Administrator Manual
Publication Information
Contents
Managing Trunks and Spans
Managing Users and Stations
Managing Workgroups
Handling Inbound Calls
System Prompts
Extending Strata CS
Appendix E. Using Performance Counters
Overview of Upgrading and Configuring Strata CS
Welcome to Strata CS
Significant Strata CS features
What’s New in Strata CS
New features in Toshiba Strata CS 4.0 include the following
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What’s automatically upgraded
Miscellaneous new features
Changes in Strata CS from version 2.1 to 3.0 or later
Before you begin
More information
Changes in Strata CS 3.0 or later
Configuring Strata CS for the first time
Strata CS documentation
Where to get help
Strata CS includes the following documentation
Document Printed Online Book
Your Strata CS provider
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Strata CS Administrator
Linking computers and phones
About the Strata CS Administrator
Logging on to the Administrator
Administrator interface
Users
Dialing Services
Workgroups
Trunks
Working in views
Maintenance
IVR Plug-Ins
IP Gateways
Using the Administrator toolbar
Using commands in a view
New Workgroup Create a new workgroup
Create a new auto attendant
Creating items
Performing basic actions in the Administrator
To create a new item that is based on an existing item
Renaming items
Deleting items
Copying and pasting items
Customizing columns
Working with voice files
Using the audio controls
Changing the voice file format
Changing audio output
Importing and exporting voice files
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Strata CS Licenses
Entering licenses
About Strata CS licenses
To enter your Strata CS Server license
To enter all other license types
Removing licenses
To remove the Server license
To remove all licenses
Verify that you have removed all other licenses
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Defining System Settings
Customizable settings
About system settings
Emergency. Use to configure emergency dialing options
Server Configuration
Changing Windows NT/2000 registry settings
General tab
Rerecording voice prompts
Windows Event Log notifications
No events. This is the default. No notifications are sent
Select one of the following from the drop-down list
Business Hours
Defining business hours and holidays
To define business hours and holidays
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Logging internal calls
Call Log tab
Archiving the Call Log
To log internal calls as well as external calls
To archive Call Log information
Disk usage
Storage tab
Moving voice files
Allocating disk space
Dialing tab
Defining special access codes
To move voice message files
Setting dialing timeouts
Using extended 911 service with Strata CS
Using standard 911 service with Strata CS
Emergency tab
To set emergency dialing options
How emergency numbers are handled
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Other tab
Setting dial-by-name directory options
Presenting a confirmation menu before voice mail
Setting up Microsoft Exchange synchronization
Exchange Server Mailbox Permissions
To set up Microsoft Exchange synchronization for a user
Setting the minimum password length
Managing Trunks and Spans
Trunk types
About trunks
Naming trunks
Adding trunks
Monitoring trunks
Deleting trunks
Matching trunk settings with your phone company
Configuring trunks
Inbound and outbound calls and hunt groups
Routing inbound calls on a trunk
ANI/DID digit collection
Placing outbound calls on a specific trunk
Collecting ANI/DID digits
Using did with Robbed Bit T1 lines
Setting up fax routing
Using did with analog lines
Customizing fax routing
Trunks view
About digital and Internet spans
Adding an analog trunk
Setting up digit collection on an analog trunk
Trunks view, select the trunk
To collect digits on an analog trunk
Adding a digital Robbed Bit T1 span
Configuring signaling using the Robbed Bit T1 Experimenter
Adding the Robbed Bit T1 span in the Trunks view
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Using a signaling template
To enter trunk defaults for a span
Entering trunk defaults for a span
Adding a digital Isdn or CAS span
Adding a digital Isdn BRI span
To set your Isdn parameters
Optimizing your Isdn settings
Enabling Isdn Megacom support
Adding an Internet span
Modifying Strata CS IP codecs
To modify Strata CS IP codecs
GSM .0 kbs
To change an IPLink board parameter
Fine-tuning your IP connection
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Managing Users and Stations
Extension
Users view
Station
Mail Usage
Title
Greeting Usage
Disk Usage
Configuring a system without an Operator
Admin and Operator users
About users and roles
Users
Understanding personal Operators
