Enterasys Networks CSX6000 manual Bandwidth Reservation, Call Restrictions Background Information

USER’S GUIDE

CALL RESTRICTIONS BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The Call Restriction feature provides the ability to place limits on the toll costs of operating the CyberSWITCH. Call Restriction consists of a variety of features that can restrict the number of switched calls made to remote sites, and also limit the amount of call minutes accumulated for remote site access.

Notes: It is important to note that the Call Restriction feature only applies to outbound calls from the system.

When a condition occurs that triggers a warning to be written to the log, the message will be written only once for the duration of the condition.

For example, if the network’s total amount of connect time is estimated to be less than three hours per day, call restrictions could be set up to place a limit on the number of call minutes per day to

240.(Three hours would be 180 minutes; however, there may be some unusual days that go over a little, hence, 240 minutes.) If a newly installed application starts sending out packets on the LAN that causes remote connections to be made all the time, the system will terminate the call, and prevent any more calls from being made after 4 hours (240 minutes) of connect time to the remote site. Thus, the phone bill would be limited to just four hours of connection time. If desired, the system can be configured to issue a warning when the limit is exceeded instead of stopping the calls.

BANDWIDTH RESERVATION

The bandwidth reservation feature allows a portion of possible CyberSWITCH connections to always be available to specific devices for both inbound and outbound calls.

CONFIGURING BANDWIDTH RESERVATION

To implement this feature, you need to configure specific device profiles, reference them in the device list, and then enable the bandwidth reservation feature. These three steps are described in detail in this section.

USING CFGEDIT

To configure a specific device profile:

1.Select Options from the main menu.

2.Select Call Control Options from the options menu.

3.Select Device Profiles from the Call Control Options Menu. The following screen is then displayed, showing the default device profile:

Current Device Profiles:
id Profile NAME		LINES (SLOT,PORT)
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1	Default_Profile	(1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4)
(1)	Add, (2) Change, (3)	Delete a Profile or press <RET> for previous menu:

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