Nortel Networks DMS/MSL-100 manual Business Group, Switch Password, Service ID, Application ID

April 2004 Configuring the switch

Business Group

!uniquely identifies a Meridian Business Group (MBG) customer within a public network

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is assigned by the telephone company, distributor, or end-user

is keyed to the BGID field of the SCAIGRP table

must be a number between 1–4194304

Note: An MBG customer is a telephone company customer who uses public facilities to carry customer-specific information. This parameter uniquely identifies a given telephone company MBG customer across a number of switches in a given network, and not only within a given switch. As a result, any host applications that establish application-level sessions with multiple switches only need to be datafilled with one business group ID per network rather than per switch.

Switch Password

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is a security feature that, along with a valid user ID, enables a user to log on to the switch. The customer assigns passwords.

maintains a one-to-one relationship with the business group ID. All Service IDs of a customer are under the same password.

is keyed to the PASSWORD field of the SCAIGRP table

must be between 1–8 characters in length

Service ID

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uniquely identifies a service profile for a session. An operating company can define functions and parameters in service profiles on the switch. The operating company can assign a customer up to eight service IDs.

is assigned by the telephone company

is referenced to the PROFKEY field of the DMS SCAIPROF table

must be a number between 0–255

Application ID

!uniquely identifies Symposium Call Center Server in a customer’s network—in other words, within the set of public and private switches with which a customer’s host application can establish a session

Symposium and DMS/MSL-100 Switch Guide 85