Setting up workgroups for the Operator
How callers are transferred to Operators
Changing the Operator’s extension from
Where to set user options
Setting user options
Roles
Described in detail in this chapter
Adding a user at the telephone
About adding a user
Adding a user in the User dialog box
Identifying the user
Adding a user by using a template
Assigning an extension
Assigning a station ID
Linking users and phones
Assigning a did number
Setting up a personal operator
Creating a password
Editing a user’s Client settings
Choosing a language for telephone prompts
Allocating space for voice messages
Recordings tab
Allocating space for recorded greetings and voice titles
To enable synchronization
Setting up call recording
Enabling Microsoft Exchange Server synchronization
Notifications tab
Setting pager notification
Setting e-mail notification
Scheduling notifications
Defining a schedule for e-mail and pager notification
To add a schedule entry
To set up a custom time rule
Setting up custom time rules
Click OK to add the custom date
Call Handling tab
To turn on call forwarding
Setting up call forwarding
Issues with forwarded calls on
Call forwarding and voice mail
Mobile phone issues with forwarded calls
Forwarding calls over Centrex/PBX trunks
Listing a user in the dial-by-name directory
Phone tab
Activating features for Class phones
Padding extensions sent as caller ID on internal calls
Setting the number of seconds to ring the phone
Sending Dtmf digits to stations
Activating features on Toshiba digital phone
Hands free answering
Secondary Directory Number parameters
Dialing tab
To set dialing permissions
Global dialing permissions
Setting account code modes
Other settings
Permissions tab
Individual permissions and roles
By default, Strata CS creates the following two roles
To create a new role
New Role
Other tab
Other tab contains user options for hands-free mode
Recording the new user’s voice title and greeting
Managing users
Helping new users get started
After you create a new user, do the following
Moving a user
Updating users’ mail, greeting, and disk usage totals
Deleting a user
Adding a station
Managing stations
Supported phones
Supporting different types of Class phones
Viewing station activity
Visual message waiting indicator information
Managing Workgroups
About Workgroups
Creating a Workgroup
Using the General tab
Workgroups view
Using the Dialing tab
Adding a voice title
Assigning a did number to a workgroup
Transferring unanswered calls
Listing workgroups in the dial-by-name directory
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Managing Outbound Calls
Dialing service types
About dialing services
See Adding an Internet-to-Phone Number service on
Using routing services to manage other dialing services
Default dialing service
Dialing Services view
How you can use dialing services
Hiding dialing services in the Client
Deleting or disabling a dialing service
Tips on access codes and names for services
Access codes
Using dialing services to install and troubleshoot trunks
Disabling dialing services while creating them
Updating phone numbers after changing an access code
How Strata CS uses access codes
Avoiding dialing ambiguities
Creating a dialing service with access code
Setting default access codes for ringbacks
Where the default access codes appear
Adding a Phone Number dialing service
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Adding a Centrex/PBX Extension service
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Adding an Internet Address service
Adding an Internet-to-Phone Number service
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Adding an Internet-to-Centrex/PBX Extension service
Trunks tab
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Location Settings tab
Codecs tab
Dialing Exceptions tab
To change the codecs used by a dialing service
Click the Codecs tab
Do not need to specify dialing exceptions
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To import dialing exceptions
Exporting and importing dialing exceptions
Permissions tab
To set dialing service permissions
An example of how to set dialing service permissions
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Following numbers are allowed
Routing services
How you can use routing services
An example of routing rules
Processing phone numbers received from the Client
Applying permissions in routing services
Adding a routing service
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Routing Rules tab
Use this rule under the following conditions
Add a new routing rule
Execute the following action
Adding new routing variables
Defining patterns to match the dialed digits
Click Variables on the Routing Rules tab see
To add a routing variable
