Summary: looking for a way to use ASA to obtain vector detail... read on.
Avaya Site Administration (ASA) provides the ability to create a document repository containing a lot of detail about your Avaya voice server (e.g. Definity). ASA provides the ability to create and schedule reports and exports of voice server configuration (i.e. stations, agent id's, trunk group detail, and much more). Any display or list command you can enter manually on the command line can be placed in an ASA scheduled report. FYI: "reports" are good records that facilitate manual recovery of lost or corrupt data; "export" files may be imported via ASA for faster recovery.
Obtaining detailed vector information remains problematic as there is no single command that provides this detail. You can create a separate ASA report and schedule entry for each vector using the "display vector <#>" command, but this takes a lot of manual effort and time, especially for systems with hundreds of vectors.
Tip: use a keyboard/mouse macro application to store the mouse movements and keyboard strokes to create an ASA report that is exported to a file and scheduled on a weekly basis at the hour of your choosing (modify the schedule to fit your needs). Edit the macro to loop through X times, where X = the number of vectors you have. You can use a variable in the macro as part of the display command and report name, thus creating separate files of the format "Vector XXX" where XXX is the current vector number. You can be even more creative by left padding XXX with zeros, thus creating a sortable file list.
I used Macro Express ( and it works like charm. Once you have the process down, increase the speed of the macro, go to lunch, and you'll come back to a report list created in ASA for all your vectors. Note: you can also edit the macro and decrease the delays between keystrokes and mouse movement delays.
Want to run the ASA reports on demand? Simply highlight them all in ASA, right click, and choose "Run Now". Only need them weekly? Let them run as defined in your macro.
This is a very useful process that I will use on each voice server throughout our organization. Hope it's helpful to you!
Avaya Site Administration (ASA) provides the ability to create a document repository containing a lot of detail about your Avaya voice server (e.g. Definity). ASA provides the ability to create and schedule reports and exports of voice server configuration (i.e. stations, agent id's, trunk group detail, and much more). Any display or list command you can enter manually on the command line can be placed in an ASA scheduled report. FYI: "reports" are good records that facilitate manual recovery of lost or corrupt data; "export" files may be imported via ASA for faster recovery.
Obtaining detailed vector information remains problematic as there is no single command that provides this detail. You can create a separate ASA report and schedule entry for each vector using the "display vector <#>" command, but this takes a lot of manual effort and time, especially for systems with hundreds of vectors.
Tip: use a keyboard/mouse macro application to store the mouse movements and keyboard strokes to create an ASA report that is exported to a file and scheduled on a weekly basis at the hour of your choosing (modify the schedule to fit your needs). Edit the macro to loop through X times, where X = the number of vectors you have. You can use a variable in the macro as part of the display command and report name, thus creating separate files of the format "Vector XXX" where XXX is the current vector number. You can be even more creative by left padding XXX with zeros, thus creating a sortable file list.
I used Macro Express ( and it works like charm. Once you have the process down, increase the speed of the macro, go to lunch, and you'll come back to a report list created in ASA for all your vectors. Note: you can also edit the macro and decrease the delays between keystrokes and mouse movement delays.
Want to run the ASA reports on demand? Simply highlight them all in ASA, right click, and choose "Run Now". Only need them weekly? Let them run as defined in your macro.
This is a very useful process that I will use on each voice server throughout our organization. Hope it's helpful to you!