Lucent Technologies DEFINITY Enterprise Communications Server Release 8.2 Instructions Manual

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Features and technical reference 
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A user may not wish to be disturbed by the arrival of incoming calls, yet not want 
calls to be redirected immediately to coverage. For example, an executive may 
want a secretary to answer calls before they redirect to coverage. The bridging 
user (the secretary) is not affected by the executive’s activation of Ringer Cutoff.
If a primary extension and all other users with bridged appearances of the primary 
extension activate Ringer Cutoff, an incoming call silently alerts all of the 
telephones and then redirects to coverage.
Interactions
nAutomatic Callback
If Ringer Cutoff is active, an Automatic Callback call returns to the user’s 
telephone with the normal 3-burst ring.
nBridging
A bridging user is not affected by a primary extension’s activation of 
Ringer Cutoff. Nor is the primary extension affected by the bridging user’s 
activation of Ringer Cutoff.
nCall Forwarding All Calls
If Ringer Cutoff and Call Forwarding All Calls are active, the user receives 
redirect notification, if you set Redirection Notification to 
y for the 
extension.
nDistinctive Ringing
Ringer Cutoff turns off only the distinctive ringing of internal and external 
calls. Intercom ringing, priority ringing, redirect notification, and manual 
signaling are not turned off.
nIntercom
If Ringer Cutoff is active, intercom calls still ring the user’s telephone.
nManual Signaling
If Ringer Cutoff is active, Manual Signaling still rings the user’s telephone.
nRingback Queuing
If Ringer Cutoff is active, the return call for Ringback Queuing still rings 
the user’s telephone with a 3-burst alerting signal.
nPriority Calling
If Ringer Cutoff is active, priority calls still ring at the user’s telephone.
nSend All Calls
When Ringer Cutoff and Send All Calls are both active, the user receives 
redirect notification, when Redirection Notification is set to 
y for that 
extension. 
						

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Ringing — Abbreviated and Delayed
Ringing — Abbreviated and Delayed allows you to assign one of four ring types 
to each call appearance on a telephone. Whatever treatment is assigned to a call 
appearance is automatically assigned to each of its bridged call appearances.
Detailed description
Ring types fall into two categories:
nThose that alert  consistently and don’t change:
— Ringing, in which the lamp flashes and audible ringing occurs
— Silent ringing, in which the lamp flashes and audible ringing does 
not occur
nThose that transition from one ringing state to another:
— Abbreviated ringing, in which ringing continues for as many cycles 
as specified by the automatic abbreviated/delayed transition interval 
and then changes to silent alerting
— Delayed ringing, in which visual alerting continues for as many 
cycles as specified by the automatic abbreviated/delayed transition 
interval and then changes to ringing
For a station with call appearances that have either abbreviated or delayed ringing, 
an abbreviated-ring button associated with that station’s extension can be assigned 
on a different station. When one of those call appearances is being alerted, 
pressing the button forces immediate transition of the alerting — that is, from 
ringing to silence or from silence to ringing.
This feature is most useful in bridging situations in which some users want to be:
nAudibly alerted to a call immediately upon its arrival
nAudibly notified if the call has not been answered within a specified 
number of rings or if they have indicated.
nAble to stop the audible alerting if the call is not being answered by the 
principal and the user is not able to answer the call.
Because ring type can be specified on a per-station basis, mixing ring-type 
specifications within a station’s access to a particular extension is possible. 
						