Click Add. The Routing Variable dialog box opens
Characters Digits placed in the new number
Defining a new number for a routing rule
1NxxNxxxxxx 16173540600 Nxx5-11 567891011
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Handling Inbound Calls
Route calls to an automatic call distribution ACD workgroup
About call routing
Handling Inbound Calls
About auto attendants
Using auto attendants
What callers hear
Default Auto Attendant
Description
Auto Attendants view
Creating a new auto attendant
Setting up an auto attendant
Description. Information that describes the auto attendant
Defining menu choices
Transfer to user
User login
Send to voice mail
Play message
Key
To add or modify a menu choice
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Click the Advanced tab
Menu choice Variable Name Variable Value
These fields as follows
Scheduling transfers and greetings
Action Action that will be performed
To schedule transfers or greetings
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To set up hold music for an auto attendant
Setting up hold music
Deleting auto attendants
Auto Attendant dialog box, click the Hold tab
Analog trunk
Routing calls directly to a user
Robbed Bit T1
Span Internet span
Routing calls to workgroups
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Using Account Codes
About account codes
Setting general account code options
Setting up account codes
Setting a user’s account code modes
To set a user’s account code modes
Creating a text file of valid account codes
Formatting the text file
Using wild card characters
Setting general account code options on
Using a verbal account code prompt
How users enter account codes
To use the verbal account code prompt instead of the beep
Generating account code reports
Viewing account codes in the Call Log
Indicating the end of an account code
Monitoring & Backing UP
About monitoring and backing up your Strata CS system
Monitoring station activity
Using the Device Monitor
Logged Name of the user currently logged in at the station
Monitoring trunk activity
Status
Enabling and disabling trunks
Out
To restart a station or trunk
Restarting stations or trunks
Do one of the following
Starting a new Server log
Using the Call Log
Answered By
From
From Number
To Number
Supervised transfer. a supervised transfer
Result
Message
From Device
Displaying a specific number of Call Log entries
Exporting the Call Log
Monitoring database and disk usage
Backing up Strata CS
To perform an offline backup of the Strata CS database
To perform an online backup of the Strata CS database
To perform an offline backup of the Strata CS voice files
Restoring Strata CS data
To restore the Strata CS database from an offline backup
To restore the Strata CS database from an online backup
To restore voice files from an offline backup
Moving a Strata CS Server to another machine
Shutting down the Strata CS Server
Viewing the Windows Event Log
Strata CS-related Windows Event Log messages
Error No Voice Resource Available
Error Dssql Error
Device # Restarted
Inbound call detected on outbound trunk #
Informational Started Strata CS Mail Server
Error Strata CS Server Restarted
No loop current detected on outbound trunk n
Error
Error Failed to Stop Device Handle ##
Error Unable to open device ##
Error Unable to delete temporary message file for device ##
Error Unable to start IVR Plugin License count exceeded
T1 alarms
Error Insufficient licenses ##
Reporting problems
Using the Maintenance Log view
Problem report package
To e-mail a problem report package
Using the Problem Report Wizard
Reporting a problem with a specific call or voice message
Reporting Strata CS Server problems
To report a Strata CS Server problem
Reporting distributed problems
Reporting workstation application problems
To report a workstation application problem
To report a distributed problem
Call record from the Call Log on the Server
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System Prompts
System Prompts view
About system prompts
File name
Text
Controlling the prompt display
Managing system prompts
Playing system prompts
Comment
Importing system prompt text
Exporting system prompt text
Exporting and importing system prompt audio files
Changing the encoding format of system prompts
Recording options
Recording system prompts
About the sentence file
About the .VAP and .VOX files
Recording process
Recording system prompts professionally
Selecting a voice
American English .VAP and .VOX files are located
Testing the recorded prompts
Using the standard Strata CS voices
Providing a script for the vendor
Recording over system prompts yourself
Default location is
Deploying the new prompts
Recording over .VOX files
Recording over the .VAP file
Testing the new prompts
