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585–210–910 Comcode 108501743 Issue 1 November 1999 CentreVu® CMS Administration
Copyright © 1999 Lucent Technologies. All Rights Reserved. This material is protected by the copyright laws of the United States and other countries. It may not be reproduced, distributed, or altered in any fashion by any entity (either internal or external to Lucent Technologies), except in accordance with applicable agreements, contracts or licensing, without the express written consent of the Customer Training and Information Products organization and the business management owner of the material.Product Development Manager Product Development Manager 1 888-LTINFO6 Notice Every effort was made to ensure that the information in this book was complete and accurate at the time of printing. However, information is subject to change. Mandatory Customer InformationMandatory customer information European Union declaration of conformity Lucent Technologies Business Communications Systems declares that the equipment specified in this document conforms to the referenced European Union (EU) Directives and Harmonized Standards listed below: EMC Directive89/336/EEC Low Voltage Directive 73/23/EEC. The “CE” mark affixed to the equipment means that it conforms to the above Directives. Heritage statement Lucent Technologies—formed as a result of AT&Ts planned restructuring—designs, builds, and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communication systems and software, consumer and business telephone systems, and microelectronics components. The world- renowned Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm for the company. Security statementYour responsibility for your systems security Toll fraud is the unauthorized use of your telecommunications system by an unauthorized party, for example, persons other than your companys employees, agents, subcontractors, or persons working on your companys behalf. Note that there may be a risk of toll fraud associated with your telecommunications system and, if toll fraud occurs, it can result in substantial additional charges for your telecommunications services.You and your system manager are responsible for the security of your system, such as programming and configuring your equipment to prevent unauthorized use. The system manager is also responsible for reading all installation, instruction, and system administration documents provided with this product in order to fully understand the features that can introduce risk of toll fraud and the steps that can be taken to reduce that risk. Lucent Technologies does not warrant that this product is immune from or will prevent unauthorized use of common-carrier telecommunication services or facilities accessed through or connected to it. Lucent Technologies will not be responsible for any charges that result from such unauthorized use. Trademarks SunSun Microsystems, Inc. Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc.the Sun LogoSun Microsystems, Inc. Solaris Sun Microsystems, Inc. Solstice DiskSuite Sun Microsystems, Inc. SunLink Sun Microsystems, Inc.UltraSun Microsystems, Inc.SPARC. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. SPARC International, Inc.CentreVu ÒDEFINITYÒINTELIntel CorporationPentiumIntel CorporationMicrosoftMicrosoft CorporationMSMicrosoft CorporationMS- DOSMicrosoft CorporationWindows Microsoft CorporationWindows NTMicrosoft Corporation Ordering informationOrdering information For information about ordering, see About this information product. Support telephone numbers Technical Support Telephone NumberLucent Technologies National Customer Care Center Lucent Technologies provides a telephone number for you to use to report problems or to ask questions about your call center. The support telephone number for customers in the U.S.A. and Canada is 1-800-242-2121. For technical support, customers outside the United States should call their Lucent Technologies Representative or Distributor. Information Product Support Telephone Number Call the Lucent Technologies National Customer Care Center. Lucent technologies fraud intervention If you suspect that you are being victimized by toll fraud and you need technical support or assistance, call Technical Service Center Toll Fraud Intervention Hotline at 1-800-643-2353. Developed by Lucent Technologies Customer Training and Information Products.This document was prepared by the Global Learning Solutions organization, Lucent Technologies, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Contents CentreVu CMS Administration iii Contents About this information product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Chapter 1: Task: startup and exit Starting CentreVu Supervisor on Windows 98 or NT. . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Logging into CentreVu CMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Adding new servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7 Choosing or changing your password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9 Closing CentreVu Supervisor windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10 Logging out of CentreVu CMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11 Exiting CentreVu Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12 Task reference: general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13 Task reference: CentreVu CMS specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16 Task reference: switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-18 Task reference: terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-19 Task reference: printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-20 Task reference: CentreVu CMS suppor t services . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-21 Task reference: using the Helpline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-22 Task reference: CentreVu CMS training classes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-23 Chapter 2: Navigating CentreVu® Supervisor Using the controller window before you log into the server . . . . . . . . 2-2 Using the controller window after you log into the server . . . . . . . . . 2-4 Using the features common to all CentreVu Supervisor windows . . . . . 2-9 Using the selector windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10 Using the input windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12 Using the browse buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16 Using the history list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19 Task reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20 Chapter 3: Task: naming your call center entities in the Dictionary Adding, deleting, or changing ACDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6 Creating or copying agent groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8 Viewing, listing, adding, or deleting agents in an agent group . . . . . . . 3-11 Changing agent string values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16 Viewing, adding, or changing announcement synonyms . . . . . . . . . 3-21 Viewing, adding, deleting, or changing AUX reason code names . . . . . . 3-23 Viewing, adding, or creating calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-26 Viewing, adding, deleting, or changing call work codes . . . . . . . . . . 3-29 Adding constants to the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-31 Defining your own database items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33
