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Issues with Bridged Call Appearances

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vstarrosie

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Apr 24, 2012
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Recently I've come across some odd issues with bridged call appearances. One Admin. Asst. stated that shortly after adding this bridged appearance of this new hire to her phone, his phone would ring and hers too at the same time, but only briefly. Not long enough to even catch caller id. and when she went to pick up that call, no one was there.
At first, we thought it could have been prank calls....but I tested it from my cell phone and only certain calls would be completed properly to both phones. I was close to replacing her phone thinking it was her...but I had already replaced his. But before replacing hers, I removed those bridged lines from her phone and the issue stopped.
A few days later, I added them back in but on different buttons...and so far...she's had no issues.

Some time has passed and about two weeks ago I was working on a ticket that, at first, didn't turn on any lights....there were a few Admin's for this one person with his line bridged to their phones. One admin's phone was chirping and calls were being missed. Because so many admin's have each other's lines bridged, including this person's line, I told them that it was working as designed because more than likely he was on his first line and a second call was incoming causing the chirp. But just a few days ago it resurfaced. Seems the more these two Admin's talked about the issue....it was sounding more and more like the issue I had originally. So, I moved the bridged line from where it was to two other buttons on this girls sidecar....and so far calls to that line have been pretty good. But today, she stated that the other Admin was out today, this Exec tried to call her on her line...which is bridged to the first Admin's phone...she tried to pick it up and no one was there...it just kind of chirped and nothing.

So, I moved HER bridged line to the two buttons above the other two I moved the other day. I tested a call to this line and this girls phone rang on the bridged line like it was supposed to and she was able to answer it.

So, it's odd that bridged lines are created...but soon after that, calls to those bridged lines don't seem to work properly. But moving those bridged lines seems to let them work as they should. Has anyone every heard of such a thing? and if so, why would that happen?
 
this sounds like a bit of corruption first stage reset sys 4 out of hours , unless you want to trawl through events/errors , then remove and re-add the users if the sys reset4 fails to work

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ACSS (SME)
ACIS (UC)
 
I'll bring this up to our internal support engineers. I remember doing a reset system 4 long ago...can't remember exactly where that's done.
Thank you for your quick response. I really appreciate it....
 
sys reset 4 is done from the sat interface of CM

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ACSS (SME)
ACIS (UC)
 
Hardware platform? Definity/CM software version?

Corruption usually causes inability to change programming.

To find history of last reboots or resets of level 1 - 5:
Command: display init

Your issues sound more like conflict and interactions of bridged appearances with coverage.
Do these phones with brdg-appr buttons have Active Station Ringing: single or continuous?
Are the stations with brdg-appr buttons in a coverage answer group or the coverage path for the principal?

You should use bridged appearances or coverage, but not both.

A great teacher, does not provide answers, but methods to teach others "How and where to find the answers"

bsh

40 years Bell, AT&T, Lucent, Avaya
Tier 3 for 30 years and counting
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Exactly! one girl is in this guys coverage path as well as having him bridged to her phone....but oddly enough, she's not the one with the problem on her phone.
I'm going to look at some of the errors to this girl's extension number. I saw a few things that raise an eyebrow, so I'm going to dig a bit deeper into what those error codes mean.

and not for nothing...it's been a while since I've been on this portal....it's good so see some familiar handles once again!
Thanks again for your quick response!
 
Find documentation for your platform and software version of Definity/CM
Look up bridged call appearance and call coverage features.
Each will have Considerations and Interactions with other features.

A great teacher, does not provide answers, but methods to teach others "How and where to find the answers"

bsh

40 years Bell, AT&T, Lucent, Avaya
Tier 3 for 30 years and counting
[URL unfurl="true"]http://bshtele.com[/url]
 
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