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Cisco Call Manager Express: Ringing multiple phones when certain number is called

Asked by: amigan_99

I want a few phones to all ring at once if number associated with a certain FXO port is called.  What is this feature called and can you point me to its configuration?  Thanks.

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Answers

 

by: wingateslPosted on 2009-06-19 at 09:23:02ID: 24667768

Connection plar <number> under the FXO port

either set the number to a DN assigned to all phones or to a hunt group pilot number

 

by: The_WarlockPosted on 2009-06-19 at 10:02:53ID: 24668106

ephone-hunt

 

by: amigan_99Posted on 2009-06-19 at 10:52:02ID: 24668519

ephone-hunt sounds like it could be right.  But I see modes Sequential mode, peer mode and longest idle. How to get say three phones to all ring at once?

 

by: ajkhalifaPosted on 2009-06-19 at 13:33:05ID: 24669771

ephone-hunt dose not support broadcast algorithm so if you need all the phones to ring use voice hunt-group parallel.

 

by: amigan_99Posted on 2009-06-19 at 13:46:05ID: 24669896

Thanks for the thought on hunt-group parallel.  That's definitely on the right track.  But it looks limited to SIP phones in CME earlier than 4.3.

 

by: ajkhalifaPosted on 2009-06-19 at 13:53:37ID: 24669963

yes i think  so.

 

by: amigan_99Posted on 2009-06-19 at 14:04:30ID: 24670052

Elsewhere I am reading I might be able to accomplish this wish a "shared line".  That would be nice if I didn't have to upgrade the CME.

 

by: ajkhalifaPosted on 2009-06-19 at 14:21:36ID: 24670178

yes shared line will work with you just use overlay buttons

 

by: ludo_friendPosted on 2009-06-19 at 19:38:09ID: 24671629

easiest way....

voice hunt-group parallel



i.e.
voice hunt-group 99 parallel
 pilot 100  !-- "dn" of the hunt group
 timeout 90 !-- how long do you want to ring before giving up
 list 110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117 !-- which numbers do you want to ring
 final 101 ! -- where to send the call after the timeout has lapsed.
!


 

by: ludo_friendPosted on 2009-06-19 at 19:41:38ID: 24671645

^^ ah sorry... didn't read your version being CME 4.3

theres a nasty way of doing it... using blast.tcl

http://pbevila.fastmail.fm/public/bcast.tcl

# application
#  service bcast flash:/IVR/bcast.tcl
#   param destinations 201,202,203
#
# dial-peer voice 100 pots
#  description broadcast hunt-group
#  service bcast
#  incoming called-number 5551234

 

by: cordeosPosted on 2009-06-20 at 02:06:09ID: 24672991

here is how we get around the glaring miss by Cisco to implement a broadcast huntgroup in the CME system...

1) setup one dummy line each for however many simultaneous calls to the main dail-in number you want to be able to answer (i.e. if you want 6 phones to ring, but only expect a maximum of 3 simultaneous calls on the main number, then create 3 dummy lines -- less is better).
2) create a sequential hunt group pilot line as the main number inbound from the FXO and plar the FXO to this number
3) on each of the phones you want to ring, create an OVERLAY button line, overlaying all three dummy lines on the one phone line.  If you want a single phone to be able to answer multiple calls to the main number, create a second, or third overlay button line.

Essentially, this is still a sequential hunt group, but since the lines on each phone are set to all three, as the hunt group goes through the sequence, all phones still ring for each sequential line.

Hope this helps.

 

by: cordeosPosted on 2009-07-01 at 01:03:00ID: 24752312

Did you try the dummy line setup?

 

by: amigan_99Posted on 2009-09-15 at 09:34:02ID: 31594432

Cool - thank-you for the tip on the dummy line setup.

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