Avaya License ?

[busydisconnect]

S8700 3.1

We are almost out of station port licenses at one of our locations and we will soon need to add more licenses at the cost of 20k+ but we have another location (a different switch) that has several hundred ports not being used. Is it possible to take the licensed ports not being used from one switch and add it to another or must we purchase more licenses for the switch that is almost out?

Thanks

 

[Mitch672]

AVAYA has forms for doing this, both switchs MUST be owned by the same entity/company. They is also a charge for this, and I think there is a minimum # of licneses to move as well. Yes, it's possible, no it isn't easy, cheap, or free to do. Also both switch need to be on the same version of CM, or there will be another charge as well added.

mitch


AVAYA Certified Specialist

 

[busydisconnect]

I will check with our Avaya BP and see if its even sworth the trouble. In the meantime I will clean up our existing stations and remove any longer needed.

THANKS!

 

[simreal]

I thought Avaya also had an enterprise licensing model that allowed you to move licenses to and from.

We have some sort of arrangement that lets us do this and I didn't think it was a special contract.

 

[nohuhu]

simreal,

avaya does have an enterprise licensing model, that's why it's possible to move licenses. if you're at current release, it's even free. if you're at some lower release, there will be a fee for each license. if it's cm2 and lower, you're out of luck.

 

[4merAvaya]

Don't forget, x-ported stations count toward the RTU. If you have stations that just go to voicemail put them in as 'virtual' stations (beginning in V9). You may also be able to use VDNs pointing to voicemail instead of stations.

Kevin

 

[gblucas]

4merAvaya,

Great tip!!! Virtual stations...I had seen it, but never used it. Are there any caveats to using it?

gblucas

 

[Mitch672]

You can't use it for anything but sending to a coverage path, you can't do a bridge of it, etc. It works fine to send stations to voice mail, etc. you also can't do an "aut-msg wait" indicator with it, since its not a real station.

mitch


AVAYA Certified Specialist

 

[gblucas]

No "aut-msg-wt", then in most cases, it is no good to me. I am sure I am like most of you, my office has more VMs going all over, that never get looked at unless you put a light on their phone. I had one place I worked, that I had to add message notification, by dialing their extension everytime they got a new message in VM during the day, because they didn't want to pay attention to a light. Pathetic...
Mitch672, thanks for the addition info...

gblucas