Cisco Systems 5.x manual Locations and External Subscribers, Networking in Cisco Unity

Chapter 1 Networking in Cisco Unity

Locations and External Subscribers

•A Combination—The various ways of sending and receiving messages, as detailed in Table 1-1, are not mutually exclusive. For example, if the Cisco Unity servers in your organization are set up to access a global directory (and thus can make use of the Digital Networking option), you can still add Internet subscriber accounts for contractors working at home. In addition, if you are migrating users from an existing voice messaging system to Cisco Unity in stages, you can add AMIS, Bridge, or VPIM connectivity to the mix. Figure 1-1depicts a configuration that uses a mix of the various networking options.

Figure 1-1 Networking in Cisco Unity

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Regardless of which networking option you choose, the setup process is similar.

For each networking option, you customize the settings for the primary location. Each Cisco Unity server has a default or primary location, which is created during installation and which cannot be deleted. The primary location contains information that identifies the Cisco Unity server to other messaging systems, which may or may not be Cisco Unity systems. See the “Overview: Primary Location Settings” section on page 9-1for more information.

To set up AMIS, Bridge, or VPIM Networking, you create delivery locations. A delivery location contains the network information that Cisco Unity needs to send messages to other messaging servers, which may or may not be Cisco Unity servers. You create a delivery location for each voice messaging server with which the local Cisco Unity server will communicate.

Note Trusted Internet Locations are a special type of delivery location. They do not contain information about other messaging servers, but rather serve as a delivery location for Trusted Internet subscribers that are trusted with decrypted secure messages. Based on the configuration settings of the Trusted Internet

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