
Trunk group (dtkgrp)
Vector (dvector)
Weekly historical data
Trunk (wtrunk)
Trunk group (wtkgrp)
Vector (wvector)
Monthly historical data
Trunk (mtrunk)
Trunk group (mtkgrp)
Vector (mvector)
VDN (dvdn)
VDN (wvdn)
VDN (mvdn)
Call work codes (dcwc)
Call work codes (wcwc)
Call work codes (mcwc)
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