Cisco Systems 5.x manual O S S a R Y, GL-1

G L O S S A R Y

A

Active Directory The Microsoft Windows directory service that stores information about objects on the network. Active Directory consists of a forest, domains, organizational units, containers, and objects. Different classes of objects can be represented in Active Directory including users, contacts, groups, computers and printers. The Active Directory schema can be extended to add attributes to existing object classes and to create new object classes.

administrative calls Calls made by a node in an Octel analog network to populate its NameNet directory with the name, voice name, and extension of a subscriber on another node. Because the Cisco Unity Bridge can represent one or more nodes in the network, it places administrative calls to populate its NameNet directory. You can configure a schedule per Octel node on the Bridge server to control when it makes administrative calls to the node.

AMIS

AMIS Networking

AMIS subscriber

Audio Messaging Interchange Specification. An industry-standard protocol supported by Cisco Unity that provides an analog mechanism for transferring voice messages between different voice messaging systems.

A Cisco Unity networking option. Allows messaging between Cisco Unity and other voice messaging systems that support the Audio Messaging Interchange Specification analog (AMIS-a) protocol. Cisco Unity and the other voice messaging systems maintain separate voice mail directories with no directory synchronization.

A representation in Cisco Unity of subscribers on an AMIS-compliant, remote messaging system. AMIS subscribers are created in Cisco Unity to enable Cisco Unity subscribers to find them in the directory and to send messages to them as they would to any other subscriber. AMIS subscribers are associated with a delivery location and are stored as contacts in Active Directory. Mailbox greetings and voice names can be individually recorded for each subscriber. Messages that are sent to an AMIS subscriber are sent via a Cisco Unity server that is designated as the AMIS bridgehead server to the applicable mailbox on the remote messaging system. AMIS subscribers do not have messages stored locally. Their messages are stored on the remote messaging system.

B

blind addressing One of the methods that Cisco Unity provides for addressing messages to remote messaging system users. Blind addressing allows addressing of messages without having the recipient mailbox number, text name, or recorded name in the directory.

	Networking Guide for Cisco Unity Release 5.x (With Microsoft Exchange)
OL-13844-01		GL-1