Chapter 1 Planning for Personal Assistant

Intercepting Calls with Personal Assistant

Defining Partitions and Call Search Spaces for Personal Assistant, page 1-18

Using Partitions and Calling Search Spaces Without Personal Assistant

To illustrate partitions and calling search spaces, consider this example in which partitions and calling search spaces are used without Personal Assistant:

The following partitions were created to support lobby phones, employee phones, and calls destined for the PSTN.

Partition Name

Designated Devices Assigned to Partition

 

 

Lobby

All lobby phones

 

 

Employee

All employee IP phones

 

 

PSTN

All externally destined route patterns (local PSTN)

 

 

The following calling search spaces were created and the partitions were assigned to them to provide different services. For example, to disallow external calls from the lobby phones, the cssLobby calling search space does not include the PSTN partition.

Calling Search Space

Partitions

Assigned To

 

 

 

cssLobby

Employee

Devices (such as lobby IP phones) that can dial only internal

 

Lobby

numbers.

 

 

 

 

 

cssEmp

Lobby

Devices (such as employee IP phones) that can dial both

 

Employee

internal and external numbers.

 

 

 

PSTN

 

 

 

 

cssGW

Lobby

PSTN voice gateway used for outside callers to access lobby

 

Employee

and employee phones.

 

 

 

 

 

The following partitions and calling search spaces were assigned to individual extensions.

Cisco CallManager Setting

User 1001

User 1002

User 3000

User 5555

 

 

 

 

 

Phone extension

1001

1002

3000

5555

 

 

 

 

 

Partition

Employee

Employee

Lobby

PSTN

 

 

 

 

 

Calling search space

cssEmp

cssEmp

cssLobby

cssGW

 

 

 

 

 

When User 3000 dials User 1001, Cisco CallManager looks in the calling search space of User 3000, cssLobby. Because cssLobby includes the Employee partition in which the extension of User 1001 exists, the call goes through successfully.

However, if User 3000 dials User 5555, the call cannot be completed, because the cssLobby calling search space does not include the PSTN partition in which the extension of User 5555 exists. Effectively, this means that people using the lobby phone cannot make outside calls.

Cisco Personal Assistant 1.4 Installation and Administration Guide

 

OL-4590-03

1-17

 

 

 

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Cisco Systems 1.4 manual Partition Name Designated Devices Assigned to Partition, Partitions Assigned To, User

1.4 specifications

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