TANDBERG 1700 MXP manual About Access Code Applications, Defining and Uploading Access Codes

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Access Codes

TANDBERG 1700 MXP USER GUIDE

About Access Code Applications

As an administrator you may set up the system to request codes to be entered before a call can be made. These codes are referred to as Access Codes and can be used to define the types of calls made (internal/external/to an invoicable client etc.).

In this way you may gather call statistics, which in turn can be used for analysis, to bill external clients, or to bill differ- ent groups of users within your company.

Access codes may be made compulsory and restricted in the sense that only a certain set of valid access codes is available.

A valid code must then be entered before a call can be made.

Alternatively, access codes may be made compulsory, but without restriction. You will then still be prompted to key in an access code. No call can be made without access code entered even here, but in this case you may – literally speaking – key in any code you want.

Kindly observe that restricting the access codes to a limited set of valid codes is by no means a prerequisite for billing.

Consider the following: Your system may have been con- figured to work in a setup involving a TMS (TANDBERG Man- agement Suite) system. As default, your system then trans- mits call information to TMS. This information includes any access codes applied to the calls. Hence, the TMS system may always utilize any access code information available, for statistics and for billing.

To make access codes compulsory, set Access Codes to On in the menu. To restrict the valid code space to a cer- tain set of predefined codes, an access code text file must be uploaded to your local video system – see side bars to the right.

If no such file exists in the system and Access Codes still is set to On, the system will prompt you to key in an access code, but any code will do. No call can be made without an access code being keyed in.

To skip the whole thing, set Access Codes to Off. No prompt for code entry will then be produced by the video system.

Defining and Uploading Access Codes

For systems with Access Codes set to On, you – as a user – will be asked to enter a code, otherwise you won’t be able to make a call.

Your video system will check if the entered access code is valid by compar- ing the code with the allowed codes listed in the access.txt file located on the ftp-server in your local video system.

If no access.txt file has been uploaded to the Codec of your local video system, the code entered will be registered, but no validation will take place. E.g. you can enter whatever code you want and still have access to the system. Note, however, that you must enter a code whenever Access Codes has been set to On in the video system.

The access.txt file is a plain text file with one line per access code. As an example of an access.txt file, consider the following:

1234

1250

A1

B2

ABC

Maximum length of each access code is 16 characters, and you can have as many access codes as you want. You may use any combination of the alphanumeric characters available by means of your TANDBERG Remote Control, including the space character.

To upload access codes to the system, follow these steps:

On your PC create the file to be used as a list of valid access codes and save it as access.txt

Make sure your PC and your video system can communicate via IP

Open a DOS-window and go to the folder where the access.txt file is located

Type ftp <IP-address of your local video system>. To locate the IP address of your system, press the OK/Menu key on your TANDBERG Remote Control

When system prompts for User: press Enter or key in the IP-password of your video system

Type bin and press Enter

Go to the user folder, type cd user

Upload the access.txt file, type put access.txt

Exit from ftp, type bye

Access Codes Activated – How It Looks

Whenever the Access Codes feature has been set to On, you will be prompted to enter a code when starting a call.

The following dialogue box appears on the screen:

The remote control keypad will be in ABC mode.

Key in the code and press OK. Then dial your number.

Tip! Access Codes can be set and control- led from TMS as well! If you run a TAND- BERG Management Suite, you will be able to control and maintain access codes from within the Management Suite.

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MAY 2006