Lucent Technologies CentreVu Call Management System Release 3 Version 5 Manual

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Trunks Required Report4-9
Prerequisite 
System 
Administration
4
You must have write permission for the Forecast subsystem.
Trunks Required 
Input Window
4
To run the Trunks Required Forecast, you must complete the Trunks 
Required Input window (Figure 4-3
).
Figure 4-3:  Trunks Required Input Window
Field Descriptions4Trunk blocking probability:
Enter a number from 1 to 100. This number tells 
CentreVu CMS, as a 
percentage of time,...

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Gradations (y/n):
Enter a y if you want only gradations of trunk quantities listed in the 
report. Enter an n if you want to list every possible quantity of trunks, as 
specified in the Number of trunks: field.
Report destination (Select one):
Enter an x next to Terminal, Printer, or File.
lTerminal is the default destination.
lIf you selected Printer and want to use a printer other than your 
default...

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Trunks Required 
Report Example
4
A description of each report item follows the report example in the Trunks 
Required Forecast Report Description table.
Figure 4-4:  Trunks Required Report Example
Table 4-2:  Trunks Required Report Description
Report Heading What It Means
% Trunk Blocking 
ProbabilityThe percentage of time, specified on the Trunks Required Input window, 
that calls will be blocked because...

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  Trunk Performance Report CentreVu CMS R3V5 Forecast  585-215-825
General Information5-1
5 Trunk Performance Report
General Information5
The Trunk Performance report estimates, at the busiest intervals in a 
specified range of historical dates, what the usage rate and blocking 
percentages were for the selected trunk group(s).
The report also tells you, given the objective blocking percentage(s) specified 
in the Trunk Group Profile window, how many trunks the trunk group(s) would 
have needed during...

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General Information5-2
If a row in the report contains all zeros except for Objective Blocking, then 
there was no data found in the forecast trunk group tables between the 
Start date (mm/dd/yy or -n: and the Stop date (mm/dd/yy 
or -n: field to make a calculation on.
Things to Know 
About Report 
Data
5
lCentreVu™  CMS finds the number of trunks each trunk group had 
on the stop date of the report time period. 
CentreVu CMS then...

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General Information5-3
Prerequisite 
System 
Administration
5
lYou must have previously defined a Trunk Group Profile for each 
trunk group in the report.
lThe Forecast Manager must have collected data for the days in the 
reporting period. If not, you may manually run the Forecast Manager 
to collect data for those days, providing that the data is still in the 
historical database. 

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Trunk Performance Input Window5-4
Trunk Performance Input Window5
To run a Trunk Performance Report, you must complete the Trunk 
Performance Input window (Figure 5-2
).
Figure 5-2:  Trunk Performance Input Window
Field Descriptions5Start date (mm/dd/yy or -n:
Enter a past date as a relative day (for example, -2 means 2 days ago) or 
in mm/dd/yy format. This is the first date in the time period for which 
CentreVu CMS will check call...

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Trunk Performance Input Window5-5
switch) or frequent trunk failures. This allows consideration of data that 
would not normally be found in a busy interval since some trunks were 
not working or data was not being collected for some portion of the 
interval.
Report destination (Select one:
Enter an x next to Terminal, Printer, or File.
lTerminal is the default destination.
lIf you selected Printer and want to use a printer other than...

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Trunk Performance Report Example5-6
Trunk Performance Report Example5
A description of each report item follows the report example in the Trunk 
Performance Report Description table.
Figure 5-3:  Trunk Performance Report Example