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For Ringing — Abbreviated and Delayed, each call appearance must be:
nAssigned a ring type
nAdministered to transition when the:
— Abbreviated/delayed transition interval is reached or when the user 
presses the abbreviated ring button
—  user presses the abbreviated ring button, regardless of the 
abbreviated/delayed transition interval
Considerations
nYou cannot assign Ringing — Abbreviated and Delayed to an attendant 
console.
nYou can assign Abbreviated and Delayed Ringing to analog stations. 
However, because analog stations cannot visually alert, a user may 
unexpectedly answer an incoming call while intending to originate a call.
Interactions
nCall Coverage
If the number-of-rings interval for coverage is shorter than the automatic 
transition interval, a call redirects to coverage before audibly alerting a call 
appearance that has delayed ringing. However, timing continues for the 
automatic transition interval in case no coverage point is available and the 
call continues to alert at the station.
When a call is immediately redirected to coverage, the Abbreviated and 
Delayed ringing has no effect.
nCall Forwarding — Busy/Don’t Answer
When a call is forwarded because it is not answered in the specified time, 
the call stops alerting the station and is not affected by the Ringing — 
Abbreviated and Delayed feature. However, timing continues for the 
automatic transition interval in case forwarding fails and the call continues 
to alert at the station.
If the call forward don’t answer interval is shorter than the automatic 
transition interval, the call redirects to the forwarded-to extension before 
ringing a station with a ring type of delayed ringing.
nCall Vectoring — Expert Agent Selection — Logical Agents
Calls routed to a logical agent use the translations for the Ringing — 
Abbreviated and Delayed feature of the station being used by the agent. 
						

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nData Extension Calls
Data Extension calls are not affected by the ring values, but continue to be 
directed by the bridged call alerting administration.
nHospitality Features — Do Not Disturb
The Do Not Disturb feature takes precedence over the Ringing — 
Abbreviated and Delayed feature in blocking ringing to the station.
nISDN — World Class Basic Rate Interface 
Several of the protocol variations supported by the World Class BRI 
feature do not permit the messaging required for control of the station’s 
ringer by Ringing — Abbreviated and Delayed. In this case, ring type is 
forced to a value of ring.
nMultiappearance Preselection and Preference
The system automatically selects any alerting call on a station whether or 
not it is ringing if the Per Button Ring Control field is set to 
n. If the field is 
set to 
y, it selects only audibly ringing calls.
nOff-Premises Station and Off-Premises Extension Lines
You must use ring type of “ring” for OPS and OPX lines.
nPCOL Calls
PCOL calls are not affected by the ring values, but continue to be directed 
by the bridged call alerting administration.
nRedirection Notification
If Redirection Notification is enabled, terminals only receive redirection 
notification if the alerting button or the first call appearance has an 
assigned ring value of ring or abbreviated ring. 
nTerminating Extension Group Calls
TEG calls are not affected by the ring values, but continue to be directed by 
the bridged call alerting administration.
nVoice Mail Systems
Voice mail systems may look for ringing applied to a port to trigger call 
answer. Undesirable adjunct operation may result if ring-type translations 
are inappropriately set for ports serving these adjuncts. 
						

