Manually blocking caller ID

[dpaige10460]

How can I block outgoing caller ID so nothing is listed? Is there something I can do in call manager are is it a feature set I need added to my PRIs?

 

[pndscm]

Do you want to block it for all phones or just a select few??

 

[dpaige10460]

I'm looking to set it for a hand full of users. Our Internal Audits office want's their identity secure when we go to VoIP. So their internal call IDs and external Caller IDs need to be blank. Its can't show a default building number. It need no entry at all. We are also looking to allow some type of *XX type of feature to allow user to unblock their outgoing caller ID.

 

[pndscm]

Build a CallID_Block_PT and place it in the Internal Audits phones CSS. Remove the Partitions that the 'normal' Route Pattern's are in. Then place your RP's for these phones in the CallID_Block_PT partition. Inside the RP, you should be able to manipulate Calling Party Number Mask assuming that you aren't doing any masking in the Gateways.
Then to unblock the CallerID, create a Translation pattern with a Pattern of *XX.! and place it in the CallerID_Block_PT. Inside the Translation Pattern, strip off PreDot and apply the 'normal' CSS. This should allow the IA phones to send normal CallerID by going out the 'normal' RP's. You may run into Inter-Digit timeout issue with the '!'. If so, create multiple TP's that match your dialing patterns.
Truthfully, I haven't done this in this manner. I have used a similar method to block Internal CallerID from Executive's only in reverse. I sent their calls through a Translation Pattern and manipulated the CallID in the TP. But I don't see why it wouldn't work.

 

[jerake75]

I have Route Patterns (not Translation Patterns) set up like pndscm describes; it works great.

Here's an example of my setup:

- Route Pattern of *67.1XXXXXXXXXX in DISTOutPrivatePT
- Under Calling Party Transformations on the Route Pattern listed above, I have Calling Line ID Presentation and Calling Name Presentation set to the value of Restricted.


However, if you don't want your callers to have to dial *67 every time they need to make an outside call, you could do this:

- Make a Route Pattern of 9.1XXXXXXXXXX (whatever your long distance and local Route Patterns are), and place them into a separate partition, like IntAuditsNoCLIDPT.
- Set the Calling Line ID Presentation and Calling Name Presentation fields to the value of Restricted on each of the those Route Patterns.
- Put your IntAuditsNoCLIDPT into a Calling Search Space (say, InternalAuditsCSS).
- Assign that CSS to those select phones you need to.

Hope this helps -

TMH