To record over a prompt
System Prompts view, double-click the prompt name
To use the Sentence Tester
Testing system prompts
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Localizing the telephone commands
Configuring Internet Telephony Support
Placing calls to H.323 terminals such as NetMeeting
About IP telephony and Strata CS
Internet telephony requirements
Placing calls to Net Meeting from a Strata CS phone
Placing calls to Net Meeting from the Strata CS Client
IP address
Calling Strata CS from H.323 terminals such as Net Meeting
Calling a Strata CS did number from Net Meeting
Calling a Strata CS Server from Net Meeting
Start NetMeeting
Enhancing a Web page with a Call Us! button
Using Windows 2000 Phone Dialer as an H.323 terminal
Placing calls involving a remote Strata CS Server
Connecting two Servers using IP Gateways
Overview of creating an IP Gateway connection
Using the IP Gateway Configuration Worksheet
Receiving Internet calls from a remote Strata CS Server
Codec use with IP Gateway connections
Creating an IP Gateway
Illustration of an IP Gateway
IP Gateways view
Creating an IP Gateway
Password
Remote Address
Remote
Add Comments to further identify the IP Gateway
To set up an IP Gateway
Calling Strata CS extensions on the remote Server
Creating IP Gateway dialing services
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Placing phone calls through the remote Server
Immediately connecting to dial tone on the remote Server
Placing Centrex/PBX calls through the remote Server
Creating Gateway users to unify two Strata CS Servers
When you configure two Servers in this way, users can
Overview of IP Gateway users
Dial any user’s extension directly, without an access code
Before creating IP Gateway users
To create an IP Gateway user
Using Contact PINs with IP Gateway users
Fine-tuning your IP connection
Extending Strata CS
About extending Strata CS
Extending Strata CS with off-the-shelf applications
In-band signaling applications
Tapi applications
Extending Strata CS with third-party devices
Sending call type and extension number to a device
Type of call Dtmf digits sent
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Strata CS SDK
To install the Strata CS SDK
Installing the Strata CS SDK
Follow the instructions in the Strata CS SDK Setup window
Strata CS SDK Application Programming Interfaces
Developing IVR Plug-ins with a telephony toolkit
IVR Plug-in sample programs
IVR Plug-in licensing
Device Status API
Device Status sample program
Client API
Strata CS Configuration Settings
Strata CS Server registry settings
About Strata CS configuration settings
\Server\Settings\
EmptySentItemsFolder
Default path is empty string
Mail
Default is 0 no time-out
NumLogs
Default is 10000 bytes
TruncateRecordings
Strata CS Workstation applications registry settings
String value specifying the user’s extension Default is
Current User Settings
String value specifying the user’s station ID Default is
\Client\Client\App
Local Machine Settings
\Client\TSP\Logon
Locale definitions
Strata CS Server language locale settings
Strata CS currently uses the following locale codes
English
Defining custom tones
Example Defining a disconnect detection tone
Disabling Dialogic devices
Create a string value under Settings named DisableDevices
To disable Dialogic devices in the Windows NT/2000 registry
To connect a fractional T1 or E1 line to Strata CS
Create the following key if it does not already exist
Dialogic voice board device names
Dialogic device names
Save the changes to the registry
Board Board ID Channel
Dialogic Internet telephony board device names
Dialogic modular station interface MSI device names
VoiceBoard settings
Dialogic voice board settings
Make interval for valid loop pulse detection
Off-hook Delay. Period after off-hook, during
Minimum DTI Off. Minimum time required
Between ring-received events
VoiceBoard channel settings
Dxchdtinitset
Dword value for Dtmf detection edge select Default is
Dxchmfmode
\Server\DTIBoardn\GlobalCall
E1 and T1 board settings
\Server\BRIBoardn\ISDN
Isdn Megacom service settings
Default is 1 Mdmf format
MSI station board settings
Default is 20 1000 milliseconds
Default is 6 300 milliseconds
To use TVSettings
Using the Strata CS Settings program
Logging
Viewing current values
Changing key values
Modifying other supported Strata CS settings
Default value is 30 seconds
Database\ConnectionTimeout
Default value is
Server\AllowGatewayUserLogin
Default value is 60000 milliseconds
Default value is 180000 milliseconds
Default value is 6000 milliseconds
Default value is 12000 milliseconds
Default value is 1800 milliseconds
System\MinClientBuild
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Starting Strata CS from the command line
Command Line Options
