Adding A Co, Fx, Or Wats Trunk Group - Avaya Communication Manager Administrator's Manual

Managing Trunks

Adding a CO, FX, or WATS Trunk Group

Basic administration for Central Office (CO), Foreign Exchange (FX), and WATS trunk groups is
identical, so we've combined instructions for all 3 in the following procedure. In most cases,
Avaya recommends leaving the default settings in fields that aren't specifically mentioned in the
following instructions. Your Avaya representative or network service provider can give you more
information. Your settings in the following fields must match your provider's settings:
Direction
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Comm Type
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Trunk Type
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CAUTION:
Use the list above as a starting point and talk to your service provider. Depending
CAUTION:
on your particular application, you may need to coordinate additional
administration with your service provider.
Before you start
Before you can administer any trunk group, you must have one or more circuit packs of the
correct type with enough open ports to handle the number of trunks you need to add. To find out
what circuit packs you need, see the Hardware Guide for Avaya Communication Manager,
555-245-207.
Instructions
As an example, we will set up a two-way CO trunk group that carries voice and voice-grade data
only. Incoming calls terminate to an attendant during business hours and to a night service
destination the rest of the time
To add the new CO trunk-group:
1. Type add trunk-group next and press Enter.
The Trunk Group
number to this group. In our example, we're adding trunk group 5.
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screen appears. The system assigns the next available trunk group