Contents CentreVu CMS Administration iv Changing generic string values synonyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-35 Searching the Dictionary globally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-36 Viewing, adding, deleting, or changing location IDs . . . . . . . . . . . 3-38 Viewing, adding, or changing login ID names . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-40 Viewing, adding, or changing logout reason code names . . . . . . . . . 3-43 Viewing or changing split/skill string values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-46 Viewing, adding, deleting, or changing split/skill names . . . . . . . . . 3-49 Viewing CentreVu CMS database items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-52 Viewing, adding, deleting, or changing trunk group names . . . . . . . . 3-54 Viewing or changing trunk string values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-56 Viewing, adding, deleting, or changing VDN names . . . . . . . . . . . 3-60 Viewing, adding, deleting, or changing vector names . . . . . . . . . . 3-63 Running Dictionary reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-65 Chapter 4: Task: running, printing, exiting, and restarting a report Running a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 Printing a report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 Setting up a report page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4 Exiting and restarting a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6 Task reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7 Chapter 5: Task: automating your activities with scripting Using Save as Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2 Scripting reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6 Scripting the export of report output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8 Scripting a report saved as HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10 Scripting windows and actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12 Task reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15 Chapter 6: Task: administering call center agents Starting an agent trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3 Listing agents traced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 Changing agent skills and extension split assignments . . . . . . . . . 6-9 Creating or applying an agent template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15 Multi-agent skill change and moving extensions between splits . . . . . . 6-17 Running a split members report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-22 Chapter 7: Task: administering your call center Viewing, adding, or deleting call work codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3 Changing VDN skill preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6 Adding, deleting, or changing split/skill call profiles . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9 Viewing trunk group assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11 Running a trunk group members report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13 Changing VDN-to-vector assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16 Adding, deleting, or changing VDN call profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19 Running vector configuration reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23 Chapter 8: Task: administering exceptions Changing your exceptions notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
Contents CentreVu CMS Administration v Administering agent exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4 Administering split/skill exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11 Administering trunk group exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-16 Administering VDN exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-20 Administering vector exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-26 Running an agent exceptions report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-30 Running a data collection report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34 Running a malicious call trace report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-36 Running a split/skill exceptions report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-38 Running a trunk group exceptions report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-41 Running a VDN exceptions report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-44 Running a vector exceptions report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-47 Task reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-50 Reference: interactions with other commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-52 Reference: real-time exceptions log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-54 Task reference: repor ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-56 Chapter 9: Task: assigning user permissions Assigning user data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3 Viewing, assigning, deleting, or changing ACD access. . . . . . . . . . 9-9 Viewing, assigning, deleting, or changing feature access . . . . . . . . . 9-12 Viewing, assigning, or changing main menu addition access . . . . . . . 9-15 Viewing, assigning, deleting, or changing split/skill access . . . . . . . . 9-17 Viewing, assigning, deleting, or changing trunk group access . . . . . . . 9-20 Viewing, assigning, deleting, or changing vector access . . . . . . . . . 9-23 Viewing, assigning, deleting, or changing VDN access. . . . . . . . . . 9-25 Chapter 10: Task: viewing and changing system setup values Turning data collection on and off for real ACDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-3 Changing the CentreVu CMS state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-5 Setting up a pseudo-ACD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8 Loading pseudo-ACD data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12 Specifying how CentreVu CMS stores data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-17 Archiving data in the historical database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-20 Starting or stopping external applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-23 Allocating storage space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-25 Steps to set field values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-27 Migrating CentreVu CMS data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-33 Setting storage intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-36 Viewing switch setup data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-42 Chapter 11: Task: maintaining CentreVu® CMS Viewing ACD status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-3 Viewing archiving status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7 Running a CMSADM file system backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-9 Running a maintenance backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-13 Assigning a name and description to a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18 Monitoring connection status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-20 Administering a printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-23