Password=password
IP Gateway Configuration Worksheet
To Server
IP Gateway Configuration Worksheet
Name Type From Server Access To Server IP Gateway
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Using Quicknet and E-TEL with Strata CS
Using Quicknet with Internet Switchboard
Using Quicknet hardware with Strata CS
Setting up Quicknet to dial Strata CS
Appendix D. Using Quicknet and E-TEL with Strata CS
Using a Preferred address to dial extensions directly
To make a Gateway preferred
Setting up the Strata CS IP address as a Hot Line
Setting up Quicknet to connect to Strata CS
Creating the Gateway
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Transferring and handling calls with a Quicknet phone
Eliminating access code conflicts
Forwarding your calls to a Quicknet phone
Calling a Quicknet card from Strata CS
Important note about Quicknet Hot Lines
See , Configuring Internet Telephony Support in Strata CS
Using the Strata CS Client with a Quicknet card
For More Information
Contacting Quicknet
Setting up a FreeRide phone to connect to Strata CS
Using an E-tel FreeRide IP phone with Strata CS
Click Settings and Support
My Phone Number, enter your Strata CS extension
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Transferring and handling calls with a FreeRide phone
Tel contact information
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Using Performance Counters
Viewing performance counters in Windows NT/2000
Strata CS performance counters
Appendix E. Using Performance Counters
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Glossary
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ActiveX Control Also called control
Application Programming Interface API Also called API
Analog Trunk Also called analog line
Automatic Number Identification ANI Also called ANI
Call Announcing Also called call screening, screening a call
Business Communications Platform BCP Also called BCP
Call Center Agent Also called agent
Call Pursuit Also called follow me service
Call Control Also called call handling
Call Detail Recording CDR Also called call accounting, CDR
Central Office CO Also called CO
Call Routing Also called routing a call
Channel Service Unit CSU Also called CSU
Channel Associated Signaling CAS Also called CAS
Computer Telephone Integration CTI Also called CTI
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier Clec Also called Clec
Computer Telephony CT Also called CT
See also T-1 p. G-24
Dialed Number Identification Service Dnis Also called Dnis
Dialogic SCBus Device Also called SCBus
Digital Signal Processor Also called DSP
Digital Trunk Also called digital line
Dual Tone Multi-Frequency Dtmf Also called Dtmf
Direct Inward Dial did Also called did
Fax-On-Demand Also called fax-back
Grab-and-Hold Greeting Also called hold greeting
Hold Audio Also called hold music
Graphical User Interface Also called GUI
Recognition ASR, IVR, speech recognition
Integrated Services Digital Network Isdn Also called Isdn
Internet Protocol Also called IP
Phony, Voice Over IP
Internet Service Provider Also called ISP, service provider
Local Exchange Carrier Also called ILEC, LEC
Modular Station Interface Also called MSI
Microsoft Windows NT Server Also called NT Server
Network Interface Card Also called NIC
Multi-Frequency Also called MF
Parking a Call Also called call park
Plain Old Telephone Service Also called Pots
Personal Information Number Also called contact PIN, PIN
Primary Rate Interface Also called PRI
Public Switched Telephone Network Also called Pstn
Private Branch Exchange Also called PABX, PBX
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks Also called RAID
Remote Access Server Also called RAS
Regional Bell Operating Company Also called Rboc
Remote Office/Branch Office Also called Robo
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Small Office/Home Office Also called Soho
Tapi Service Provider Also called TSP
Telephony Application Programming Interface Also called Tapi
Unified Messaging Also called integrated messaging
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Index
To an auto attendant, 9-2to an IVR Plug-in,9-2
Types supported
For caller ID
Disabling
Digital spans
Folders, working with Follow me call forwarding, ??-6-27
Internet-to-Phone Number dialing service, adding
Indicator, visual message waiting Integrating
Using command line arguments, C-1
IP Gateways view, 2-5IP network Codecs for
Adding
Customizing trunk disconnect tones, A-12permissions
Permissions, dialing services
Dialing timeouts, 4-12disk space
Audio outpub over your computer speakers, 2-11audio output
Shortcut menu
Station ID
Spanish language prompts, 4-4spans, digital
Did
Disconnect tones, customizing, A-12
Moving, 6-42Operator
Converting, 12-3,12-4