254 CHAPTER 9: CONFIGURING DIAL PLANS, PATTERNS, AND DIAL RULES
Configuring Dial Plans
Dial plans consist of individual or grouped dial rules. Dial rules determine
what sequence of numbers a user is allowed to dial. For example, you can
create a dial plan that includes dial rules that allow a user to dial 4-digit
extensions starting with 1 or 2. If the user dials less than 4 numbers, more
than 4 numbers, or the dial string does not start with a 1 or a 2, the call is
not processed.
When you create a dial plan, the dial plan name is added to the Dial Plan
drop-down menu on the phone profile configuration page (see
Managing Phone Profiles).
Your VCX system includes a set of dial rules and dial plans. You can create
your own dial plans that include system-supplied dial rules. Or, you can
create dial plans that include customized dial rules. However, you must
create the dial rules before you can add them to a dial plan; see Adding
Dial Rules.
Adding Dial Plans To add a dial plan:
1From the Central Manager, select the VCX server on which you want to
add a dial plan (see Accessing a VCX Site through the Central Manager).
The USERS interface is enabled and the Users page appears. This page
lists all the users configured on this server. The menu options for the
USERS interface appear on the left side of the window.
2Verify that the dial rules you want to associate with the new dial plan
have been created.
Click Dial Rules. The Dial Rules page appears listing all the currently
configured dial rules.
■If the dial rules you want to add to the new dial plan are listed, go
to step 3.
■If the dial rules you want to add to the new dial plan are not listed,
see Adding Dial Rules before continuing with the next step.
3Click Dial Plans.
The Dial Plans page appears.
4Click Add Dial Plan.
The Add Dial Plan page appears. See Figure 93.