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Features and technical reference 
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Security violations notification
When a security violation occurs, security violations notification (SVN) notifies a 
designated referral point. This can be an attendant console, a display-equipped 
phone, or a phone without display for SVN referral calls with announcements.
The system monitors and reports on the following types of security violations:
nLogin violations
nRemote access barrier code violations
nAuthorization code violations
nStation security code violations
DEFINITY ECS provides the option to log a major alarm if a security violation 
occurs involving a Lucent Technologies services login ID. Lucent Technologies is 
responsible for retiring the alarm.
Refer to DEFINITY ECS Reports for more information on how to run reports, and 
respond to security violations.
To effectively monitor the security of your system, you need to know how often 
both valid and invalid attempts at system entry are normally made. Then you will 
know if the number of invalid attempts is unusually high. A significant increase in 
such attempts can mean the system is being compromised.
NOTE:
It is recommended that you print and clear the security-violation 
measurement reports at least once a month. In a busy system, once a week is 
not too frequent.
Security violation thresholds and notification
As an example, you may determine that during a forty-hour week, it’s normal for 
users to submit about 1,000 valid barrier codes and 150 invalid barrier codes; that 
is, about 3.75 invalid barrier codes are submitted per hour.
With this information, you may decide to declare that a security violation occurs 
during any hour in which 8 invalid barrier codes are submitted. If you know that 
during an 8-hour period, about 30 invalid codes are submitted, you might set the 
threshold to count a security violation when 40 invalid codes are submitted within 
eight hours.
You can administer SVN to place a referral call to the location of your choice 
whenever the established thresholds are reached. All SVN referral calls are 
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Invalid attempts accumulate at different rates in the various security arenas (login, 
authorization code, remote access, and station security code), depending on 
feature usage and the number of users on a server. For this reason, you administer 
thresholds separately for each type of violation.
Sequence of events
The following is the sequence of events that occur when an SVN is enabled and a 
detects a security violation:
1. SVN parameters are exceeded (the number of invalid attempts permitted in 
a specified time interval is exceeded).
2. An SVN referral call (with announcements, if assigned) is placed to a 
designated point, and SVN provides an audit trail containing information 
about each attempt to access the switch.
3. SVN disables a login ID or Remote Access following the security 
violation.
4. The login ID or Remote Access remains disabled until re-enabled by an 
authorized login ID, with the correct permissions.
Reporting
The system reports information about security violations in the following ways:
nIn real time — you can use the monitor security-violations command to 
monitor security violations as they may be occurring. Enter this command, 
followed by the type of security violation you want to monitor (logins, 
remote-access, authorization-codes, or station-security-codes).
nOn an immediate basis — when a security violation occurs, the system 
sends a priority call to a designated referral point (attendant console or 
phone). Thus, there is some chance of apprehending the violator during the 
attempted violation.
Upon notification, you can request the Security Violations Status Reports , 
which show details of the last 16 security violations of each type. The 
Barrier Code and Authorization Code reports  also include the calling party 
number from which the attempt was made, where available.
nOn a historical basis — the number of security violations of each type, as 
well as other security measurements, are collected and displayed in the 
Security Violations Summary and Detail reports. These reports show 
summary information since the counters were reset by the 
clear 
measurements security-violations
 command or since system 
initialization. They do not show all aspects of the individual security 
violations. 
						

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SVN- halt buttons
You can administer buttons for the notification extension to stop notification calls. 
However, this may pose a security risk. Do not use these buttons if you do not 
really need them.
To find out what svn-halt buttons exist in the system, type 
display 
svn-button-location
 and press RETURN.
The SVN Button Locations screen appears.
SVN Referral Call With Announcement
The SVN Referral Call with Announcement option has the capacity to provide a 
recorded message identifying the type of violation accompanying the SVN 
referral call. Using Call Forwarding, Call Coverage, or Call Vector Time-of-Day 
Routing (to route to an extension or a number off the switch), SVN referral calls 
with announcements can terminate to a point on or off the switch.
Use of other means to route SVN referral calls to alternate destinations are not 
supported at this time. An attempt to use an alternate method to route SVN 
referral calls may result in a failure to receive the call or to hear the 
announcement.
SVN BUTTON LOCATIONS
LOGIN SECURITY VIOLATIONS
Name: Administrator______________
Extension: 81234____
REMOTE ACCESS SECURITY VIOLATIONS
Name: Administrator______________
Extension: 81234____
AUTHORIZATION CODE SECURITY VIOLATIONS
Name: Administrator II___________
Extension: 81235____
STATION SECURITY CODE VIOLATIONS
Name: Administrator II___________
Extension: 81235____
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Considerations
nYou may only administer one referral destination per system for each type 
of violation.
nExercise caution when administering bridged appearances for stations that 
are used as SVN referral destinations. SVN referral calls terminating to 
bridged appearances must be accompanied by an announcement message 
or must route to bridge appearances equipped with a display module. SVN 
referral calls that do not have an announcement and terminate to a bridged 
appearance not having a display will not provide an indication of the nature 
of the call.
nAn authorization code violation with remote access generates two SVNs -- 
one displaying “authorization code violation” and one displaying “barrier 
code violation,” even though the correct barrier code was input. These two 
displays help you determine that the violation took place in the context of a 
remote access attempt, not an attempt to place an outgoing call to an ARS 
trunk.
Interactions
nCall Coverage, Call Forwarding, and Call Pickup 
These items are supported for SVN only if you use recorded 
announcements.
nCentralized Attendant Services (CAS)
CAS attendants cannot receive referral calls from branch locations.
nDistributed Communications System (DCS)
SVN does not support referral calls across a DCS network. 
Related topics
‘‘
Monitoring the Access Security Gateway history log’’ on page 336
Refer to ‘‘Login Administration’’ on page 816 to disable a login following a 
security violation.
Refer to ‘‘
Setting up security violations notification’’ on page 341 for instructions.
Refer to ‘‘
Recording announcements’’ on page 382 to record announcements. 
						

