Corporate Directory question

[hollandho]

Hello All: We are in the process of upgrading our CS 1000 to Avaya Succession 7 in a few weeks and have been told that OTM will not work under this. Does anyone have a solution to keep the Corporate Directory on the phones functioning whether it be a new package or god forbid a manual method. I hear that command line will be used again to create and change the phones and I am ok with that. Just the Corp Dir is our concern.

Thanks in advance

 

[bignose21]

Don't know if it will work in that RLS but this was an old method some where in the forum but couldn't find luckly had a local copy:

Print off & capture the CPND name block such as..


LD 95
REQ PRT
TYPE NAME
CUST 0
CPND_LANG
PAGE
DIG
DN ALL
SHRT YES

5200 Welfare Room
5201 Rest Room
5202 Delivery & Collections
5208 Donald Duck I2050
5209 Micky Mouse I2050 Phone
5230 Tom's MODEM
5234 Jerry's I2050 Phone
5235 Roger Rabbit's I2050 phone
5236 Mini Mouse's MODEM
5237 Bugs Bunny I2004 Phone

Save the file as a standard Text format i.e. names.txt. Edit the file to leave it with just the DN & Name.
Using "Notepads" find & replace, it's easy to get it to find 5 spaces & replace it with 4 spaces & a ",".
The messy bit is to put in a comma "," between the first & second name & to remove any part of a name
that's not required. This will take you a while to complete.

Once you have done this it should look something like this..

5200 , Welfare, Room
5201 , Rest, Room
5202 , Delivery , Collections
5208 , Donald, Duck
5209 , Micky, Mouse
5230 , Tom's, Modem
5234 , Jerry's, I2050 Phone
5235 , Roger, Rabbit
5236 , Mini, Mouse
5237 , Bugs, Bunny


Save this file as a "CPDIR0.CSV". The idea being that this file will eventually be uploaded
into the Nortel switch. Before we do this we will need to open the file by using Excel.
The layout of the columns have to be changed as follows..


Last Name , First Name , DN , ORG (Which means...)

Room,Welfare,5200,ORG
Room,Rest,5201,ORG
Collections,Delivery,5202,ORG
Duck,Donald,5208,ORG
Mouse,Micky,5209,ORG
Modem,Tom's,5230,ORG
I2050 Phone,Jerry's,5234,ORG
Rabbit,Roger,5235,ORG
Mouse,Mini,5236,ORG
Bunny,Bugs,5237,ORG

Before saving this file, highlight all of the columns & select the “sort” option. Click on column “A”, so that the Name data is arranged in alphabetical order. Also try & remove any spaces before & after the ",“ . The result should be something like this..

Bunny,Bugs,5237,ORG
Collections,Delivery,5202,ORG
Duck,Donald,5208,ORG
I2050Phone,Jerry's,5234,ORG
Modem,Tom's,5230,ORG
Mouse,Micky,5209,ORG
Mouse,Mini,5236,ORG
Rabbit,Roger,5235,ORG
Room,Welfare,5200,ORG
Room,Rest,5201,ORG





Finally save the amended cpdir0.csv file & upload it into the system.
FTP the file to /u/db
After it's been uploaded, Check that it works by using the Corporate Directory function.
If it doesn't, then use the "pdt" symload & INIT_CORP_DIR. Or UPDATE_CORP_DIR for Version 4.5.

e.g.

pdt> symload
Loading symbols from "c:/p/sl1/res.sym"
pdt> INIT_CORP_DIR
value = 1 = 0x1
pdt>
Total number of files 1
0 c:/u/db/CPDIR0.CSV
Reading the corporate directory file for customer: 0
538 entries read for customer 0.

pdt>

This worked ok at RLS 5.0 but that was last time I tried

 

[yyrkroon]

Corp Dir is built in on rel 7...you can use corp directory by deploying Subscriber Manager, then generate your list as normal...1 little gotcha...currently, there's a bug in the software, the list is not in alpha order.

 

[Dphone]

Any idea when the patch to fixed this bug will be out? This is a real pain.

 

[yyrkroon]

Last update on the patch was on 2/2 - problem has been escalated to design, but listed as low priority.