Chapter 1 Introduction to Broadcast Server
Broadcast Server Overview
Users
Broadcast Server has one administrative user (Administrator) with full access to all Broadcast Server controls. The Broadcast Server Administrator can create accounts for other users who will compose and send alerts in Broadcast Server. Users log in to the Broadcast Server through Microsoft Internet Explorer from anywhere in the organization or securely over the Internet.
Note The documents that you can download from the Application Gateway includes a document, Sending Alerts to Nortel Internet Telephones from a PC, that you can change as needed and distribute to Broadcast Server users. The document explains how to perform the options available by default to Broadcast Server users.
When you create a user account, you specify the options available to the user. By default, a user can create, change, and delete alerts. You can restrict a user from creating or changing alerts. A user account can be further customized as described in “General user permissions,” page 20.
Subscribers and Distribution Lists
Subscribers (IP telephones) are added to Broadcast Server automatically. You configure the Application Gateway to add subscribers to Broadcast Server when IP telephones come online.
A particular list of subscribers is a distribution list. Distribution lists enable you to group subscribers and other distribution lists as recipients for alerts. When composing an alert, a user selects the distribution list(s) to receive the alert. By default, a user cannot add individual subscribers to a distribution list. The Application Gateway supports 256 lists.
You can configure the Application Gateway to automatically create distribution lists from the department information (“Department” field) obtained from your LDAP or CSV directory sources. Broadcast Server truncates department names longer than 50 characters.
When an IP telephone comes online, the Application Gateway adds entries to the distribution list, using the phone extension (and dialing rules) to locate the associated department name in the directories. For information
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