Contents CentreVu CMS Administration vi Running a restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-26 Using the maintenance error log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-31 Task reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-35 Reference: full backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-36 Reference: incremental backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-37 Reference: complex backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-39 Reference: recovery kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-41 Reference: labeling the backup volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-43 Reference: results of daily, weekly, and monthly data summaries . . . . . 11-45 Chapter 12: Task: learning and using Solaris Logging into Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2 Using Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-3 Viewing a Solaris system file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-4 Changing a users password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5 Returning to CentreVu CMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-6 Administering a printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-7 Stopping or starting the Scheduler utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-10 Restore files in Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-11 Chapter 13: Task: using timetables and shortcuts Creating and scheduling a timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-3 Creating a timetable without scheduling it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-6 Copying a timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-9 Deleting a timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-11 Editing a timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-12 Adding tasks to a timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-13 Copying timetable tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-16 Deleting tasks from a timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-18 Editing a timetable globally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-20 Changing timetable tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-23 Listing all the timetables in your database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-25 Using timetables with the system clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-26 Creating a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-28 Running a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-30 Copying a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-31 Deleting a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-33 Editing a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-34 Adding tasks to a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-35 Copying shortcut tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-37 Deleting tasks from a shortcut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-39 Changing shortcut tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-40 Task Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-42 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GL-1 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IN-1
About this information product CentreVu CMS Administration vii About this information product PurposeIf you are a CentreVu® CMS administrator with access to all parts of CentreVu CMS, this information product tells you what you need to know to administer your call center. For split/skill supervisors with limited access to CentreVu CMS, this information product will also be helpful. This information product specifically addresses the DEFINITY® Enterprise Communications Server (ECS) functionality of CentreVu CMS. If you are implementing CentreVu CMS R3V8 for the first time, you may have DEFINITY ECS Release 8. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of CentreVu CMS, you may have an earlier ECS or an earlier Generic 3 (G3) switch release. Reason for reissueThis information product is a task-based guide to call center administration. The ACD basics appendix has been moved to the DEFINITY® ECS R8 Guide to ACD Call Centers 555-233-503 . The vectoring EAS appendix has been moved to the DEFINITY ECS R8 Vectoring and EAS Guide 555-230-521. This information product documents version 8 of CentreVu Supervisor. DEFINITY/G2 information has been removed throughout.
About this information product CentreVu CMS Administration viii Safety labelsActions or inactions that may cause difficulties are labeled as follows: Caution CAUTION Indicates that failure to take or avoid a specified action could result in loss of data. Wa rning WARNING Indicates that failure to take or avoid a specified action could result in physical harm to the operator or the equipment. How to use this information productUse this overview map to find the information you need to administer your CentreVu CMS call center. To learn about... See this task... Accessing and using CentreVu CMSStartup and exit The CentreVu Supervisor user interfaceNavigating CentreVu Supervisor Using the Dictionary Naming your call center entities in the Dictionary Reports and how to use them Running, printing, exiting, and restarting a report What you can do with scripting Automate your activities with scripting Changing agent splits/skills, creating agent templates, moving extensions between splits, and using agent traceAdministering your call center
About this information product CentreVu CMS Administration ix Conventions usedThe following conventions are used in this information product. Product release DEFINITY Enterprise Communications Server is called “ECS” or “switch”. Unless otherwise noted, the term ECS includes Releases 6, 7, and 8. The functionality of earlier switch releases is noted if it differs from that of Releases 6 through 8. Document number Lucent publication titles are followed by their document number. For example, see CentreVu Supervisor Release 8 Reports 585-210-929. Adding or deleting call work codes and split/skill call profiles, changing VDN skill preferences, viewing trunk group assignments, changing VDN call profiles, and other call center activitiesAdministering your call center To learn about... See this task... Defining agents, split/skill, trunk group, VDN, and vector exceptions, and running exceptions reportsAdministering exceptions Kinds of permissions; how and when to assign themAssigning user permissions Changing CentreVu CMS state, allocating storage space, specifying storage intervals, and other system setup activitiesViewing and changing system setup values Understanding maintenance: backups, restores, and backup strategy; the maintenance error log; backup volumes and labelingMaintaining CentreVu CMS The Solaris operating system and how to use itLearning and using Solaris How timetables and shortcuts streamline your activitiesUsing timetables and shortcuts
About this information product CentreVu CMS Administration x Typography Courier font designates input and output. • Input is something you type into the user interface. For example, Type x next to Printer, Terminal, or File. • Output is a character, word, or phrase that the system generates. For example, Please wait for initialization ..... Italic font highlights references to file names and directories. For example, / cms. Related documentationThe following information may also be helpful: • CentreVu CMS R3V5 Custom Reports585-215-822 •CentreVu CMS R3V5 Forecast585-215-825 • CentreVu Supervisor Release 8 Reports 585-210-929 •CentreVu CMS R3V8 Open Database Connectivity585-210- 911 •Lucent Call Center Release 8 Change Description 585-210- 925 • CentreVu CMS R3V8 External Call History Interface 585- 210-912 •CentreVu Advocate Release 8 User Guide585-210-927 •CentreVu Supervisor Release 8 Installation and Getting Started 585-215-860 •CentreVu CMS R3V8 Sun Microsystems, Inc.SunÒ Upgrades and Migrations 585-210-913 • CentreVu CMS Sun Microsystems, Inc.Sun Software Installation and Maintenance 585-215-866 •Lucent Call Center Documentation CD-ROM585-210-926 •CentreVu CMS R3V8 Hardware Maintenance and Troubleshooting585-210-919