Chapter 1 Planning for Personal Assistant

Understanding the Personal Assistant Server and Speech-Recognition Server

For specific items, such as user names in the corporate directory, the grammar is generated and automatically compiled during the system refresh (see the “Configuring Speech Recognition” section on page 4-4). As new users are added to the directory, their names are automatically recognized after the refresh.

Personal Assistant Server

The Personal Assistant server manages the interaction between the user and Personal Assistant, processes call routing and dial rules, and manages the overall configuration of the Personal Assistant system.

You must install the Personal Assistant server during installation, and you manage its functions and processes from the administrator web-based interface (see the “Logging On to and Out of the Personal Assistant Administration Interface” section on page 4-3for information about accessing the interface).

You can have more than one Personal Assistant server configured. In fact, you should do this if you want to provide failover protection (see the “Creating Server Clusters” section on page 1-10for details).

License and Resource Managers

The license and resource managers are subcomponents of the Personal Assistant server; they are installed with it. However, they actually work in conjunction with the speech-recognition and Personal Assistant servers. Although the license manager and resource managers provide different services, they are closely linked, in that every system that functions as a license manager also functions as a resource manager.

License Manager

The license manager maintains the license for the speech-recognition software. The speech-recognition servers work only if there is at least one active license manager with a valid license. Although every Personal Assistant server includes a license manager, not every Personal Assistant server needs an active license manager.

You only need one license manager within a single Personal Assistant server cluster, although Cisco recommends that you define two license managers for redundancy.

Resource Manager

The resource manager manages the interaction between the Personal Assistant server cluster and the speech-recognition servers in the speech-recognition server cluster. Although every Personal Assistant server includes a resource manager, only one resource manager is used as the active connection between the Personal Assistant server cluster and the speech-recognition server cluster. Personal Assistant automatically chooses the resource manager to be used, and if that manager becomes disabled, another resource manager takes over.

Once a resource manager establishes a connection between a Personal Assistant server and an available speech-recognition server for a particular call, the Personal Assistant server and speech-recognition server interact directly for the duration of that call. The resource manager is not a permanent communication link between the servers.

The resource manager does not manage communication between Personal Assistant servers;

Personal Assistant servers communicate directly.

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1.4 specifications

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