How do I page all extensions?

[pea123]

Greetings.

I seem to be incapable of paging all extensions on 3300 MCD 5.0. All extensions are IP & have their COS paging issues enabled. On the FACs I have set Paging direct which works fine for paging a particular extension.
My question is why is there no Page All on the FACs & what's the work around to Page All extensions?

Thank you.

 

[sarond]

You put all extensions in a Paging Group (Users and Devices/Group Programming/Page Groups) and page via Direct Page FAC and the Group DN.
Although it limited by the available E2T Channels

On most systems, this will be less than the physically
provisioned limit of E2T channels. Paging groups should be
configured with this limit in mind. Limit the number of members
in a page group to:
32 for MXe (base) controllers
64 for AX, LX, expanded MXe, and MXe Server controllers.
Note that in the CX/CXi and AX systems the number of
available echo cancellers might be far below the numbers
shown here, depending on the specific combination of MMCs
installed.

 

[LoopyLou]

You can not page all sets on an MCD unless your system is small enought that all sets can fit in a page group. The only way to page all sets is through a third party app like Benbria's Blazecast. That product still has to work with the limit that you can only page so many sets at once. It gets around that by paging one group immediately after another so it appears like a single page.

I'd tell you a UDP joke but I'm afraid you won't get it. TCP jokes are the best because you always get them.

 

[lowradiation]

Benbria no longer supports paging over mitel phones.

 

[pea123]

Thank you for your responses. Setting up Page Groups & paging each group after the other seems fine for me.

 

[IrwinMFletcher]

Just make sure you follow the guidelines and keep the page groups of IP sets as small as possible. When you make a page to say 20 endpoints, you're asking for 20 E2T ports (actually 21), and it's essentially a race to get them, if there are only 15 available at the time, then 6 random sets won't get the page, and you'll have no indication as a user that everyone didn't hear it.