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Service observing
Designated users, normally supervisors, can listen to other users’ calls. This 
capability is often used to train agents and monitor service quality in call centers 
and other environments where employees serve customers over the phone. On 
DEFINITY, this is called “service observing” and the user observing calls is the 
“observer.”
This section describes service observing in environments without Automatic Call 
Distribution (ACD) or call vectoring. Refer to DEFINITY ECS Guide to ACD Call 
Centers to use service observing in those environments.
Brief description
Observers can monitor calls to any of the following:
nan extension
na vector directory number (VDN) (on systems with call vectoring)
na logical agent ID (on systems with Expert Agent Selection)
Note that service observing allows you to observe calls to one particular 
extension, not all calls to all extensions at a terminal.
Observers can monitor calls in one of two modes: “listen-only” or 
“listen-and-talk.” The latter permits an observer to hear and speak with all parties 
on a call. The person being monitored doesn’t know an observer is listening to the 
call unless you administer DEFINITY ECS to provide a monitoring tone.
!WARNING:
Listening to someone else’s calls may be subject to federal, state, or 
local laws, rules, or regulations. It may require the consent of one or 
both of the parties on the call. Familiarize yourself with all 
applicable laws, rules, and regulations and comply with them when 
you use this feature.
Observers can use remote access to monitor calls when they’re off-site. In systems 
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How to observe calls
Observers press the service observing button on their phone or dial a feature 
access code, and then dial the extension they want to observe. When using a 
service observing button, observers start in listen-only mode and can toggle 
between listen-only and listen/talk mode by pressing the button. The button lamp 
indicates which mode the observer is in.
By contrast, there are different feature access codes for listen-only and 
listen-and-talk modes. When observers initiate sessions with a feature access 
code, they must choose one of the two modes at the start of the session. They 
cannot switch to the other mode without ending the session and beginning 
another. The feature access codes for service observing are:
nService Observing Listen Only Access Code
nService Observing Listen/Talk Access Code
NOTE:
Feature access codes are required for remote observing.
An observer can observe an agent who is not active on a call. The observer is in 
wait state until the agent receives a call, and then the observer is bridged onto the 
call.
To deactivate Service Observing, the observer hangs up, selects another call 
appearance, or presses the disconnect or release button.
Restrictions
Two observers can’t monitor the same extension or the same call simultaneously. 
If user A is observing an extension and user B tries to observe it, B gets a busy 
signal. If 2 extensions are being observed independently and one calls the other, 
only the observer of the calling extension observes the call. The observer of the 
called extension goes into wait state until the call is over.
Phone displays
A local observer’s phone display shows exactly what is displayed on the observed 
phone’s display, followed by the letters “so”.
Trunk calls
If a user makes a trunk-call, observation starts after the user finishes dialing. On 
central office (CO) trunks, dialing is considered complete when answer 
supervision is returned or when answer supervision timeout occurs. 
Service observing cannot be activated over trunks without disconnect supervision. 
Any attempt is denied.